Qualitative Methods for Health Research
Further Reading
Links to SAGE readings have been provided, non-SAGE readings are suggested and you may be able to find these via your university’s library.
In this chapter, we quote Kathy Charmaz’s approach to grounded theory which combines a more interpretive influence. For her insights into how interviewees’ narratives intersect with the narratives we tell in research, see her discussion here of stories of suffering:
There are many examples of discourse analysis is the health literature, which draw on a number of different theoretical traditions. To see how these are utilized in the analysis, see this example from Nettleton and colleagues, who use Foucauldian theory to unpack what is going on in accounts from recovering heroin users:
For a careful exploration of the ways in which data generated in interviews are dependent on the context of their production, and how to take this into account in analysis, see: