Qualitative research methods are growing in importance and in use amongst nurses and other health researchers. Qualitative Health Research showcases the cutting-edge developments and seminal studies in research practice and research theory in this field. At the same time these volumes detail the long and fascinating history of the use of qualitative approaches to the study of health andillness, providing a complete map of the field. The four volumes focus on: patients and disease; health professionals and their work; healthcare organizations; patient experiences. INDICE: VOLUME 1: PATIENTS AND DISEASES Part 1: What is a Disease? What IsDisease? The Study of Disease in Relation to Culture - L. S. King Ilnness, Therapy and the Modern Urban - H. Fabrega, Jr. The Insanity of Place - T. Parsons and R. Fox Disability as Social Deviance - E. Goffman Illness and Everyday Life - E. Freidson Part 2: Experiencing Disease - R. Dingwall History, Culture and Subjective Experience: An exploration of the social bases of drug-induced experiences The Cardiac Patient's Perception of his Heart - H. Becker Social Movements, the Occupational Arena and Changes in Career Consciousness: The caseof women flight attendants - B. Cowie Epidemic Psychology - A Model - RobertaLessor The Epidemiology of a Folk Illness: "Susto" - P.M. Strong Part 3: Diagnosing Disease - Rubel "Feed a Cold, Starve a Fever" - Folk models of infection in an English suburban community, and their relation to medical treatment The Diagnosis of Disease Among the Subanun of Mindanao - C.G. Helman The Hierarchy of Resort in Curative Practices: The Admiralty Islands, Melanesia - C. Frake Bishop Berkeley and the Adeno-tonsillectomy Enigma - Lola Romanucci SchwartzTypification in the Diagnostic Practices of Rehabilitation Agencies - M. Bloor Orchestrating an Encounter: A note on the talk of mentally handicapped children - T. Scheff Part 4: Medication and Medicalization - J. Brewer, G. McBride and S. Yearley The Discovery of Hyperkinesis: Notes on the medicalization of deviant behavior Media and Medicine The Message of Psychotropic Drug - P. Conrad Body Ritual among The Nacirema American - G.V. Stimson Sociological Imperialism and the Profession of Medicine: A critical examination of the thesis of medical imperialism - H. Miner Obeying Doctor's Orders: A view from the other side - P.M. Strong Compliance and the Patient's Perspective: Controlling symptoms in everyday life - G.V. Stimson VOLUME 2: HEALTH PROFESSIONS AND THEIR WORK - L.M. Hunt, B. Jordan, S. Irwin and C.H. Browner Part 1: Professions Professions Part 2: Professional//Patient Interaction - E.C. Hughes Physician and Patient as a Social System New England Behavior in Private Places: Sustaining definitions of reality in gynecological examinations - L.J. Henderson Going Private: Ceremonial Forms in a Private Oncology Clinic - J.P. Emerson Pain Talk: TheExpression of Suffering in the Medical Consultation - D. Silverman Online Commentary in Acute Medical Visits: A method of shaping patient expectations - C.C. Heath Bad News in Oncology: How physician and patient talk about death and dying without using those words - J. Heritage and T. Stivers Part 3: Professional Socialization - K. Lutfey and D. Maynard Initiation Into a Women's Profession: Identity Problems in the status transition of coed to student nurse The faces of Florence Nightingale: Functions of the heroine legend in an occupational sub-culture - F. Davis and V. L. Olesen Uncertainty in Medical Prognosis: Clinical and functional - E.W. Whittaker and V.L. Olesen Medical Mystique - F. Davis Uncertainty and Control in Professional - P.A. Atkinson, M.E. Reid and P.F. Sheldrake Cadaver Stories and the Emotional Socialization of Medical Students - D. Light Roundsmanship - Inherent Control on a Medical Teaching Ward - F.W. Hafferty Part 4: Mistakes at Work - Arluke Mistakes at work Canadian Phychiatry and Suicide: The management of a mistake - E.C. Hughes Standardization in Action: Achieving local universality through medical protocols - D. Light Ritual and Magic in Control of Contagion - S. Timmermans and M. Berg Part 5: TheCraft of Surgery - J.A. Roth The Tacit Order of Teamwork: Collaboration and embodied conduct in anaesthesia On Control, Certitude, and the Paranoia of Surgeons - J. Hindmarsh and A. Pilnick The Woman in the Surgeon's Body: Understanding difference - J. Cassell At the Cutting Edge? Modernization and nostalgia in a hospital operating theatre department - J. Cassell Part 6: Primary and Community Care - R. McDonald. J.Waring and S. Harrison Processes of Control in a Company of Equals The Social Organization of Physician-Managers in a Changing HMO - E. Freidson and B. Rhea Role Strains of a Health Care Team in a Poverty Community - T.J. Hoff Accomplishing Team: Teamwork and categorisation in two community mental health teams - H.D. Banta and R C. Fox VOLUME 3: HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS - L. Griffiths Part 1: Hospitals in Healthcare The Role of the Hospital The Hospital and its Negotiated Order - Waddington Decline of the Hospital: Reconstructing institutional dangers - L. Strauss, L. Schatzman, R. Bucher, D. Ehrlich, and M. Sabshin Part 2: Producing and Managing Information - D. Armstrong Some Notes on Record Taking and Making in an Antenatal Clinic Making Sense of Mortality - S. Macintyre Paper and People: The work of the casualty reception clerk - L. Prior Women's Voice: The case of nursing information systems - D. Hughes Accumulating and Coordinating: Occasions for information technologies - I. Wagner Managing Understandings: Politics, symbolism, niche marketing and the quest for legitimacy in IT implementation - M. Berg Part 3: Authority and Deference - A.D. Brown Authority and Decision-Making in a Hospital: A comparative analysis Sources of Power of Lower Participants in Complex Organizations - R.L. Coser Influence and Authority Among Physicians in an Outpatient-Clinic - David Mechanic Professionals in Organisations - Some Preliminary Observations on Hospital Consultants - M.E.W. Goss Managing Doctors and Saving a Hospital: Irony, rhetoric and actor networks - C. Davies The Contestation of Archetypes: Negotiating scripts in a UK hospital trust board - M. Dent Physicianson the Drug Industry Side of the Prescription Blank: Their dual commitment tomedical science and business - F. Mueller, C. Harvey and C. Howorth Management of Radiation Hazards in Hospitals: Plural rationalities in a single institution - R.C. Fox Prognostic Conflict in Life-and-Death Decisions: The organization as an ecology of knowledge - S. Rayner AIDS and Its Impact on Medical Work:The culture and politics of the shop floor - R.R. Anspach VOLUME 4: PATIENT EXPERIENCES - C.L. Bosk and J. E. Frader Part 1: Ward Life A Case-Study in the Functioning of Social Systems as a Defence against Anxiety: A report on a study of the nursing service of a general hospital Narrating Nursing Jurisdiction:"Atrocity Stories" and "Boundary-Work" - E.P. Menzies Space and Place in the Construction and Performance of Gendered Nursing Identities - D. Allen Temporal Reference Frameworks and Nurses' Work Organization - S. Halford and P. Leonard Old Folks and Dirty Work: The social conditions for patient abuse in a nursing home - S. Waterworth "Pain Talk" in Hospice and Palliative Care Team Meetings: An ethnography - C.I. Stannard Some Social Functions of Laughter - A Study of Humor in a Hospital Setting - Arber Meanings of Immediate: The practical use of the Patient's Charter in the accident and emergency department - R.L. Coser Social Death as Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: David Sudnow's passing on revisited - L.C. Sbaih The Work of Hospitalized Patients - S. Timmermans The HealthService Consumer - A Sociological Misconception - L. Strauss, S. Fagerhaugh, B. Suczek and C. L. Wiener Part 2: Being a Patient - M. Stacey Series of Suffering: Subjective tales and research narratives Narrative Turn or Blind Alley? - K. Charmaz Orientals Are Stoic New Yorker - P. Atkinson Parenthood and Patienthood: A dialectical autobiography - Tao-Kim-Hai and M. Andre Four Days in a Strange Place! - N. Hart Suffering and the Social Construction of Illness: Thedelegitimation of illness experience in chronic fatigue syndrome - "Locus Congressi" The Construction of Lay Expertise: Aids activism and the forging of credibility - N.C. Ware Images of Parenthood in the United Kingdom and Japan - S. Epstein Photo Images: Jo Spence's narratives of living with illness - R. Dingwall, H. Tanaka and S. Minamikata Further Than the Eye Can See? Photo elicitation and research with men - S. Bell Managing an Uncertain Illness Trajectory in Old Age: Patients' and physicians' views of stroke - J.L. Oliffe and J.L. Bottorff Temporal Aspects of Dying as a Non-Scheduled Status Passage - G. Becker and S. Kaufmann
- ISBN: 978-1-84787-354-5
- Editorial: Sage Publications
- Encuadernacion: Cartoné
- Páginas: 1248
- Fecha Publicación: 01/08/2008
- Nº Volúmenes: 4
- Idioma: Inglés