Part I: Language, Epistemology and the Qualitative Paradigm
Ch 1 - The Landscape of Qualitative Research
Patricia Munhall
Ch 2 - Language and Nursing Research
Patricia Munhall
Ch 3 - Epistemology in Nursing
Patricia Munhall
Ch 4 - Historical and Philosophical Foundations of Qualitative Research
Marcia Dunbro
Ch 5 - Reflections on Post-Modernism, Critical Social Theory
and Feminist Approaches
Lynne Dunphy
Part II: Qualitative Methods and Exemplars
Ch 6 - Phenomenology: The Method
Patricia Munhall
Ch 7 - Exemplar: Meanings in Mothers’ Experience with Infant Death
Three Phenomomenological Inquiries: In Another World;Five Years Later;
What Forever Means
Sarah Steen Lauterbach
Ch 8 - Grounded Theory: The Method
Judith Wuest
Ch 9 - Exemplar: Teetering on the Edge: A Substantive Theory
of Postpartum Depression
Cheryl Tantano Beck
Ch 10 - Ethnography: The Method
Zane Robinson Wolf
Ch 11 - Exemplar: The Milk of Human Kindness: WIC Influence on the
Infant Feeding Decisions of Black Non-Hispanic Women
Roberta Cricco-Lizza
Ch 12 - Case Study: The Method
Patricia Becker Heinz
Ch 13 - Exemplar: Health Outcomes of People with
Serious Mental Illnesses
Terry A. Badger
Ch 14 - Historical Research: The Method
M. Louise Fitzpatrick
Ch 15 - Exemplar: “Called to a Mission of Charity”:
The Sisters of St. Joseph in the Civil War
Barbra Mann Wall
Ch 16 - Narrative Inquiry: The Method
Maureen Duffy
Ch 17 - Exemplar: Four Types of Stories about Family Care Giving
Lioness Ayres
Ch 18 - Action Research: The Method/Methodologies
Ron Chenail, et al- Action Research
Ch 19 - Practical Discourse as Action Research:
Philosophical Inquiry in Practice
Edward Freeman
Part III: Internal and External Considerations of
Qualitative Research
Ch 20 - Evidenced Based Nursing and Qualitative Research:
A Partnership Imperative for Real-World Practice
Patti R. Zuzelo
Ch 21 - Ethical Considerations and Qualitative Research
Patricia Munhall
Ch 22 - Institutional Review
Patricia Munhall
Ch 23 - Strategies of Intra-Project Sampling
Janice Morse
Ch 24 - Combining Qualitative and Quantitative Method for
Mixed-Method Designs
Janice Morse
Ch 25 - Evaluation of Qualitative Research
Marlene Mackey
Ch 26 - Locating Qualitative Research Resources On-Line
Ronald Chenail and Maureen Duffy
Ch 27 - Opening Doors to Re-Imagining Qualitative Research
David M.Callejo Perez
Summary
Appendix:
A. Outline for Proposals and Reports
