The social construction of illness is a major research perspective in medical sociology. This
article traces the roots of this perspective and presents three overarching constructionist …

Over the last quarter of a century, research on the illness experience has thrived.
Publications on this subject are reviewed in relation to three themes: subjectivity; coping …

Welche Bedingungen tragen zur Entstehung von körperlichen und psychischen Krankheiten
bei? Was erhält Menschen gesund? Welche Anforderungen sollte eine wissenschaftlich …

Interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) is a qualitative research approach committed
to the examination of how people make sense of their major life experiences. It originated …

While the main structural features of this book remain in place, individual chapters have
undergone considerable updating and refreshing. The design of the book has also been …

This paper introduces interpretative phenomenological analysis (PA) and discusses the
particular contribution it can make to health psychology. This is contextualized within current …

In this paper, we discuss two complementary commitments of interpretative
phenomenological analysis (IPA): the phenomenological requirement to understand and …

This chapter introduces one particular form of qualitative analysis, interpretative
phenomenological analysis (IPA) and takes the reader through the stages of conducting …

Most qualitative research had its origins in philosophical traditions such as phenomenology,
pragmatism, and constructivism, which argue that all the knowledge that we can obtain (both …

Taking a cue from Erving Goffman's classic work, Asylums, Tia DeNora develops a novel
interdisciplinary framework for music, health and wellbeing. Considering health and illness …