New Qualitative Methodologies in Health and Social Care Research (Paperback)

Introduction: Shifting Sands in Qualitative Methodology 1. Discourse Analysis: Addressing the Communication Strategies of Healthcare Professionals 2. The Turn to a Narrative Knowing of Persons: Minimalist Passive Interviewing Technique and Team Analysis of Narrative Qualitative Data 3. Hermeneutics and Nursing Research 4. Descriptive Phenomenology: Lifeworld as Evidence 5. From the Porter's Point of View: Participant-Observation by the Interpretive Anthropologist in the Hospital 6. Imagework Method and Potential Applications in Health 7. Post Modern Literary Poetics of Experience: A New Form of Aesthetic Enquiry 8. Historiography, Illness and the Interpretation of Fiction 9. Methodology and Practical Application of the Social Action Research Model