Research Catalog

Title

Interdisciplinary research : diverse approaches in science, technology, health and society / edited by John Atkinson, Malcolm Crowe.

Publication

Chichester, England ; Hoboken, NJ : John Wiley & Sons, [2006], ©2006.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Atkinson, John, 1953-
• Crowe, M. K. (Malcolm K.)

Description

xii, 250 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subjects

• Social medicine > Miscellanea
• Interdisciplinary Communication
• Research Design
• Science > Miscellanea
• Technology > Miscellanea
• Ethics, Research
• Health > Miscellanea

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Research today / Malcolm Crowe -- Studying complexity : are we approaching the limits of science? / Ian Boyd -- A sustainable environment? : a 'lopsided view' of an environmental geochemist / Andrew S. Hursthouse -- Use and abuse of statisticians / Mario Hair -- Research in information systems : mine and my colleagues' / Abel Usoro -- Hearing lips and seeing voices : illusion and serendipity in auditory-visual perception research / John MacDonald -- Research in modern history / Martin Myant -- 'Scientificity' and its alternatives : aspects of philosophy and methodology within media and cultural studies research / Neil Blain -- The truth as personal documentation : an anthropological narrative of hospital portering / Nigel Rapport -- Philosophy, nursing and the nature of evidence / P. Anne Scott -- Researching the spiritual : outcome or process? / Harriet Mowat and John Swinton -- Using narrative in care and research : the patient's journey / John Atkinson.

ISBN

• 1861564708 (paper : alk. paper)
• 9781861564702 (pbk.)

LCCN

• 2006011235
• 9781861564702

OCLC

• ocm65617525
• SCSB-5293758

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries