Critical qualitative health research : exploring philosophies, politics and practices / edited by Kay Aranda.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Aranda, Kay, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medicine--Research--Methodology.

Medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (231 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

London : Routledge, 2020.

Summary:

Critical Qualitative Health Research seeks to deepen understandings of the philosophies, politics and practices shaping contemporary qualitative health related research. This accessible, lively, controversial introduction draws on current empirical examples and critical discussion to show how qualitative research undertaken in neoliberal healthcare contexts emerges and the complex issues qualitative researchers confront. This book provides readers with a critical, interrogative discussion of the histories and the legacies of qualitative research, as well as of the more recent calls for renewed criticality in research to respond to global health concerns. Contributions further showcase a range of contemporary work engaging with these issues and the complex encounters with philosophies, politics and practices this involves; from seeking explicit engagements with posthuman ideas or detailed explorations of deeply engaged humanist approaches, to critical discussions of the politics and practices of emerging novel, digital and creative methods. This book offers postgraduate researchers, health researchers and students alike opportunities to engage more deeply with the emergent, complex and messy terrain of qualitative health related research.

Contents:

Cover

Half Title

Title Page

Copyright Page

Table of Contents

List of figures

List of tables

List of boxes

List of contributors

Preface

Introduction

1. Qualitative research and ideological pragmatism?

Ideological pragmatism

Bias?

Thematic analysis - pragmatic building blocks

Reporting and dissemination of findings

Reflexivity (or not?)

Embedding methodological pragmatism into the curriculum

Conclusion

References

2. Case study methodology

Short history and background to Case Study methodology

Different types of case study design

Developing and using a case study protocol

Determining the unit of analysis and boundaries of the 'case'

Triangulation

Data collection

Criteria for analysing and interpreting data

Multiple cases and cross-case analysis

Critiques of Case Study methodology

Chapter summary

3. Qualitative methods: Challenges and celebrations of fieldwork in the health care setting

The practice of interviewing

Before the interview

The technicalities of interviewing

Recording interview data

Virtual interviewing

Focus groups

The practice of observation

Access

Conduct in the field

Documents

4. The practice of grounded theory: An interpretivist perspective

A brief history of grounded theory

The analytical process: the constant comparative method

The literature review

Writing a grounded theory

5. Engaging with grounded theory research as a doctoral student

Developing a philosophical position

Choosing grounded theory

Rationalising grounded theory methodological choices

Conducting grounded theory research as a postgraduate student

Write, write, write

Administration skills

Support from others.

Transitioning into an early career researcher

6. From phenomenology to practice: Theoretical foundations and phenomenological methods

Phenomenology as method

Research process in phenomenological research

Contemporary Directions in Phenomenology

Neurophenomenology

Concluding remarks

7. Phenomenology - questioning consciousness and experience

Phenomenology

What is consciousness?

Philosophical and psychological theories of consciousness

The development of psychology

What is experience?

What is awareness?

Applications to the research process

Conclusions

8. Rethinking ethnography with practice theory: Engaging with critical theory in qualitative health research

Contextualising the research setting

Practice theories and the socio-material

Ethnography - a brief history

The rising popularity of ethnographic techniques

Focused ethnography

Study findings in relation to re-thinking ethnography

9. Autoethnography

Defining and unpacking autoethnography

Autoethnographic forms

Autoethnography and narrative writing

Culture

The personal is political

Autoethnography and the methodological politics of the academy

Philosophical background

The narrative turn and narrative healing

Benefits of autoethnography: why do it?

Challenges for autoethnographers: evaluation and dissemination

Standard criticisms of autoethnography and rejoinders to these

10. Postcritical qualitative feminist research: Implications for participatory and narrative approaches

Feminist philosophies, theories and politics

Feminist research practices

Materialist feminist philosophies, theories and research

Material feminism and more-than-human-world research.

Limits to material feminisms and feminist research

11. The reflexive autoethnographer

Get out of your rational mind

Autoethnographic reflexivity

Critical reflexivity (or ethico-reflexivity)

Strong reflexivity

Intersectional reflexivity

From reflexivity to diffraction

Conclusion: inhibitors of autoethnographic reflexivity-diffraction

Index.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-429-43277-1

0-429-77999-2

9780429432774

OCLC:

1137858316