Social Theory & Applied Health Research

The book aims to provide a resource for the increasing number of students, including students from professional backgrounds, who wish to undertake social research at an advanced level, but who are dissatisfied with the assumptions of traditional research on the one hand and the inaccessibility of complex philosophies of research on the other. The book aims to provide an accessible assessment of dilemmas facing social researchers in trying to make sense of the world in health care. It further tries to link theory and method, neither by rejecting wholesale particular forms of research, nor by accepting the possibility of triangulation at a philosophical level, but by presenting an account of how reflection on a field of possibilities can help amend, complement and strengthen a practical research strategy.