Qualitative Health Research

A compilation of major articles concerned with qualitative health research, this volume explores research assumptions, research synthesis, phenomenology, ethnography, ethnoscience, grounded theory and semi-structured questionnaires. All the articles relate aspects of qualitative research to specific health care concerns such as: patients leaving a psychiatric hospital, the menopause and conditions such as asthma. Nursing theories of caring and commitment are also considered.

Janice M. Morse, PhD (Nurs), PhD (Anthro), FAAN is a professor and Presidential Endowed Chair at the University of Utah College of Nursing, and Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta, Canada., from 1991-1996, she also held a position as professor at The Pennsylvania State University. From 1997-2007, she was the founding Director and Scientific Director of the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology, University of Alberta, founding editor for the International Journal of Qualitative Methods, and Editor of the Qual Press monograph series. She remains the founding editor for Qualitative Health Research, (now in Volume 2, Sage1), is currently editor for the monograph series Developing Qualitative Inquiry, and The Essentials of Qualitative Inquiry (Left Coast Press). Her research programs are in the areas of suffering and comforting, preventing patient falls, and developing qualitative methods. In 2011, she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement in Qualitative Inquiry from the International Center for Qualitative Inquiry, was an inaugural inductee into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame (2010), the 5th recipient of the Episteme Award (also Sigma Theta Tau). She received awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Newcastle (Australia) and Athabasca University (Canada). She is the author of 460 articles and chapters and 19 books on qualitative research methods, suffering, comforting and patient falls.

PART ONE: THE CHARACTERISTICS OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
The Disease of Masturbation - H Tristam Engelhardt Jr
Values and the Concept of Disease
Shakespeare in the Bush - Laura Bohannan
Context as a Source of Meaning and Understanding - Pamela S Hinds, Doris E Chaves and Sandra M Cypess
The Holistic Injunction - George W Noblit and John D Engel
An Ideal and a Moral Imperative for Qualitative Research
`Euch, Those Are For Your Husband!- - Janice M Morse
Examination of Cultural Values and Assumptions Associated with Breast-Feeding
PART TWO: THE QUALITATIVE SYNTHESIS OF RESEARCH
The Research Topic - Arnold van Gennep
Or, Folklore Without End
Comparative Analysis of Conceptualizations and Theories of Caring - Janice M Morse et al
PART THREE: PHENOMENOLOGY
Birthing Pain - Vangie Kelpin
Operating on a Child-s Heart - Stephen J Smith
A Pedagogical View of Hospitalization
Memories of Breathing - Monica Clarke
A Phenomenological Dialogue
Asthma as a Way of Becoming
PART FOUR: ETHNOGRAPHY
The Meaning of Menopause in a Newfoundland Fishing Village - Dona Lee Davis
On Control, Certitude and the `Paranoiä of Surgeons - Joan Cassell
Under the Guise of Passivity - Hava Golander
We Can Communicate Warmth, Caring and Respect
On Being Sane in Insane Places - D L Rosenhan
PART FIVE: ETHNOSCIENCE
Beating the Drunk Charge - James P Spradley
The Structure and Function of Gift Giving in the Patient-Nurse Relationship - Janice M Morse
PART SIX: GROUNDED THEORY
Becoming Ordinary - Beverley Lorencz
Leaving the Psychiatric Hospital
The Emotional Experience of Breast Expression - Janice M Morse and Joan L Bottorff
Negotiating Commitment and Involvement in the Nurse-Patient Relationship - Janice M Morse
PART SEVEN: THE SEMISTRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE
Social Coercion for Weaning - Janice M Morse and Margaret J Harrison