New Qualitative Methodologies in Health and Social Care Research

by Rapport; Frances

• ISBN13: 9780415305655
• ISBN10: 0415305659
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2004-08-20
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Research is increasingly important in health and social care, and is becoming central to evidence-based and best practice. This edited volume brings together innovative contributions from a range of health and social care professionals and research scientists who are interested in introducing new approaches to qualitative research into the world of health and social care. The book covers a range of methodologies including discourse analysis, imagework, cut-up technique, minimalist passive interviewing technique and social action research. The histories of these new methodologies are discussed, and the methods and their applicability to practice outlined. The book also explores recent developments and their implications for, and impact on, delivery and good practice evaluation in health and social care, illustrated throughout by examples drawn from clinical and practice settings. New Qualitative Methodologies in Health and Social Care Researchaims to encourage an in-depth appreciation ofthe concept of evidence - what it means, how it is arrived at and the consequences of it being applied - and will: * Enable health and social care professionals, academics and students to learn more about new qualitative methodologies * Broaden understanding of notions of good practice * Encourage new thinking about the application of methodologies to practice This book is important reading for anyone involved in health and social care research, including practitioners, primary care professionals, social scientists and researchers. It will also be invaluable for those teaching and studying health and social care.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	vii
About the contributors	viii
Preface and acknowledgements	xiv
Foreword by Gareth Williams	xvii
Introduction: Shifting sands in qualitative methodology	1	(18)
FRANCES RAPPORT
1 Discourse analysis: addressing the communication strategies of healthcare professionals	19	(16)
LESLEY GRIFFITHS AND GLYN ELWYN
2 The turn to a narrative knowing of persons: minimalist passive interviewing technique and team analysis of narrative qualitative data	35	(20)
KIP JONES
3 Hermeneutics and nursing research	55	(24)
HUGH CHADDERTON
4 Descriptive phenomenology: life-world as evidence	79	(20)
LES TODRES AND IMMY HOLLOWAY
5 From the porter's point of view: participant observation by the interpretive anthropologist in the hospital	99	(24)
NIGEL RAPPORT
6 Imagework method and potential applications in health, social sciences and social care research: journeying with a question	123	(16)
IAIN EDGAR
7 Postmodern literary poetics of experience: a new form of aesthetic enquiry	139	(11)
FRANCIS C. BILEY
8 Historiography, illness and the interpretation of fiction	150	(12)
CHRISTOPHER MAGGS
9 Methodology and practical application of the Social Action Research model	162	(17)
JENNIE FLEMING AND DAVE WARD
Index	179