Immy Holloway & Dawn Freshwater 
Narrative Research in Nursing [PDF ebook] 

Section 1: The nature of narratives.
Chapter 1 What is a narrative?.
Chapter 2 The appropriateness of narratives for nursing and
health care.
Chapter 3 Social construction, postmodernism and narrative
identity.
Chapter 4 Rigour in narrative research.
Section 2: Strategies and procedures in narrative research.
Chapter 5 The art of sampling.
Chapter 6 Data collection in narrative research.
Chapter 7 Narrative analysis: Contextualising narratives.
Chapter 8 Presenting the findings.
Section 3: Quality and authenticity in narrative research.
Chapter 9 Narrative and ethics.
Chapter 10 Critical review and problems.
Chapter 11 The evaluation of narrative research reports and
articles.
Chapter 12 Publication and dissemination.
Section 4: The practicalities of narrative research.
Chapter 13 The skills of the narrative researcher.
Chapter 14 Transcribing narrative data.
Chapter 15 Writing a proposal for narrative research nursing

Professor Immy Holloway is a sociologist of health and illness and Reader in the Institute of Health and Community Studies at Bournemouth University. Professor Dawn Freshwater is Reader in Primary Care in the Institute of Health and Community Studies, Bournemouth University.