Main 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.

Contents:

Introduction: Raising the Health Humanities
Craig M. Klugman and Erin Gentry Lamb

Chapter 1. Denotation and Connotation
Sylvia A. Pamboukian

Chapter 2. Analyzing Metaphors
Anita Wohlmann

Chapter 3. Critical Approaches to Life-Writing
Allison Crawford

Chapter 4. Reading Film
Lorenzo Servitje

Chapter 5. Comics as a Research Method in Health Humanities
Muna Al-Jawad and MK Czerwiec

Chapter 6. Art History
Siobhan M. Conaty

Chapter 7. Archives
Claire D. Clark

Chapter 8. Health and Social Justice Studies
Sarah Berry

Chapter 9. Age Studies and Disability Studies
Erin Gentry Lamb and Rebecca Garden

Chapter 10. American Studies
Amy Rubens

Chapter 11. Digital Health Humanities
Kirsten Ostherr

Chapter 12. Ethnography
Eileen Anderson-Fye and Vanessa Hildebrand

Chapter 13. Autoethnography
Rose Richards

Chapter 14. Community Dialogues
Peggy L. Determeyer and Jerome W. Crowder

Chapter 15. Interviews
Craig M. Klugman

Chapter 16. Fiction Writing
Lise Saffran

Chapter 17. Surveys
Craig 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