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In 'Qualitative Research in Health and Illness', Dr Jessica Smartt Gullion leverages two decades of experience as a qualitative methodologist and epidemiologist to provide an in-depth guide on conducting qualitative inquiry in the health fields. The book will begin with an overview of qualitative research and its applications. After laying down the foundation, Gullion guides students through the process of conducting research. Chapters provide detailed coverage on the formation of a research question, the ethics of a project, different data collection techniques such as interviewing, ethnographic research, and medical narratives, and concludes with strategies for analyzing data and documenting findings.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- An Overview of the Text -- Part I Engaging the Ontological Turn -- 1 A Turn From what? -- 2 An Overview of Vibrant Materialism -- 3 Paradigm Changes -- Part II Methodological Contradictions in Social Science Inquiry -- 4 Objectivity in Research -- The McDonaldization of Society -- Quantification -- Falsification -- Objectivity and Truth -- 5 Instruments of Measurement -- Questionnaires -- The Ontology of Instrumentation -- 6 Beyond Cause and Effect -- The General Linear Model -- Probabilities -- Spurious Relationships -- Noise -- Nonlinearity and Complexity -- Quantum Mechanics and the Death Knell of Causality -- 7 Zombie Categories -- Against Binaries -- 8 Data -- 9 The Crisis of Representation -- Voice -- Language -- Colonization -- 10 Reflexivity and its Discontents -- Part III Diffractive Ethnography -- 11 A Brief Overview of Ethnography -- Qualitative 4.0 -- 12 Thinking with Theory -- 13 Assemblages and Entanglements -- Deleuze and Guattari -- Latour -- Barad -- 14 Diffraction -- Physics and Sociology -- Quantum Philosophy -- Acts of Diffraction -- Nature/Culture Theorizing -- 15 The Liveliness of Matter -- Agency -- Performativity -- How Forests Think -- Liquidity -- Below -- Electric -- Part IV Becoming -- 16 Healing the Nature/Culture Divide -- Natural Resources -- Reimagining the Public -- 17 The Ethics of Entanglements -- References -- Index

The Teaching Writing series publishes user-friendly writing guides penned by authors with publishing records in their subject matter. While ethnographers inevitably write up their findings from the field, many ethnography textbooks focus more on the 'ethno' portion of our craft, and less on developing our 'graph'skills. Gullion fills that gap, helping ethnographers write compelling, authentic stories about their fieldwork. From putting the first few words on the page, to developing a plot line, to publishing, Writing Ethnography offers guidance for all stages of the writing process. Writing prompts throughout the book encourage the development of manuscripts from start to finish. Appropriate for both new and emerging scholars, Writing Ethnography is a useful text for qualitative methods, research methods courses across disciplines

In this project, I explore cancer/environment assemblages as situated in a geographic space identified as having excess cancer incidence. I draw on theories of vibrant materialism to draw interconnections between the cultural and natural experiences of cancer. Through in-depth interviews with cancer patients who attribute their cancer to an environmental cause, I seek to understand how they position themselves within the assemblage. I invite the reader to connect to this assemblage through a rhizome of poetic representation.

Perhaps the best training for students to apply sociology is through hands-on community work. In this article, we write about the experience of a graduate-level qualitative research methods course in taking on an action research project over the course of a semester. We provide a detailed overview of the project along with practical tips for instructors who would like to replicate this pedagogy.

The reality of disability-of what it means to be disabled-has primarily been written by non-disabled people. Disability and disabled individuals are often described with pity, presented as burdens, or are background figures in larger non-disabled narratives. Redefining Disability challenges the outsider-dominated approach to disability by centering the disabled experience. This edited volume, featuring all disabled authors and creators, combines traditional academic works with personal reflections, visual art, and poetry. These works address disability and race, sexuality and disability, disability cultures, accommodation, self-diagnosis, and how we manage the obstacles ableist institutions place in our way. The authors address a variety of disabilities, including sensory, chronic pain, mobility, developmental disorders, and mental illness. It is through these testimonies that we hope to redefine disability on our terms; to clearly state that disability is not a bad word, and that all disabled lives have value. Redefining Disability is interdisciplinary, with broad application for undergraduate courses, graduate seminars, or to read for pleasure. Each entry contains discussion questions and/or activities for educators to use in the classroom

This edited collection deals with intersecting axes of power and privilege in order to advance conversation on motherhood across disciplines. Mother-scholar contributors explore theoretical and disciplinary approaches to academic motherhood, examine its critical and cultural territory, and articulate the challenges of their dual identity.