| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 266 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Geographies of health |
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Ashgate's geographies of health series.
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| Contents |
Practicing Qualitative Methods in Health Geographies -- Front Cover; Practicing Qualitative Methods in Health Geographies; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Notes on contributors; Ackowledgements; Preface: the practice of qualitative research; References; List of abbreviations; Chapter 1: Praxis in qualitative health geography; Introduction; Defining praxis; Theory as motivation for change in qualitative praxis; Method, methodology and ethics; Organization of the book; References; PART I: Representation, ethics and power |
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Chapter 2: Placing narrative correspondence in the geographer's toolbox: insights from care research in New ZealandReflections on praxis; Introduction; Conceptualizing narrative accounts; Narrative correspondence -- new insights for geographical research?; Limitations to narrative correspondence techniques; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; References; Chapter 3: Photo elicitation as method: a participatory approach; Reflections on praxis; Introduction; Theoretical approaches to photo elicitation; Participatory photo elicitation; Stages of participatory photo elicitation; An example: Polly's story |
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ConclusionsReferences; Chapter 4: Ethics and activism in environment and health research; Reflections on praxis; Introduction; Urban biosolid processing in rural communities: facility siting, risk perceptions and community conflict; Activist(s) against local wind turbines in Ontario; The role of the REB and reflections on the role of the activist; Qualitative rigor; Activism in the media and online; Implications and lessons learned; References; PART II: Representation, self and community; Chapter 5: Writing illness through feminist autobiographical analysis; Reflections on praxis |
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Writing illness in qualitative health geographyExperience and illness through feminism and autobiography; Becoming, enactment and the material-discursive in diffractive readings; Writing my illness -- again -- in the context of becoming an academic subject; Closing thoughts about writing illness; References; Chapter 6: Community capacity building through qualitative methodologies; Reflections on praxis; Introduction; Questions of epistemology and community engagement; Approaches to building community capacity through community-engaged research; Critical issues in community-engaged research |
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ConclusionsReferences; Chapter 7: Walking in their shoes: utilizing go-along interviews to explore participant engagement with local space; Reflections on praxis; Introduction; Understanding the go-along interview method; Using go-along interviews in health geography research; Conclusion; References; PART III: Representation through visual media; Chapter 8: What can participant-generated drawing add to health geography's qualitative palette?; Reflections on praxis; Introduction; Drawing as a research method; Participant-generated drawing in health geography: a pilot study; Conclusions |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 10, 2016) |
| Subject |
Medical geography -- Methodology
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Qualitative research.
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Geography, Medical -- methods
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MEDICAL -- Forensic Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Preventive Medicine.
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MEDICAL -- Public Health.
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Medical geography -- Methodology.
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Qualitative research.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Fenton, Nancy E., editor.
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Baxter, Jamie, editor.
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| LC no. |
2016006525 |
| ISBN |
9781317076506 |
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1317076508 |
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9781317076513 |
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1317076516 |
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9781472445407 |
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1472445406 |
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9781472445414 |
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1472445414 |
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9781315601946 |
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131560194X |
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1472445392 |
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9781472445391 |
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9781317076490 |
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1317076494 |
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