Full Description
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.
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
