Beyond Method provides a forum for scholars across health and human sciences disciplines to explore issues surrounding philosophy, methodology, and epistemology in the context of interpretive scholarship. The essays comprising this volume move beyond the practical descriptions or the "how to" of interpretive methods commonly found in textbooks to explore the contributions, underlying assumptions, limitations, and possibilities embedded within and across particular philosophical, methodological, and epistemological perspectives. They reveal the complexity and richness of understanding that emerges when philosophical issues are explicated within contemporary contexts, illuminating new possibilities for healthcare and human science scholarship.

Pamela M. Ironside is Assistant Professor of Nursing at the University of Wisconsin-Madison.

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Contents
Introduction	000
1. The Retrieval of Method: The Method of Retrieval	000
2. Representing: Interpretive Scholarship's Consummate Challenge	000
3. Shared Inquiry: Socratic-Hermeneutic Interpre-viewing	000
4. Revealing Shape-shifting Through Life-story Narrative	000
5. Combining Interpretive Methodologies: Maximizing the Richness of Findings	000
6. The Thinking of Research	000
7. Beyond the Methods Debate Toward Embodied Ways of Knowing	000
Contributors	000
Index	000