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Informationen zum Autor Joanna Latimer is Professor of Sociology at Cardiff University School of Social Sciences, and Professor in the ESRC Centre for the Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics. She has been researching medical knowledge and practice ethnographically for 30 years. Klappentext Nurses are faced with the need for practice grounded in research-based evidence. Research methodologies must be theoretically sound but must also take into account the unique challenges of the socio-political conditions under which nurses practice. This collection presents up-to-the-minute qualitative research methodologies creatively developed within nursing. Written by authors at the forefront of their fields, the book is intended to enable people to research critical issues for nursing practice and health care. Drawing on empirical data, each chapter introduces a particular contemporary approach, examines the literature in it field, discussed its relevance for nursing and health care and explains what claims to knowledge can be made. An advanced-level research book specifically for postgraduate nurses Contributions from international authors at the forefront of nursing academia Explains the new, more complex research methodologies Offers a bridge between nursing and social science Zusammenfassung Nurses are faced with the need for practice grounded in research-based evidence. This book presents qualitative research methodologies creatively developed within nursing. It enables people to research critical issues for nursing practice and health care. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface. List of Contributors. 1. Introducing Fields, Selves, Stories, Texts and Materials. 2. Where Do We Stand in Relation to the Data? Being Reflexive About Reflexivity in Health Care Evaluation. 3. Moving Nursing Practice: Integrating Theory and Method. 4. Participative Observation: Using the Subject Body to Understand Nursing Practice. 5. Self and Others: The Rigour and Ethics of Insider Ethnography. 6. Researching Story and Narrative in Nursing: An Object-Relations Approach. 7. Rational Solutions and Unreliable Narrators: Content, Structure and Voice in Narrative Research. 8. Discourse Analysis, Ideology and Professional Practice. 9. Words Are Powerful Tools: Discourse Analytic Explanations of Nursing Practice. 10. Taking Things Seriously: Studying the Material Culture of Nursing. 11. A History of Small Things. 12. Studying The Women in White. Epilogue. Index ...
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Preface.
List of Contributors.
1. Introducing Fields, Selves, Stories, Texts and Materials.
2. Where Do We Stand in Relation to the Data? Being ReflexiveAbout Reflexivity in Health Care Evaluation.
3. Moving Nursing Practice: Integrating Theory and Method.
4. Participative Observation: Using the Subject Body toUnderstand Nursing Practice.
5. Self and Others: The Rigour and Ethics of InsiderEthnography.
6. Researching Story and Narrative in Nursing: AnObject-Relations Approach.
7. Rational Solutions and Unreliable Narrators: Content,Structure and Voice in Narrative Research.
8. Discourse Analysis, Ideology and Professional Practice.
9. Words Are Powerful Tools: Discourse Analytic Explanations ofNursing Practice.
10. Taking Things Seriously: Studying the Material Culture ofNursing.
11. A History of Small Things.
12. Studying The Women in White.
Epilogue.
Index
