Joanna Latimer is Professor of Sociology at Cardiff University School of Social Sciences, and Professor in the ESRC Centre for the Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics. She has been researching medical knowledge and practice ethnographically for 30 years.

• Preface. List of Contributors.1. Introducing Fields, Selves, Stories, Texts and Materials.2. Where Do We Stand in Relation to the Data? Being Reflexive About Reflexivity in Health Care Evaluation.3. Moving Nursing Practice: Integrating Theory and Method.4. Participative Observation: Using the Subject Body to Understand Nursing Practice.5. Self and Others: The Rigour and Ethics of Insider Ethnography.6. Researching Story and Narrative in Nursing: An Object-Relations Approach.7. Rational Solutions and Unreliable Narrators: Content, Structure and Voice in Narrative Research.8. Discourse Analysis, Ideology and Professional Practice.9. Words Are Powerful Tools: Discourse Analytic Explanations of Nursing Practice.10. Taking Things Seriously: Studying the Material Culture of Nursing.11. A History of Small Things.12. Studying The Women in White.Epilogue.Index

Joanna Latimer is Professor of Sociology at Cardiff University School of Social Sciences, and Professor in the ESRC Centre for the Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics. She has been researching medical knowledge and practice ethnographically for 30 years.

• Preface. List of Contributors.1. Introducing Fields, Selves, Stories, Texts and Materials.2. Where Do We Stand in Relation to the Data? Being Reflexive About Reflexivity in Health Care Evaluation.3. Moving Nursing Practice: Integrating Theory and Method.4. Participative Observation: Using the Subject Body to Understand Nursing Practice.5. Self and Others: The Rigour and Ethics of Insider Ethnography.6. Researching Story and Narrative in Nursing: An Object-Relations Approach.7. Rational Solutions and Unreliable Narrators: Content, Structure and Voice in Narrative Research.8. Discourse Analysis, Ideology and Professional Practice.9. Words Are Powerful Tools: Discourse Analytic Explanations of Nursing Practice.10. Taking Things Seriously: Studying the Material Culture of Nursing.11. A History of Small Things.12. Studying The Women in White.Epilogue.Index

Joanna Latimer is Professor of Sociology at Cardiff University School of Social Sciences, and Professor in the ESRC Centre for the Economic and Social Aspects of Genomics. She has been researching medical knowledge and practice ethnographically for 30 years.

• Preface. List of Contributors.1. Introducing Fields, Selves, Stories, Texts and Materials.2. Where Do We Stand in Relation to the Data? Being Reflexive About Reflexivity in Health Care Evaluation.3. Moving Nursing Practice: Integrating Theory and Method.4. Participative Observation: Using the Subject Body to Understand Nursing Practice.5. Self and Others: The Rigour and Ethics of Insider Ethnography.6. Researching Story and Narrative in Nursing: An Object-Relations Approach.7. Rational Solutions and Unreliable Narrators: Content, Structure and Voice in Narrative Research.8. Discourse Analysis, Ideology and Professional Practice.9. Words Are Powerful Tools: Discourse Analytic Explanations of Nursing Practice.10. Taking Things Seriously: Studying the Material Culture of Nursing.11. A History of Small Things.12. Studying The Women in White.Epilogue.Index