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Qualitative Research in Health and Illness provides a highly accessible, pragmatic approach to conducting qualitative research in the health fields, including nursing, health studies, public health, medical sociology, and medical anthropology. Targeted toward novice researchers, Jessica Smartt Gullion aims to provide tools to address common scenarios that will arise in professional practice.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Part I: The Foundations of Qualitative Inquiry
- Chapter One: What is Qualitative Research?
- Chapter Two: Research Ethics
- Chapter Three: Study Design
- Chapter Four: Reflexivity and Diffraction
- Part II: Collecting Empirical Materials
- Chapter Five: Interviewing
- Chapter Six: Ethnography
- Chapter Seven: Community-Based Action Research
- Chapter Eight: Medical Narratives/Narrative Interviewing
- Part III: Evaluation and Writing
- Chapter Nine: Thinking with Data
- Chapter Ten: Reporting Results
About the author
Jessica Smartt Gullion, PhD is the Associate Dean of Research for the College of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Sociology at Texas Woman's University. She is an expert on qualitative research methodology. Prior to joining Texas Woman's University, she served as the Chief Epidemiologist for one of the largest health departments in Texas.
Summary
In Qualitative Research in Health and Illness, Dr. Jessica Smartt Gullion leverages two decades of experience as a qualitative methodologist and epidemiologist to provide an in-depth guide on conducting qualitative inquiry in the health fields.
The book will begin with an overview of qualitative research and its applications. After laying down the foundation, Gullion guides students through the process of conducting research. Chapters provide detailed coverage on the formation of a research question, the ethics of a project, different data collection techniques such as interviewing, ethnographic research, and medical narratives, and concludes with strategies for analyzing data and documenting findings. Each chapter will include a number of exemplars of real projects and brief interviews with researchers doing relevant work, separated out as boxes, as well as active learning assignments for professors utilizing flipped classroom models. This book will broaden researchers' perspectives on research methodologies and serve as an important resource to engage students in the research process.
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Although engaging enough to read cover to cover thanks to the real-life examples offered, this book would also make a good research methods textbook that instructors could draw from piecemeal as suited their course needs. Highly recommended.
