Is it Really “Yesterday’s War”? What Gadamer Has to Say About What Gets Counted
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https://doi.org/10.11575/jah.v0i0.53302Keywords:
Qualitative research, hermeneutics, rigor, narratives, experience, funding of research, publishing qualitative findingsAbstract
In this paper, the authors address the perceived recent trend of funding and publishing bodies that seem to have taken a regard of qualitative research as a subordinate to, or even a subset of, quantitative research. In this reflection, they pull on insights that Hans-Georg Gadamer offered around the history of the natural and human science bifurcation, ending with a plea that qualitative research needs to be received, appraised, judged, and promoted by different lenses and criteria of value.
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Greenhalgh, T., Annandale, E., Ashcroft, R., Barlow, J., Black, N., Bleakley, A., Boaden, R. Braithwaite, J., …Ziebland, S. (2016). An open letter to The BMJ editors on qualitative research. The BMJ, 352, 1-4. doi: 10.1136/bmj.i563
Laing, C.M., & Moules, N.J. (2015). “It’s not just camp!” Understanding the meaning of children’s cancer camps for children and families. Journal of Pediatric Oncology Nursing, 33, 33-44. doi: 10.1177/1043454214563934
Moules, N.J. (2010). Invited editorial. How do you feel something when there is no word for it? Reflections on grief in Brazil - - Teaching, nursing, and research. Revista da Escola de Enfermagem da USP (Journal of School of Nursing University of Sao Paulo), 44(2), 243-249. ISSN: 00806234
Moules, N.J., Estefan, A., McCaffrey, G., Tapp, D.M., & Strother, D. (2016a). Differences and trading: Examining the effects of childhood cancer on the parental subsystem. Part one. Journal of Family Nursing, 22(4), 515-539. doi: 10.1177/1074840716668102
Moules, N.J., Estefan, A., McCaffrey, G., Tapp, D.TM, & Strother, D. (2016b). Taking one for the team: Examining the effects of childhood cancer on the parental subsystem. Part two. Journal of Family Nursing, 22(4), 540-558. doi: 10.117/1074840716675985
Moules, N.J., Estefan, A., McCaffrey, G., Tapp, D.M, & Strother, D. (2016c). Examining the effects of childhood cancer on the parental subsystem: Implications for parents and healthcare professionals. Part three. Journal of Family Nursing, 22(4), 559-578. doi: 10.1177/1074840716675986
Moules, N.J., McCaffrey, G., Field, J.C., & Laing, C.M. (2015). Conducting hermeneutic research: From philosophy to practice. New York, NY: Peter Lang.
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