With funding agencies demanding interdiscipli-nary proposals, team research is fast
becoming the key to successful grant applications. This trend is supported in universities …

The dialectic of collaborative research is that it is at once the most exciting and most difficult
scientific path one can walk. On one side, uniquely innovative ideas are synthesized and …

Qualitative inquiry has made an important contribu-tion to our understanding of health and
illness over the past 40 years, and QHR is now entering its 18th year of publication. Perhaps …

Ibelieve that qualitative inquiry is more than a collection of technical strategies—it is a way of
thinking. Qualitative methods, as a class of research, is particular way of approaching …

Given that qualitative inquiry is based on communication—on the collection of stories,
narratives, and descriptions of others' experiences—the fact that so little is generally known …

There is a widely held belief among researchers and granting bodies that although
qualitative research is essential for establishing a solid research program, qualitative …

The author presents his views for breaking from the traditional order (“Chapter Two” in many
studies) and segregation of topics—literature review, theory, and method—in favor of …

Factors such as the inductive nature of the research process; the fact that the researcher
(rather than external criteria or standards) determines saturation; the lack of detailed …

Theory is integral to the practice of qualitative research in health. Theory is useful in this
sense when it informs, and is informed by, practical, empirical qualitative research. This …

284 QUALITATIVE HEALTH RESEARCH/August 1991 to replicate or to test theory. If the
article does not contain any new and unique information, the review process does not …