The Sage Handbook of Qualitative Methods in Health Research - Softcover

Ivy Bourgeault; Robert Dingwall; Ray De Vries

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1446270432 ISBN 13: 9781446270431

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 2013

Synopsis

A comprehensive and authoritative source, this Handbook compiles accessible yet vigorous academic contributions by respected academics from the fast-growing field of qualitative methods in health research.

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Review:

"The demand for high-quality, evidence-based health care represents a paradigm shift in health research, which this handbook explores. Essays focus on a wide range of topics within qualitative research investigation, including the philosophy of science, chaos theory, bioethics, reliability and validity issues, levels of research, and mixed methods approaches. With this volume, the editors--all internationally recognized experts in the social sciences--offer a valuable educational tool for instructors at either the undergraduate or the graduate level." (S. Williams 2011-03-01)

About the Author:

I work as a freelance sociologist through  my company, Dingwall Enterprises, providing consultancy, research and writing. I have a part-time position at Nottingham Trent University and continuing consultancy relationships with the RCUK Horizon Digital Economy Hub and the Institution of Occupational Health and Safety (IOSH). I am currently working on public engagement issues in bioenergy for BBSRC and in transport and climate change on an EPSRC project, and editing Symbolic Interaction for the SSSI. This now has a website with the new publishers, Wiley-Blackwell: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1002/%28ISSN%291533-8665

About this edition

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1446270432
• ISBN 13: 9781446270431
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 784
• Editor: Bourgeault Ivy, Dingwall Robert, De Vries Ray