Denotation and connotation / Sylvia A. Pamboukian -- Analyzing metaphors / Anita Wohlmann -- Critical approaches to life-writing / Allison Crawford -- Reading film / Lorenzo Servitje -- Comics / Muna Al-Jawad and MK Czerwiec -- Art history / Siobhan M. Conaty -- Archives / Claire D. Clark -- Health and social justice studies / Sarah L. Berry -- Age studies and disability studies / Erin Gentry Lamb and Rebecca Garden -- American studies / Amy Rubens -- Digital health humanities / Kirsten Ostherr -- Ethnography / Eileen Anderson-Fye and Vanessa M. Hildebrand -- Autoethnography / Rose Richards -- Community dialogues / Peggy L. Determeyer and Jerome W. Crowder -- Interviews / Craig M. Klugman -- Fiction writing / Lise Saffran -- Surveys / Craig M. Klugman -- Mixed methods program evaluation / Deepthiman Gowda, Tayla Curran, and Dorene F. Balmer -- Evidence synthesis methods / Stacey Springs and Jay Baruch.
Summary:
"Research Methods in Health Humanities surveys the diverse and unique research methods used by scholars in the growing, transdisciplinary field of health humanities. Appropriate for advanced undergraduates, but rich enough to engage more seasoned students and scholars, this volume is an essential teaching and reference tool for health humanities teachers and scholars. Health humanities is a field committed to social justice and to applying expertise to real world concerns, creating research that translates to participants and communities in meaningful and useful ways. The chapters in this field-defining volume reflect these values by examining the human aspects of health and health care that are critical, reflective, textual, contextual, qualitative, and quantitative. Divided into four sections, the volume demonstrates how to conduct research on texts, contexts, people, and programs. Readers will find research methods from traditional disciplines adapted to health humanities work, such as close reading of diverse texts, archival research, ethnography, interviews, and surveys. The book also features transdisciplinary methods unique to the health humanities, such as health and social justice studies, digital health humanities, and community dialogues. Each chapter provides learning objectives, step-by-step instructions, resources, and exercises, with illustrations of the method provided by the authors' own research. An invaluable tool in learning, curricular development, and research design, this volume provides a grounding in the traditions of the humanities, fine arts, and social sciences for students considering health care careers, but also provides useful tools of inquiry for everyone, as we are all future patients and future caregivers of a loved one."--Provided by publisher.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.