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Book Description: Transaction Publishers. Hardback. Book Condition: new. BRAND NEW, Qualitative Methods and Health Policy Research, Elizabeth Murphy, Robert Dingwall, This volume explains what qualitative research can do, when it is sensible to use or commission it, and (most crucially and controversially) how to tell good work from bad. The text is amply illustrated with examples of qualitative health care research studies. Further, the authors share a common ground with quantitative colleagues in rejecting the idea that qualitative research is a kind of creative art form rather than a tool of policy science. Thus their book presents a challenge to fashionable models of qualitative evaluation research, in arguing that qualitative researchers are not poets in residence, but vital partners in the great practical tasks of promoting health and caring for the sick. Bookseller Inventory # B9780202307107

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Book Description: Transaction Publishers, United States, 2003. Hardback. Book Condition: New. 230 x 150 mm. Brand New Book with Free Worldwide Delivery. Qualitative researchers have traditionally been cautious about claiming that their work was scientific. The "right-on" schools have exaggerated this caution into an outright rejection of science as a model for their work. Science is, for them, outmoded; "an archaic form of consciousness surviving for a while yet in a degraded form" ("Tyler 1986:200"). Scientists' assertions that they are in pursuit of truth simply camouflage their own lust for power. There is no essential difference between truth and propaganda. The authors acknowledge that the boundary between science and propaganda has often been breached and some distrust of scientific claims may be healthy. They also question the claim that science creates disinterested and objective knowledge of an observer-independent world without concluding that science is impossible. The skeptics' reservations about qualitative research are based on the deep-rooted assumption among natural scientists, and some social scientists, that there is a world "out there," prior to, and independent of, their observations. This world can be known objectively in the sense that all observers will, if identically placed, see it in exactly the same way. If a suitable language were available, they would also all produce identical descriptions. From these observations they can work out the laws governing the world's operations. The authors try to resolve these contrary claims by asserting that science is a "procedural" commitment. It consists of openness to refutation, a conscientious and systematic search for contradictory evidence, and a readiness to subject one's preconceptions to critical examination. The devotion to truth as a regulative ideal is an essential difference between science and propaganda. This work is a unique and innovative defense of scientific method. "Elizabeth Murphy" is reader in sociology and social policy at the University of Nottingham, UK. "Robert Dingwall" is professor and director of the Institute for the Study of Genetics, Biorisks, and Society at the University of Nottingham, UK. Bookseller Inventory # AAN9780202307107

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Book Description: 2003. Book Condition: New. Brand NEW unread book. Hard cover bound book. Bookseller Inventory # 9780202307107

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Book Description: Aldine De Gruyter, 2003. Hardcover. Book Condition: Brand New. 1st edition. 230 pages. 9.50x6.25x0.75 inches. In Stock. Bookseller Inventory # __0202307107

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