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The SAGE Handbook of Qualitative Methods in Health Research

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August 2010 | 786 pages | SAGE Publications Ltd
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The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Methods in Health Research is a comprehensive and authoritative source on qualitative research methods.

The Handbook compiles accessible yet vigorous academic contributions by respected academics from the fast-growing field of qualitative methods in health research and consists of:

- A series of case studies in the ways in which qualitative methods have contributed to the development of thinking in fields relevant to policy and practice in health care.

- A section examining the main theoretical sources drawn on by qualitative researchers.

- A section on specific techniques for the collection of data.

- A section exploring issues relevant to the strategic place of qualitative research in health care environments.

The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Methods in Health Research is an invaluable source of reference for all students, researchers and practitioners with a background in the health professions or health sciences.

 
Introduction
 
PART ONE: CONTRIBUTIONS OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
Stefan Timmermans
There's More to Dying Than Death: Qualitative Research on the End-of-Life
Arthur W. Frank, Michael K. Corman, Jessica A. Gish and Paul Lawton
Healer-Patient Interaction: New Mediations in Clinical Relationships
Johanne Collin
Qualitative Contributions to the Study of Health Professions and Their Work
Carol A. Caronna
Why Use Qualitative Methods to Study Health-Care Organizations? Insights from Multilevel Case Studies
Sirpa Wrede
How Country Matters: Studying Health Policy in a Comparative Perspective
Gareth Williams and Eva Elliott
Exploring Social Inequalities in Health: The Importance of Thinking Qualitatively
 
PART TWO: THEORY
Mita Giacomini
Theory Matters in Qualitative Health Research
Rebecca Prentice
Ethnographic Approaches to Health and Development Research: The Contributions of Anthropology
Dorothy Pawluch and Elena Neiterman
What Is Grounded Theory and Where Does It Come from?
Helen Malson
Qualitative Methods from Psychology
Timothy Halkowski and Virginia Teas Gill
Conversation Analysis and Ethnomethodology: The Centrality of Interaction
Carol L. McWilliam
Phenomenology
Karen Staniland
Studying Organizations: The Revival of Institutionalism
Claire Hooker
History and Social Change in Health and Medicine
 
PART THREE: COLLECTING AND ANALYZING DATA
Jennie Popay and Sara Mallinson
Qualitative Research Review and Synthesis
Susan E. Kelly
Qualitative Interviewing Techniques and Styles
Rosaline S. Barbour
Focus Groups
Davina Allen
Fieldwork and Participant Observation
Ruth Parry
Video-Based Conversation Analysis
Srikant Sarangi
Practising Discourse Analysis in Healthcare Settings
Lindsay Prior
Documents in Health Research
Louise Potvin, Sherri L. Bisset and Leah Walz
Participatory Action Research: Theoretical Perspectives on the Challenges of Researching Action
Isobel MacPherson and Linda McKie
Qualitative Research in Programme Evaluation
Elizabeth Ettore
Auto-Ethnography: Making Sense of Personal Illness Journeys
Marie L. Campbell
Institutional Ethnography
Susan E. Bell
Visual Methods for Collecting and Analysing Data
Clive Seale and Jonathan Charteris-Black
Keyword Analysis: A New Tool for Qualitative Research
 
PART FOUR: ISSUES IN QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH
Kath M. Melia
Recognizing Quality in Qualitative Research
Alicia O'Cathain
Mixed Methods Involving Qualitative Research
Laura Stark and Adam Hedgecoe
A Practical Guide to Research Ethics
Julia Abelson
Using Qualitative Research Methods to Inform Health Policy: The Case of Public Deliberation
Carine Vassy and Richard Keller
Cross National Qualitative Health Research
 
PART FIVE: APPLYING QUALITATIVE METHODS
Kereen Reiger and Pranee Liamputtong
Researching Reproduction Qualitatively: Intersections of Personal and Political
Tiago Moreira and Tim Rapley
Understanding the Shaping, Incorporation and Co-Ordination of Health Technologies through Qualitative Research
Dave Holmes, Patrick O'Byrne and Denise Gastaldo
Transgressive Pleasures: Undertaking Qualitative Research in the Radsex Domain
Ilina Singh and Sinead Keenan
The Challenges and Opportunities of Qualitative Health Research with Children
Ruth Pinder
The Dilemmas of Advocacy: The Paradox of Giving in Disability Research
Phil Brown
Qualitative Approaches for Studying Environmental Health

A very good resource for qualitative studies, too advanced though for my students.

Dr Theofanis Fotis
School of Nursing and Midwifery, Brighton University
June 6, 2013
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I will recommend this text to students searching for guidance on beginning their qualitative research study and new to the paradigm. It will also be very useful to those looking in more depth at data collection and analysis choices , relevant to their specific study. A very useful text.

Ms Lynda Stobert
Faculty of Health (City South Campus), Birmingham City University
April 26, 2013
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Very well written and informative text. Recommended.

Dr Lisa Newson
School of Psychology, Liverpool John Moores University
April 15, 2013
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Comprehensive text, with extensive additional reading identified

Dr Kay Currie
Health and Community Sciences (Nursing), Glasgow Caledonian University
April 10, 2013
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