Rita Sara Schreiber, RN, DNS, is an Associate Professor at he School of Nursing, University of Victoria in British Columbia, Canada.Phyllis Noerager Stern, DNS, FAAN, NAP, holds the position of Professor and Glenn Irwin, Jr., MD Research Scholar at eh School of Nursing and a joint appointment in Women’s Studies at Indiana University, Indianapolis, Indiana.

"This uniformly fine book extends and intensifies the dialogue about grounded theory and nursing... well-designed, well-crafted, and accessible." - Sally A. Hutchinson, PhD, RN, FAAN "...the torch has been passed to a new generation of grounded theorists... The editors have assembled chapters by many of the best-known scholars in North America." - Sandra P. Thomas, PhD, RN, FAAN"

• ContributorsPreface AcknowledgmentsIntroduction Situating Grounded Theory Within Qualitative Inquiry, Janice M. Morse Early Grounded Theory: Its Processes and Products, Phyllis Noerager Stern and Eleanor Krassen Covan Constructing and Deconstructing: Grounded Theory in a Postmodern World, Marjorie MacDonald and Rita Sara Schreiber The "How to" of Grounded Theory: Avoiding the Pitfalls, Rita Sara Schreiber Examining the Differences between Researcher and Participant: An Intrinsic Element of Grounded Theory, Caroline Mallory The Grounded Theory Club, or Who Needs an Expert Mentor? Rita Sara Schreiber Finding a Critical Perspective in Grounded Theory, Marjorie MacDonald Feminist Grounded Theory Revisited: Practical Issues and New Understandings, Judith Wuest and Marilyn Merritt-Gray Can you "Do" Grounded Theory Without Symbolic Interactionism? P. Jane Milliken and Rita Sara SchreiberGrounded Theory and Hermeneutics: Contradictory or Complementary Methods of Nursing Research? Suzanne Pursley-Crotteau, Sheila McGuire Bunting and Claire Burke DrauckerThe Application of Grounded Theory: Issues of Assessment and Measurement in Practice, Wendy Hall and Katharyn A. MayNew Directions in Grounded Formal Theory: Margaret H. KearnyIndex