Research Methods in Health Humanities

Description

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. Research Methods in Health Humanities Copyright Dedication Contents Contributors Introduction: Raising Health Humanities SECTION I. TEXTS 1. Denotation and Connotation 2. Analyzing Metaphors 3. Critical Approaches to Life-​Writing 4. Reading Film 5. Comics 6. Art History 7. Archives SECTION II. CONTEXTS 8. Health and Social Justice Studies 9. Age Studies and Disability Studies 10. American Studies 11. Digital Health Humanities SECTION III. PEOPLE 12. Ethnography 13. Autoethnography 14. Community Dialogues 15. Interviews 16. Fiction Writing SECTION IV. PROGRAMS 17. Surveys 18. Mixed Methods Program Evaluation 19. Evidence Synthesis Methods Index