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Author Cheek, Julianne

Title Postmodern and Poststructural Approaches to Nursing Research
Published Thousand Oaks : SAGE Publications, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (185 pages)
Series EBSCO Academic Collection
Contents Setting the Parameters: What this Book is About and Why it is Important -- This Book as a Response to Research in Nursing/Health Care as an Evolving Process -- Towards an Understanding of Postmodern and Poststructural Approaches -- Can Postmodern and Poststructuralist Approaches Influence Practice or are They Merely Esoteric? -- What is to Follow -- Situating Postmodern Thought -- What This Chapter Is About -- What is Postmodern Thought? -- The Work of Michel Foucault -- Using A Postmodern Theoretical Frame in Research About Health and Health Care -- Thinking and Researching Poststructurally -- Outline of This Chapter -- Poststructural Thought -- Discourse Analysis: One Method within a Poststructuralist Approach -- Deconstruction: Another Approach to Research Within Poststructural Perspectives -- Speaking Practically, Part I: "Proposing" Research Informed by Postmodern and Poststructural Approaches -- The Craft of Proposal Writing: Preliminary Considerations -- The Craft of Proposal Writing: Creating The Text -- Speaking Practically, Part II: "Doing" Research Informed by Postmodern and Poststructural Approaches -- Collecting and Analyzing the Material: Phase 1 of The Study -- Phase 2: Qualitative Thematic Analysis: Developing a Chronology of Topics -- Phase 3: Analyzing the Reporting about Toxic Shock Syndrome Discursively -- Report on the Findings of Phase 3 Analysis -- Summation -- The Journey Forward -- Where Have We Been? -- Where Are We? -- The Journey Forward -- Grant Application, "Constructing Toxic Shock Syndrome."
Summary Offering pluralistic perspectives, this book examines the patient experience and patient care in the context of postmodern and poststructural approaches. It explores the ways in which these approaches can be used to inform us about health care; the practical aspects of proposing and carrying out research projects using these approaches; and the "intellectual journey" required to come to grips with their meaning and application
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Nursing -- Research.
Postmodernism.
Poststructuralism.
Nursing Research -- methods
Nursing Research
post-structuralism.
MEDICAL -- Nursing -- Research & Theory.
Nursing -- Research
Postmodernism
Poststructuralism
Verpleegkunde.
Onderzoek.
Postmodernisme.
Form Electronic book
LC no. 99006366
ISBN 9781452221311
1452221316
9780761906742
0761906746
0761906754
9780761906759
9781452204895
1452204896