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Qualitative Research in Health offers a comprehensive and practical introduction to the main theories and methods of qualitative research in health sciences. It covers the full range of conventional and new qualitative methods including ethnography, phenomenology, grounded theory, biography, memory work, action research, historical research, discourse analysis, postmodern, post-structuralist... Read more
Preface
Part One Theory and Design
1 Qualitative research: an introduction
2 Theory in research: approaches to the use of theoretical perspectives
3 Research design issues
Part Two Techniques of Data Collection
4 Interviewing
5 Observation
Part Three Methodological Approaches
6 Library-based methods
7 Field-based methods
8 Action-based methods
Part Four Interpretation, Analysis and Presentation of Data
9 Interpretation and analysis
10 Computer-assisted analysis
11 Presentation of data
Conclusion
Qualitative research resources
Bibliography
Index
Part One Theory and Design
1 Qualitative research: an introduction
2 Theory in research: approaches to the use of theoretical perspectives
3 Research design issues
Part Two Techniques of Data Collection
4 Interviewing
5 Observation
Part Three Methodological Approaches
6 Library-based methods
7 Field-based methods
8 Action-based methods
Part Four Interpretation, Analysis and Presentation of Data
9 Interpretation and analysis
10 Computer-assisted analysis
11 Presentation of data
Conclusion
Qualitative research resources
Bibliography
Index
Biography
Carol Grbich is Associate Professor in the Faculty of Health Sciences at Flinders University, South Australia. She is the editor of Health in Australia: Sociological concepts and issues and The Australian Journal of Social Research.
