Research Methods in Health Humanities

Craig Klugman, Ph.D., is Professor of Bioethics and Health Humanities at DePaul University. He serves on the ethics committee at Northwestern University Hospital. He is the author of over 450 articles, book chapters, op-eds, and blog posts on such topics as bioethics, digital medicine, professionalism, end-of-life issues, public health ethics, research ethics, education, health/medical humanities, ethics of execution, and health policy. He is the blog editor and frequent writer for bioethics.net as well as creator of the BioethicsTV column. Dr. Klugman is the editor of several books including Research Methods in the Health Humanities (Oxford University Press, 2019), Medical Ethics (Gale Cengage, 2016), and Ethical Issues in Rural Health (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013; 2008). He has been interviewed for The New York Times, AARP News, Nightline, Vice, and national radio. Besides numerous academic journals, his writing has appeared in Pacific Standard Magazine,Huffington Post, LifeMattersMedia, Chicago Tribune, Medium, Cato Unbound, The Hill, San Francisco Chronicle, and the Houston Chronicle.Erin Gentry Lamb, Ph.D., is Herbert L. and Pauline Wentz Andrews Professor of Biomedical Humanities and Director of the Center for Literature and Medicine at Hiram College in Ohio. Her research interests focus on the social and ethical consequences of anti-aging consumer culture and medicine, ageism, the connections between age studies and disability studies, and the pedagogy of health humanities and age studies, including co-authoring a comprehensive report on Health Humanities Baccalaureate Programs in the United States and co-editing a special issue of The Journal of Medical Humanities focused on "Pre-Health Humanities" (2017). Her scholarly work has appeared in The Health and Humanities Reader, The Journal of Medical Humanities, The International Journal of Aging and Society, and Age, Culture, Humanities. A founding member ofthe North American Network in Aging Studies, she serves on the executive committee of the MLA's Forum on Medical Humanities and Health Studies.

• Introduction: Raising the Health HumanitiesCraig M. Klugman and Erin Gentry Lamb Chapter 1. Denotation and ConnotationSylvia A. Pamboukian Chapter 2. Analyzing MetaphorsAnita Wohlmann Chapter 3. Critical Approaches to Life-WritingAllison Crawford Chapter 4. Reading FilmLorenzo Servitje Chapter 5. Comics as a Research Method in Health HumanitiesMuna Al-Jawad and MK Czerwiec Chapter 6. Art History Siobhan M. Conaty Chapter 7. Archives Claire D. Clark Chapter 8. Health and Social Justice StudiesSarah Berry Chapter 9. Age Studies and Disability StudiesErin Gentry Lamb and Rebecca Garden Chapter 10. American StudiesAmy Rubens Chapter 11. Digital Health HumanitiesKirsten Ostherr Chapter 12. Ethnography Eileen Anderson-Fye and Vanessa Hildebrand Chapter 13. AutoethnographyRose Richards Chapter 14. Community DialoguesPeggy L. Determeyer and Jerome W. Crowder Chapter 15. InterviewsCraig M. Klugman Chapter 16. Fiction WritingLise Saffran Chapter 17. SurveysCraig M. Klugman Chapter 18. Mixed Methods Program Evaluation Deepthiman Gowda, Tayla Curran, and Dorene F. Balmer Chapter 19. Evidence Synthesis Methods Stacey Springs and Jay Baruch

This book is a wonderful resource for anyone interested in researching the health humanities. In following the advice of the authors, new researchers will be able to produce a reliable document of their work for the betterment of the field. I recommend everyone working or hoping to work in the field of health humanities to read this book and use it as a constant reference and guide.