Introduction
PART ONE: CONTRIBUTIONS OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH
There¿s More to Dying Than Death: Qualitative Research on the End-of-Life - Stefan Timmermans
Healer-Patient Interaction: New Mediations in Clinical Relationships - Arthur W. Frank, Michael K. Corman, Jessica A. Gish and Paul Lawton
Qualitative Contributions to the Study of Health Professions and Their Work - Johanne Collin
Why Use Qualitative Methods to Study Health-Care Organizations? Insights from Multilevel Case Studies - Carol A. Caronna
How Country Matters: Studying Health Policy in a Comparative Perspective - Sirpa Wrede
Exploring Social Inequalities in Health: The Importance of Thinking Qualitatively - Gareth Williams and Eva Elliott
PART TWO: THEORY
Theory Matters in Qualitative Health Research - Mita Giacomini
Ethnographic Approaches to Health and Development Research: The Contributions of Anthropology - Rebecca Prentice
What Is Grounded Theory and Where Does It Come from? - Dorothy Pawluch and Elena Neiterman
Qualitative Methods from Psychology - Helen Malson
Conversation Analysis and Ethnomethodology: The Centrality of Interaction - Timothy Halkowski and Virginia Teas Gill
Phenomenology - Carol L. McWilliam
Studying Organizations: The Revival of Institutionalism - Karen Staniland
History and Social Change in Health and Medicine - Claire Hooker
PART THREE: COLLECTING AND ANALYZING DATA
Qualitative Research Review and Synthesis - Jennie Popay and Sara Mallinson
Qualitative Interviewing Techniques and Styles - Susan E. Kelly
Focus Groups - Rosaline S. Barbour
Fieldwork and Participant Observation - Davina Allen
Video-Based Conversation Analysis - Ruth Parry
Practising Discourse Analysis in Healthcare Settings - Srikant Sarangi
Documents in Health Research - Lindsay Prior
Participatory Action Research: Theoretical Perspectives on the Challenges of Researching Action - Louise Potvin, Sherri L. Bisset and Leah Walz
Qualitative Research in Programme Evaluation - Isobel MacPherson and Linda McKie
Auto-Ethnography: Making Sense of Personal Illness Journeys - Elizabeth Ettore
Institutional Ethnography - Marie L. Campbell
Visual Methods for Collecting and Analysing Data - Susan E. Bell
Keyword Analysis: A New Tool for Qualitative Research - Clive Seale and Jonathan Charteris-Black
PART FOUR: ISSUES IN QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH
Recognizing Quality in Qualitative Research - Kath M. Melia
Mixed Methods Involving Qualitative Research - Alicia O¿Cathain
A Practical Guide to Research Ethics - Laura Stark and Adam Hedgecoe
Using Qualitative Research Methods to Inform Health Policy: The Case of Public Deliberation - Julia Abelson
Cross National Qualitative Health Research - Carine Vassy and Richard Keller
PART FIVE: APPLYING QUALITATIVE METHODS
Researching Reproduction Qualitatively: Intersections of Personal and Political - Kereen Reiger and Pranee Liamputtong
Understanding the Shaping, Incorporation and Co-Ordination of Health Technologies through Qualitative Research - Tiago Moreira and Tim Rapley
Transgressive Pleasures: Undertaking Qualitative Research in the Radsex Domain - Dave Holmes, Patrick O¿Byrne and Denise Gastaldo
The Challenges and Opportunities of Qualitative Health Research with Children - Ilina Singh and Sinead Keenan
The Dilemmas of Advocacy: The Paradox of Giving in Disability Research - Ruth Pinder
Qualitative Approaches for Studying Environmental Health - Phil Brown