Qualitative Health Research

Janice M. Morse, PhD (Nurs), PhD (Anthro), FAAN is a professor and Presidential Endowed Chair at the University of Utah College of Nursing, and Professor Emeritus, University of Alberta, Canada., from 1991-1996, she also held a position as professor at The Pennsylvania State University. From 1997-2007, she was the founding Director and Scientific Director of the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology, University of Alberta, founding editor for the International Journal of Qualitative Methods, and Editor of the Qual Press monograph series. She remains the founding editor for Qualitative Health Research, (now in Volume 2, Sage1), is currently editor for the monograph series Developing Qualitative Inquiry, and The Essentials of Qualitative Inquiry (Left Coast Press). Her research programs are in the areas of suffering and comforting, preventing patient falls, and developing qualitative methods. In 2011, she was awarded the Lifetime Achievement in Qualitative Inquiry from the International Center for Qualitative Inquiry, was an inaugural inductee into the Sigma Theta Tau International Nurse Researcher Hall of Fame (2010), the 5th recipient of the Episteme Award (also Sigma Theta Tau). She received awarded honorary doctorates from the University of Newcastle (Australia) and Athabasca University (Canada). She is the author of 460 articles and chapters and 19 books on qualitative research methods, suffering, comforting and patient falls.

PART ONE: THE CHARACTERISTICS OF QUALITATIVE RESEARCH The Disease of Masturbation - H Tristam Engelhardt Jr Values and the Concept of Disease Shakespeare in the Bush - Laura Bohannan Context as a Source of Meaning and Understanding - Pamela S Hinds, Doris E Chaves and Sandra M Cypess The Holistic Injunction - George W Noblit and John D Engel An Ideal and a Moral Imperative for Qualitative Research `Euch, Those Are For Your Husband!' - Janice M Morse Examination of Cultural Values and Assumptions Associated with Breast-Feeding PART TWO: THE QUALITATIVE SYNTHESIS OF RESEARCH The Research Topic - Arnold van Gennep Or, Folklore Without End Comparative Analysis of Conceptualizations and Theories of Caring - Janice M Morse et al PART THREE: PHENOMENOLOGY Birthing Pain - Vangie Kelpin Operating on a Child's Heart - Stephen J Smith A Pedagogical View of Hospitalization Memories of Breathing - Monica Clarke A Phenomenological Dialogue Asthma as a Way of Becoming PART FOUR: ETHNOGRAPHY The Meaning of Menopause in a Newfoundland Fishing Village - Dona Lee Davis On Control, Certitude and the `Paranoia' of Surgeons - Joan Cassell Under the Guise of Passivity - Hava Golander We Can Communicate Warmth, Caring and Respect On Being Sane in Insane Places - D L Rosenhan PART FIVE: ETHNOSCIENCE Beating the Drunk Charge - James P Spradley The Structure and Function of Gift Giving in the Patient-Nurse Relationship - Janice M Morse PART SIX: GROUNDED THEORY Becoming Ordinary - Beverley Lorencz Leaving the Psychiatric Hospital The Emotional Experience of Breast Expression - Janice M Morse and Joan L Bottorff Negotiating Commitment and Involvement in the Nurse-Patient Relationship - Janice M Morse PART SEVEN: THE SEMISTRUCTURED QUESTIONNAIRE Social Coercion for Weaning - Janice M Morse and Margaret J Harrison