Interdisciplinary research : diverse approaches in science, technology, health, and society / edited by John Atkinson and Malcolm Crowe.

Includes bibliographical references and index

Research today / Malcolm Crowe -- Studying complexity / Ian Boyd -- A sustainable environment? A "lopsided view" of an environmental geochemist / Andrew S. Hursthouse -- Use and abuse of statistics / Mario Hair -- Research in information systems: mine and my colleagues / Abel Usoro -- Hearing lips and seeing voices: illusion and serendipity in auditory-visual perception research / John MacDonald -- Research in modern history / Martin Myant -- "Scientificity" and its alternatives: aspects of philosophy and methodology within media and cultural studies research / Neil Blain -- The truth as personal documentation: an anthropological narrative of hospital portering / Nigel Rapport -- Philosophy, nursing and the nature of evidence / P. Anne Scott -- Researching the spiritual: outcome or process / Harriet Mowat and John Swinton -- Using narrative in care and research: the patient's journey / John Atkinson