Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : Shifting sands in qualitative methodology / Frances Rapport -- Discourse analysis : addressing the communication strategies of healthcare professionals / Lesley Griffiths and Glyn Elwyn -- The turn to a narrative knowing of persons : minimalist passive interviewing technique and team analysis of narrative qualitative data / Kip Jones -- Hermeneutics and nursing research / Hugh Chadderton -- Descriptive phenomenology : life-world as evidence / Les Todres and Immy Holloway -- From the porter's point of view : participant observation by the interpretive anthropologist in the hospital / Nigel Rapport -- Imagework method and potential applications in health, social sciences and social care research : journeying with a question / Iain Edgar -- Postmodern literary poetics of experience : a new form of aesthetic enquiry / Francis C. Biley -- Historiography, illness and the interpretation of fiction / Christopher Maggs -- Methodology and practical application of the Social Action Research model / Jennie Fleming and Dave Ward.