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Kathy's Context: In Spite of…

Janice M. Morse (The University of Utah, USA)

Festschrift in Honour of Kathy Charmaz

ISBN: 978-1-80455-373-2, eISBN: 978-1-80455-372-5

Publication date: 14 November 2022

Abstract

Kathy Charmaz, who survived against all odds and eventually to become an internationally acclaimed qualitative researcher, demonstrated extraordinary resilience and intellect. In this chapter, I describe the ways she lived through her early life, her beginning research as a student, and how she managed the trials of academic life while making an international contribution to understanding the experiences of the chronically ill. In the process she developed Constructivist Grounded Theory, refining her qualitative methods, making them accessible to all, and producing findings that changed the course of qualitive health research.

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Morse, J.M. (2022), "Kathy's Context: In Spite of…", Bryant, A. and Clarke, A.E. (Ed.) Festschrift in Honour of Kathy Charmaz (Studies in Symbolic Interaction, Vol. 56), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 25-36. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0163-239620220000056004

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Emerald Publishing Limited

Copyright © 2023 Janice M. Morse. Published under exclusive licence by Emerald Publishing Limited