Research Methods in Health Humanities

Craig M Klugman editor Erin Gentry Lamb editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Oxford University Press Inc

Published:9th Oct '19

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Research Methods in Health Humanities surveys the diverse and unique research methods used by scholars in the growing, transdisciplinary field of health humanities. Appropriate for advanced undergraduates, but rich enough to engage more seasoned students and scholars, this volume is an essential teaching and reference tool for health humanities teachers and scholars. Health humanities is a field committed to social justice and to applying expertise to real world concerns, creating research that translates to participants and communities in meaningful and useful ways. The chapters in this field-defining volume reflect these values by examining the human aspects of health and health care that are critical, reflective, textual, contextual, qualitative, and quantitative. Divided into four sections, the volume demonstrates how to conduct research on texts, contexts, people, and programs. Readers will find research methods from traditional disciplines adapted to health humanities work, such as close reading of diverse texts, archival research, ethnography, interviews, and surveys. The book also features transdisciplinary methods unique to the health humanities, such as health and social justice studies, digital health humanities, and community dialogues. Each chapter provides learning objectives, step-by-step instructions, resources, and exercises, with illustrations of the method provided by the authors' own research. An invaluable tool in learning, curricular development, and research design, this volume provides a grounding in the traditions of the humanities, fine arts, and social sciences for students considering health care careers, but also provides useful tools of inquiry for everyone, as we are all future patients and future caregivers of a loved one.

This book is a wonderful resource for anyone interested in researching the health humanities. In following the advice of the authors, new researchers will be able to produce a reliable document of their work for the betterment of the field. I recommend everyone working or hoping to work in the field of health humanities to read this book and use it as a constant reference and guide. * Navjeevan Singh, Research and Humanities in Medical Education (RHiME) *

ISBN: 9780190918514

Dimensions: 231mm x 155mm x 25mm

Weight: 522g

362 pages