Developing Grounded Theory (Hardback) | Released: 01 Jun 2008

Grounded theory is the most popular genre of qualitative research used in the health professions and is widely used elsewhere in the research world. In this volume, six key grounded theory methodologists examine the history, principles, and practices of this method, highlighting areas in which different strands of the methods diverge. Chapters cover the work of Anselm Strauss, Barney Glaser, Leonard Schatzman, and the postmodern and constructivist schools. Dialogues between the participants sharpen the debate and show key topics of agreement and disagreement. This volume will be ideal for courses on grounded theory that wish to show the ways in which it can be used in research studies.
About the Author: Janice Morse holds the Barnes Presidential Endowed Chair in the College of Nursing at University of Utah. Trained as an anthropologist, she founded and is former director of the International Institute for Qualitative Methodology at University of Alberta, where she taught for many years. She is author or editor of numerous volumes on qualitative research in health care and nursing and has been conducting mixed method research since the 1970s. Morse founded and edits the journal Qualitative Health Research. Her most recent books are Developing Grounded Theory (2008) and Mixed Method Design (2009).

Phyllis Noerager Stern, DNS, LLD (hon.), RN, FAAN, was Professor Emerita and Glenn W. Irwin, MD Research Scholar at Indiana University Purdue University at Indianapolis. She studied with Barney G Glaser and Anselm Strauss while pursuing her doctoral degree at the University of California, San Francisco in the 1970s. Over the ensuing decades, she was engaged in doing grounded theory and publishing both research and methodological articles and book chapters. In 1994, she coined the terms Strausian and Glaserian to label the two schools of grounded theory analysis. Phyllis was known for her mentoring ability; as editor of the scientific journal Health Care for Women International from 1984 to 2001, she launched numerous first-time authors. In 1984 she organized the International Council on Women's Health Issues in Nova Scotia, Canada, and held the position of Council General until 2002. Phyllis held faculty positions at California State University Hayward, University of California San Francisco, Northwestern State University at Shreveport, Louisiana, and Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia. In 2008 she was named a Living Legend by the American Academy of Nursing.