title: Narrative and narrative enquiry in health and social sciences.
abstract: Increasingly, narrative and life story are being used in health and social sciences, and other disciplines. Narrative analysis assumes multiple forms in a variety of analytic practices, with no single or correct way to analyse stories. This paper explores the concepts and meanings of narrative and narrative enquiry; their ontology and epistemology, and their use as a research method will be discussed as well. Ethics will be addressed briefly. This paper will help readers to grasp the essential elements in understanding narrative and narrative enquiry.
authors.affiliation: School of Nursing, the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China.
authors.forename: Claudia K Y
authors.initials: CK
authors.lastname: Lai
mesh_terms: D006801:Humans; D033262:Narration; D015399:Nursing Research / Q000941:ethics / Q000379:methods*; D012942:Social Sciences