Qualitative Methods and Health Policy Research

by Elizabeth Murphy

Qualitative researchers have traditionally been cautious about claiming that their work was scientific. The "right-on" schools have exaggerated this caution into an outright rejection of science as a model for their work. Science is, for them, outmoded; "an archaic form of consciousness surviving for a while yet in a degraded form" (Tyler 1986:200). Scientists' assertions that they are in pursuit of truth simply camouflage their own lust for power...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0202307115
• ISBN13: 9780202307114
• Release Date: January 2003
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"