Health Care Research in Practice: Recent Challenges and Ongoing Issues v. 2
Published on 16. November 1995
Book
Paperback/Softback
224 pages
978-0-412-62330-1 (ISBN)
Description
This text continues the examination of political, ethical and methodological issues which arise from the practice of social research in health care settings. Ongoing issues introduced in Volume One are given broader coverage and these concerns are widened to introduce focus groups, memory work, and secondary analysis discussions of recent challenges in the practice of health research. This book should be of interest to health care researchers, students of health and social sciences.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Oxford University Press
Target group
College/higher education
Illustrations
2ill.
Dimensions
Height: 228 mm
Width: 152 mm
Weight
280 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-412-62330-1 (9780412623301)
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Content
The vicissitudes of running a research team, Margaret Hamilton; moving beyond biomedical research in health education, Derek Colquhoun; health research and ethnic communities - reflections on practice, Pranee Liamputtong Rice; close to home - qualitative research with people with HIV/AIDS, David Stephens; distant voices, still lives - young women, research and (em)power(ment), Lyn Harrison; memory-work - process, practice and pitfalls, Glenda Koutroulis; existing sources and the methodological imagination, Allan Kellehear; Opening up awareness - researching nurses' attitudes towards the dying patients, David Field; sensitive issues in sensitive settings - research in accident and emergency departments, Beverley Raphael and Gwenneth Roberts; birth as euphoria - the social meaning of birth, Karen Lane; intervention or understanding - the uses of applied nutrition research, Pat Crotty; research to support health promotion based on community development approaches, Frances Baum.