Health Education Research, Vol. 17, No. 3, 377-379,
June 2002
© 2002 Oxford University Press
BOOK REVIEW |
Methods of Family Research
Theodore Greenstein Sage, London, 2001 186 pp, ISBN 0-761919481 (pb)
University of Brighton UK
There are many good books currently available on research methods. An increasing number are said to be written with specific reference to individual professions: Titles such as `Research Methods in Nursing Practice' or `Research Methods for Podiatrists' abound. This reviewer's advice to undergraduate students is generally to look at a range of them, but not to feel obliged to buy the one that claims to be specifically for their own discipline. Most research skills are common to all professions and areas of study; the only real difference between most of such books lies in the examples that are used to illustrate the principles described and the quality of the
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