Interdisciplinary Research (eBook)

Diverse Approaches in Science, Technology, Health and Society

John Atkinson, Malcolm Crowe (Herausgeber)

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2006
John Wiley & Sons (Verlag)
978-0-470-02947-3 (ISBN)

Infos

An important book by researchers from across disciplines introducing varying ideas on research, important in these days of inter-disciplinary and multi-centered investigation.

The book introduces academics to new areas of endeavour and encourages researchers and students to think broadly when devising their studies. Linking chapters present the contributions in an historical and theoretical context, identifying the themes between the approaches, and encourages new thinking about old problems. Includes contributions from leading researchers across the quantitative-qualitative spectrum, from marine biology to spirituality.

With funding under increasing pressure, the different views will help departments form new alliances and encourage interdisciplinary working.

Edited by John Atkinson, Associate Dean, University of Paisley, UK and

Professor Malcolm Crowe, Associate Dean, University of Paisley, UK

Inhalt

Cover 1
Contents 7
Contributors 9
Preface 13
1: Research Today 15
2: Studying Complexity: Are We Approaching the Limits of Science? 39
3: A Sustainable Environment? The ‘Lopsided View’ of an Environmental Geochemist 55
4: Use and Abuse of Statisticians 69
5: Research in Information Systems – Mine and My Colleagues’ 89
6: Hearing Lips and Seeing Voices: Illusion and Serendipity in Auditory-Visual Perception Research 115
7: Research in Modern History 131
8: ‘Scientificity’ and its Alternatives: Aspects of Philosophy and Methodology within Media and Cultural Studies Research 149
9: The Truth as Personal Documentation: An Anthropological Narrative of Hospital Portering 169
10: Philosophy, Nursing and the Nature of Evidence 189
11: Researching the Spiritual: Outcome or Process? 205
12: Using Narrative in Care and Research: The Patient’s Journey 227
Index 253

Rezensionen

""A celebration of research approaches" is an apt and accurate depiction of the debate laid before the reader of this text." (Accident and Emergency Nursing Journal, October 2007)

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 2.11.2006
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Pflege
• Schlagworte: academic • academics • APPROACHES • Areas • Between • Book • broadly • Chapters • ConText • Course • disciplines • encourages • Endeavour • Experience • Historical • Interdisciplinary • introduces • Krankenpflege • New • nursing • Paisley • Pflege • Research • research degree • Supervision • University
• ISBN-10: 0-470-02947-1 / 0470029471
• ISBN-13: 978-0-470-02947-3 / 9780470029473