Qualitative Health Research - Softcover

M. Morse, Janice

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0803947755 ISBN 13: 9780803947757

Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc, 1992

Synopsis

A compilation of major articles concerned with qualitative health research, this volume explores research assumptions, research synthesis, phenomenology, ethnography, ethnoscience, grounded theory and semi-structured questionnaires.

All the articles relate aspects of qualitative research to specific health care concerns such as: patients leaving a psychiatric hospital, the menopause and conditions such as asthma. Nursing theories of caring and commitment are also considered.

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About the Author

Janice M. Morse, PhD (Nurs), PhD (Anthro), FAAN is a professor and Presidential Endowed Chair at the University of Utah College of Nursing, and Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta, Canada., from 1991-1996, she also held a position as professor at The Pennsylvania State University. From 1997-2007, she was the founding Director and Scientific Director of the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology, University of Alberta, founding editor for the International Journal of Qualitative Methods, and Editor of the Qual Press monograph series. She remains the founding editor for Qualitative Health Research, (now in Volume 2, Sage1), is currently editor for the monograph series Developing Qualitative Inquiry, and The Essentials of Qualitative Inquiry (Left Coast Press). Her research programs are in the areas of suffering and comforting, preventing patient falls, and developing qualitative methods. In 2011, she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement in Qualitative Inquiry from the International Center for Qualitative Inquiry, was an inaugural inductee into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame (2010), the 5th recipient of the Episteme Award (also Sigma Theta Tau). She received awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Newcastle (Australia) and Athabasca University (Canada). She is the author of 460 articles and chapters and 19 books on qualitative research methods, suffering, comforting and patient falls.

Synopsis

Intended as a text for courses in the subject, this collection of articles treats phenomenology, ethnography, ethnoscience, grounded theory, and semistructured questionnaires. Among the topics: the experience and cultural context of breastfeeding, birthing pain, asthma, the concept of disease, and leaving the psychiatric hospital. The editor provid

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications, Inc
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0803947755
• ISBN 13: 9780803947757
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 392