Introduction PART ONE: CONTRIBUTIONS OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH There's More to Dying Than Death: Qualitative Research on the End-of-Life - Stefan Timmermans Healer-Patient Interaction: New Mediations in Clinical Relationships Arthur W. Frank, Michael K. Corman, Jessica A. Gish and Paul Lawton Contributions Study of Health Professions Their Work Johanne Collin Why Use Methods Health-Care Organizations? Insights from Multilevel Case Studies Carol Caronna How Country Matters: Studying Policy a...

This book is based on the most extensive investigation of child abuse and neglect ever carried out in Great Britain. The author followed course numerous cases from first detection ill-treatment to resolution (or otherwise) problem.

Introduction - Gale Miller Context and Method in Qualitative Research PART ONE: VALIDITY AND PLAUSIBILITY IN QUALITATIVE RESEARCH The Logics of David Silverman Producing 'Plausible Stories' Kath M Melia Interviewing Student Nurses Techniques Validation Michael Bloor A Critical Commentary TWO: METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES Accounts, Interviews Observations Robert Dingwall Problems with Isobel Bowler Experiences Service Providers Clients Contextualizing Texts Studying Organizational Using Computers...

The system of pre-emptive ethical regulation developed in the biomedical sciences has become a major threat to research humanities and social (HSS). Although there is growing criticism its effects, most commentators have tended accept principle regulation. This paper argues that we should not make this concession fundamentally wrong because damage it inflicts on democratic society far exceeds any harm HSS capable causing individuals.

In recent years the study of nursing history in Britain has been transformed by application concepts and methods from social sciences to original sources. The myths legends which have grown up through a century anecdotal writing chipped away reveal complex story an occupation shaped reshaped technological change. Most work scattered monographs, journals edited collections. The skills historian, sociologist graduate nurse brought together rethink modern light latest scholarship. account...

It is argued that social interaction involves the reciprocal typification of parties to any encounter in light theories which those have available them. One element such a conception structure one's society, including taxonomy occupations. Two problems are generated within this taxonomy, inclusion, defining what properly falls some category, and exclusion, out with category. way these resolved telling "atrocity stories" assert defend rational character an occupation its members against...