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EH dE i teR dM b yE SN uE s aU n CT I roC w tP hH e r anEN dO GM i llE TN hO o mL sO onG Y I N H E A L T HERMENEUTIC PHENOMENOLOGY H A N D IN HEALTH AND SOCIAL CARE S O C I A RESEARCH L C A R E R Edited by Susan Crowther and Gill Thomson E S E A R C H Hermeneutic Phenomenology in Health and Social Care Research This book explores how, why and when hermeneutic phenomenology can be used as a methodology in health and social research. Providing actual examples of doing robust hermeneutic phenomenology and a focus on praxis, the book demonstrates how philosophical or theoretical notions can inform, enrich and enhance our research projects. The chapters offer examples of many different research designs and interpretive decisions in order to illustrate the unbounded and creative nature of this type of inquiry, whilst also demonstrating the trustworthiness of the scientific processes adopted. The chap- ter authors invite the reader on a unique journey that highlights how they made individual and tailored decisions throughout their projects, emphasising the chal- lenges and joys they encountered. This book is a valuable resource for all students and academics who wish to explore the meaningfulness of human lived experiences across the multitude of phenomena in health and social care. Susan Crowther is a Professor of midwifery at Auckland University of Technol- ogy in Aotearoa, New Zealand. Her research interests are mainly focused on midwifery, maternity and women’s health, although she explores myriad topics with postgraduate students from a variety of disciplines/professions. She has published two books: “Joy at birth” (sole author), “Spirituality and Childbirth” with co- editor Dr. Jenny Hall and another book coming in 2022: “Mindfulness across the childbirth sphere” with co-editor Dr. Lorna Davies. Susan is a member of three editorial boards, sits on review panels and enjoys supervising postgraduate degrees. Contacts/links: E. [email protected] – Twitter: @SusanCrowtherMW – Blog/webpage: https://drsusancrowther.com/. Gill Thomson is a Professor in Perinatal Health at the University of Central Lancashire in North-West, U.K. Gill’s research interests centre around perinatal health and wellbeing and lay/peer support models of care. Gill’s used hermeneutic phenomenology in her Ph.D., she supervises Ph.D. students using this approach, and she co-facilitates the annual hermeneutic phenomenology methodology course with Susan. Gill has authored over 100 peer-reviewed publica- tions and is the lead editor of two Routledge texts (Qualitative research in childbirth and midwifery: Phenomenological approaches (2011), and Psychosocial resilience and risk in the perinatal period: Implications and guidance for professionals (2017)). Gill is an editorial member of two journals and a steering group member of SCENE (SCENE | SCENE (utu.fi) – an international network dedicated to improving neonatal care. Contacts/links: Email – [email protected]; Twitter @gill_ thomson; Webpage – Gill Thomson – UCLan. Hermeneutic Phenomenology in Health and Social Care Research Edited by Susan Crowther and Gill Thomson First published 2023 by Routledge 4 Park Square, Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4RN and by Routledge 605 Third Avenue, New York, NY 10158 Routledge is an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, an informa business © 2023 selection and editorial matter, Susan Crowther and Gill Thomson; individual chapters, the contributors The right of Susan Crowther and Gill Thomson to be identified as the authors of the editorial material, and of the authors for their individual chapters, has been asserted in accordance with sections 77 and 78 of the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988. All rights reserved. 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To all our colleagues who came before who shared their wisdom and vision – we acknowledge we stand upon the shoulders of giants as we reach out for further understanding about the experience of being human. As we all walk our paths, we acknowledge that the way is decorated and illuminated by the lessons and teachings of the past; and as we think, write and encourage ourselves and others, we are reminded that we are the inspiration that we have been waiting for. Contents List of Figures ix List of Tables x List of Contributors xi Foreword by Christine Dinkins xiv Acknowledgements xvii 1 Introduction: Situating hermeneutic phenomenology as research method in health, social care and education 1 SUSAN CROWTHER AND GILL THOMSON 2 Nurturing a spirit of attuning-to 21 LIZ SMYTHE AND DEB SPENCE 3 Using poetry to illuminate the lived accounts of Juvenile Dermatomyositis in children and young people 37 POLLY LIVERMORE 4 Revealing experiences of sexuality and intimacy in life-limiting illness using Heidegger’s phenomenology 54 BRIDGET TAYLOR 5 ‘Distracted by, and immersed in the talk of others’: Expectations and experiences of childbirth in the framework of the “They” 73 LESLEY KAY 6 Seeking Heidegger in research data: Thinking about connections between philosophy and findings 92 LESLEY DIBLEY viii Contents 7 Embodied hermeneutic phenomenology: Bringing the lived body into health professions education research 110 HELEN F. HARRISON AND ELIZABETH ANNE KINSELLA 8 Dwelling in the fourfold: My way of being-in-the-world of Heidegger 132 MARGOT SOLOMON 9 Working with phenomenon: Just keep swimming 148 CHRISTINE EDWARDS 10 Being an educator as “having-been” 167 JOSHUA SPIER 11 Straddling paradigms: A hermeneutic phenomenological exploration of the experience of midwives practising homeopathy 180 JEAN DUCKWORTH 12 Inseeing to the heart of the matter 196 KENT SMITH 13 Attuning to trustworthiness and final reflections 213 GILL THOMSON AND SUSAN CROWTHER Index 228 Figures 1.1 Definitions of Methods and Methodology 8 1.2 Three Levels 14 1.3 Circular Repetition of the Interpretive Process 15 4.1 The Iterative Process of Hermeneutic Understanding 59 7.1 Helen’s Auto/Body Map – Educator Strengths: Loving Gaze and Heart 119 7.2 Body Map of Participant Co-Researcher “James” 121 7.3 Photograph of Colour-Coded Mind Map Themes by Helen & Participant Co-Researcher Sophie 124 8.1 The Thing and the Fourfold 135 8.2 The Phenomenon, Teaching and Learning as Relating 138 9.1 My Journey of Re-covering Meaning 150 9.2 Drawing to Express the Emergent Theme Safe at Home 158 9.3 Drawing to Express the Emergent Theme Care Full Mattering 159 11.1 Analysis of Data 186 11.2 Themes 187