TY  - BOOK
AU  - Holloway,Immy
TI  - Qualitative research in health care
SN  - 0335212948 (hb)
AV  - RA440.85.Q35 2005 
PY  - 2005///
CY  - Maidenhead, England
PB  - Open University Press
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Research
KW  - Methodology
KW  - Qualitative research
KW  - Health Services Research
KW  - methods
KW  - Focus Groups
KW  - Interviews
KW  - Quality Assurance, Health Care
KW  - Research Design
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; CONTENTS
Introduction: Aim and readership
Part 1: Starting out
1. MARK AVIS
Is there an epistemology for qualitative research? --
2. RON IPHOFEN
Ethical issues in qualitative health research --
Part 2: Collecting data
3. M. CLARE TAYLOR
Interviewing --
4. JENNY KITZINGER
Focus group research: using group dynamics to explore perceptions, experiences and understandings --
5. STEPHEN WALLACE
Observing method: recognizing the significance of belief, discipline, position and documentation in observational studies --
Part 3: Choosing an approach
6. IMMY HOLLOWAY AND LES TODRES
The status of method: flexibility, consistency and coherence --
7. LES TODRES
Clarifying the life-world: descriptive phenomenology --
8. FRANCES RAPPORT
Hermeneutic phenomenology: the science of interpretation of texts --
9. ROSALIND BLUFF
Grounded theory: the methodology --
10. SIOBHAN SHARKEY AND JOHN AGGERAARD LARSEN
Ethnographic exploration: participation and meaning in everyday life --
11. ANDREW C. SPARKES
Narrative analysis: exploring the whats and hows of personal stories --
12. DAWN FRESHWATER
Action research for changing and improving practice --
13. KATHLEEN GALVIN
Navigating a qualitative course in programme evaluation --
14. DEBBIE KRALIK
Engaging feminist thought in research: a participatory approach --
15. IMMY HOLLOWAY
Qualitative writing
Conclusion: after completion
N2  - This edited text on qualitative research methods in health is aimed at a multi-professional, multi-disciplinary audience. It explains qualitative methods applied specifically to health care research and draws extensively on European examples
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/ecip066/2006000963.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0802/2006000963-b.html
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0802/2006000963-d.html
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