Beyond Method: Philosophical Conversations in Healthcare Research and Scholarship / Edition 1

by Pamela M. Ironside

Overview

This beloved American memoir is about a farm and its people, recollections of a boyhood in Wisconsin's Driftless region. Ben Logan grew up on Seldom Seen Farm with his three brothers, father, mother, and hired hand Lyle. The boys discussed and argued and joked over the events around their farm, marked the seasons by the demands of the land, and tested each other and themselves.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780299208240
Publisher:	University of Wisconsin Press
Publication date:	06/17/2005
Series:	Interpretive Studies in Healthcare and the Human Sciences , #4
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	332
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

Pamela M. Ironside is Assistant Professor of Nursing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Diane M Tomasic, EdD, RN (Slippery Rock University )
Description: This fourth volume in the Interpretive Studies in Healthcare and the Human Sciences series, reviews methodological issues related to interpretive methodology. It goes beyond "how to" and deals with application issues.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide the reader with essays on the perspectives of interpretive methodology. There is a need to go beyond the text information and examine the issues surrounding this philosophical perspective.
Audience: The target audience is nurse scholars and graduate students interested in the interpretive philosophical approach to nursing research. This is an edited volume with expert contributors involved in this aspect of nursing research.
Features: The book begins with a discussion of the philosophical underpinnings of the interpretive approach. Subsequent chapters deal with methodological issues such as representation, interviewing, shape-shifting, combining qualitative methods, and ways of knowing.
Assessment: This book should be valuable to the target audience. Discourse focusing on the methods of interpretive approach to nursing science is valuable as nursing seeks to advance nursing science to ultimately improve client care.

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4 Stars! from Doody

"The struggle with questions about methods must continue as we search for the best ways to advance science in nursing and health care with the focus on improved client care."—Joyce P. Murray, President of the National League for Nursing and professor of nursing at Emory University

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