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Book SynopsisEthnographers spend a tremendous amount of time in the field, collecting all sorts of empirical material—but how do they turn their work into books or articles that people actually want to read? This concise, engaging guide will help academic writers at all levels to write better. Many ethnography textbooks focus more on the ‘ethno’ portion of our craft, and less on developing our ‘graph’ skills. Gullion fills that gap, helping ethnographers write compelling, authentic stories about their fieldwork. From putting the first few words on the page, to developing a plot line, to publishing, Writing Ethnography offers guidance for all stages of the writing process.Trade Review"Jessica Smartt Gullion writes with conversational, reader-friendly prose about the craft and art of scholarly storytelling. She expertly demonstrates how to follow the essential rules of academic writing and how and when to break them. Dr. Gullion titles her work with 'ethnography,' but the pragmatic guidance in this book also applies to other genres of qualitative inquiry such as phenomenology, case study, grounded theory, and autoethnography. This is an essential resource for novice and veteran researchers to enhance their written documentation of fieldwork, and an ideal textbook for courses and workshops in scholarly composition." – Johnny Saldaña, Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University, author of The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers (now in its fourth edition) and co-author of Qualitative Research: Analyzing Life (second edition) "Ethnographic fields are contested territories and terrains because even as we ethnographers work and live in our fields, we carry them with us wherever we go—in our notes, memories, dreams, reveries, and bodies. We shuttle between here and there and here. We try to translate between the ethnographic moments when and where we saw, heard, felt and the ethnographic presents, when and where we are seeing, hearing, and feeling, presently. Many things are lost, but much newness is found in these temporal and geographical crossings. Ethnographic writing is nothing if not an unruly dance, an orchestral attempt to write in-between these crossings, an attempt to untangle, in text or performance, what was experienced, what is remembered, and what is to be written, in the ‘now.’ It is a kind of writing that is always answering what I believe are two questions that ethnographers like Jessica Smartt Gullion are committed to—how to tell this story? And how to tell it well? In Writing Ethnography, Gullion takes on the daunting task of how such a dance can be led and be led with care and rigor. I highly recommend this book to any student and practitioner of the ethnographic method. It is much needed and essential." – Devika Chawla, Professor of Communication Studies, Ohio University and editor-in-chief of Departures in Critical Qualitative Research "Writing Ethnography is engaging and accessible, yet still grounded in solid scholarship—the essence of good public scholarship. Gullion makes the mysterious process of writing a lot less mysterious, and actually quite straightforward. She does this, in part, by sharing her own relationship with writing, including the banes of every writer—panic, writer’s block, and the academic’s desire to sound smart which often obscures the whole point of sharing the research. She also fills the book with concrete examples, suggested approaches, and practical advice. The new edition includes an expanded and extremely useful section on editing (the most disregarded phase of writing). A particular strength of the book is that Gullion speaks to the reader directly, creating a connection that functions much like a trusted friend. Her generous spirit spills off the page. She includes writing prompts that help the reader to make concrete connections to the points she is making. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, Gullion emphasizes that all research, especially ethnography, is basically about telling stories that matter. After all, as Thomas King reminds us, the truth about stories is that’s all we are." – Rosemary C. Reilly, PhD, Full Professor in the Department of Applied Human Sciences, Concordia University, Montreal "Jessica Smartt Gullion’s Writing Ethnography is a valuable resource not only in my dance ethnography classes, but also in my work with MA and PhD students at the thesis and dissertation writing stage. The book provides pithy guidance for graduate students and emerging scholars for transforming their data into prose that transports readers into the field sites, bringing research participants to life on the page. Writing Ethnography is a beautiful and accessible primer on how to ‘show, don’t tell,’ and produce polished, publishable work." – Rosemary Candelario, PhD, Associate Professor of Dance, Texas Woman’s University and co-editor of the forthcoming book Dance ResearchTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures About the Author Introduction  1 Changes from the First Edition 1 On Ethnography  1 A (Very) Brief History of Ethnography  2 Why Ethnography?  3 Ethical Issues in Ethnographic Writing  4 Fieldnotes 2 On Storytelling  1 Types of Tales  2 Creative Nonfijiction in Ethnography  3 What Makes a Story Great?  4 Story Arcs  5 Vignettes  6 Evocative Storytelling  7 Vulnerability in Writing  8 Reflexivity and Difffraction 3 On Technical Considerations  1 Writing Rituals  2 Academic Fanfijiction  3 The Art of the Sentence  4 First, Second, or Third Person  5 Active/Passive  6 The Trouble with Adverbs  7 Audience  8 Show, Don’t Tell  9 Voice  10 Writing the Voices of Our Participants  11 Characters  12 Conversations  13 Metaphorically Speaking  14 Integrating the Literature 4 On Refinement  1 Editing  2 On Sounding Smart  3 What to Call This Thing? 5 On Writing as Process  1 Getting Started  2 Writing as Process  3 Writing as Inquiry  4 Doing the Unstuck  5 The Panic Attack  6 Framing and Publishing  7 Revise and Resubmit  8 Writing to Connect, Writing for Social Change Appendix: Writing Prompts References Index

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Book SynopsisEthnographers spend a tremendous amount of time in the field, collecting all sorts of empirical material—but how do they turn their work into books or articles that people actually want to read? This concise, engaging guide will help academic writers at all levels to write better. Many ethnography textbooks focus more on the ‘ethno’ portion of our craft, and less on developing our ‘graph’ skills. Gullion fills that gap, helping ethnographers write compelling, authentic stories about their fieldwork. From putting the first few words on the page, to developing a plot line, to publishing, Writing Ethnography offers guidance for all stages of the writing process.Trade Review"Jessica Smartt Gullion writes with conversational, reader-friendly prose about the craft and art of scholarly storytelling. She expertly demonstrates how to follow the essential rules of academic writing and how and when to break them. Dr. Gullion titles her work with 'ethnography,' but the pragmatic guidance in this book also applies to other genres of qualitative inquiry such as phenomenology, case study, grounded theory, and autoethnography. This is an essential resource for novice and veteran researchers to enhance their written documentation of fieldwork, and an ideal textbook for courses and workshops in scholarly composition." – Johnny Saldaña, Professor Emeritus, Arizona State University, author of The Coding Manual for Qualitative Researchers (now in its fourth edition) and co-author of Qualitative Research: Analyzing Life (second edition) "Ethnographic fields are contested territories and terrains because even as we ethnographers work and live in our fields, we carry them with us wherever we go—in our notes, memories, dreams, reveries, and bodies. We shuttle between here and there and here. We try to translate between the ethnographic moments when and where we saw, heard, felt and the ethnographic presents, when and where we are seeing, hearing, and feeling, presently. Many things are lost, but much newness is found in these temporal and geographical crossings. Ethnographic writing is nothing if not an unruly dance, an orchestral attempt to write in-between these crossings, an attempt to untangle, in text or performance, what was experienced, what is remembered, and what is to be written, in the ‘now.’ It is a kind of writing that is always answering what I believe are two questions that ethnographers like Jessica Smartt Gullion are committed to—how to tell this story? And how to tell it well? In Writing Ethnography, Gullion takes on the daunting task of how such a dance can be led and be led with care and rigor. I highly recommend this book to any student and practitioner of the ethnographic method. It is much needed and essential." – Devika Chawla, Professor of Communication Studies, Ohio University and editor-in-chief of Departures in Critical Qualitative Research "Writing Ethnography is engaging and accessible, yet still grounded in solid scholarship—the essence of good public scholarship. Gullion makes the mysterious process of writing a lot less mysterious, and actually quite straightforward. She does this, in part, by sharing her own relationship with writing, including the banes of every writer—panic, writer’s block, and the academic’s desire to sound smart which often obscures the whole point of sharing the research. She also fills the book with concrete examples, suggested approaches, and practical advice. The new edition includes an expanded and extremely useful section on editing (the most disregarded phase of writing). A particular strength of the book is that Gullion speaks to the reader directly, creating a connection that functions much like a trusted friend. Her generous spirit spills off the page. She includes writing prompts that help the reader to make concrete connections to the points she is making. Finally, and perhaps most importantly, Gullion emphasizes that all research, especially ethnography, is basically about telling stories that matter. After all, as Thomas King reminds us, the truth about stories is that’s all we are." – Rosemary C. Reilly, PhD, Full Professor in the Department of Applied Human Sciences, Concordia University, Montreal "Jessica Smartt Gullion’s Writing Ethnography is a valuable resource not only in my dance ethnography classes, but also in my work with MA and PhD students at the thesis and dissertation writing stage. The book provides pithy guidance for graduate students and emerging scholars for transforming their data into prose that transports readers into the field sites, bringing research participants to life on the page. Writing Ethnography is a beautiful and accessible primer on how to ‘show, don’t tell,’ and produce polished, publishable work." – Rosemary Candelario, PhD, Associate Professor of Dance, Texas Woman’s University and co-editor of the forthcoming book Dance ResearchTable of ContentsAcknowledgments List of Figures About the Author Introduction  1 Changes from the First Edition 1 On Ethnography  1 A (Very) Brief History of Ethnography  2 Why Ethnography?  3 Ethical Issues in Ethnographic Writing  4 Fieldnotes 2 On Storytelling  1 Types of Tales  2 Creative Nonfijiction in Ethnography  3 What Makes a Story Great?  4 Story Arcs  5 Vignettes  6 Evocative Storytelling  7 Vulnerability in Writing  8 Reflexivity and Difffraction 3 On Technical Considerations  1 Writing Rituals  2 Academic Fanfijiction  3 The Art of the Sentence  4 First, Second, or Third Person  5 Active/Passive  6 The Trouble with Adverbs  7 Audience  8 Show, Don’t Tell  9 Voice  10 Writing the Voices of Our Participants  11 Characters  12 Conversations  13 Metaphorically Speaking  14 Integrating the Literature 4 On Refinement  1 Editing  2 On Sounding Smart  3 What to Call This Thing? 5 On Writing as Process  1 Getting Started  2 Writing as Process  3 Writing as Inquiry  4 Doing the Unstuck  5 The Panic Attack  6 Framing and Publishing  7 Revise and Resubmit  8 Writing to Connect, Writing for Social Change Appendix: Writing Prompts References Index

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Book SynopsisThe definition of a healthcare system evolves continuously, becoming broader and more complex with each rendering. Healthcare systems can consist of many different elements, including but not limited to: access to comprehensive medical care, health promotion, disease prevention, institutional framework, financing schemes, government responsibility over health, etc. In light of its broad classification of healthcare, this book focuses on a wide spectrum of health-related issues ranging from risk factors for disease to medical treatment and possible frameworks for healthcare systems. Aging populations, increasing costs of healthcare, advancing technology, and challenges created by the COVID-19 pandemic require an innovative conceptual and methodological framework. By combining the experience and effort of researchers from a variety of fields including mathematics, medicine and economics, this book offers an interdisciplinary approach to studying health-related issues. It contributes to the existing literature by integrating the perspective of treatment with the economic determinants of health care outcomes, such as population density, access to financial resources and institutional frameworks. It also provides new evidence regarding the pharmaceutical industry including innovation, international trade and company performance. Contributors are: Sayansk Da Silva, Joe Feinglass, Scott W. Hegerty, Joseph E. Hibdon, Jr, Arkadiusz Michał Kowalski, Małgorzata Stefania Lewandowska, Dawid Majcherek, Ewelina Nojszewska, Izabela Pruchnicka-Grabias, Agata Sielska and Julian Smółka.Table of ContentsAcknowledgement List of Figures and Tables Introduction  Marzenna Anna Weresa, Christina Ciecierski and Lidia Filus PART 1: Modeling of Diseases’ Risk Factors: Implications for Patients’ Treatment 1 Racial, Ethnic and Socioeconomic Disparities in Lung and Breast Cancer Outcomes  Joe Feinglass 2 Reducing Cancer Mortality: A Cluster Analysis of Risk Factors for Lung Cancer across EU Countries  Dawid Majcherek, Marzenna Anna Weresa and Christina Ciecierski 3 Trends in Incidence of Zoonotic Foodborne Diseases in the United States in 2010–2019  Sayansk Da Silva and Joseph E. Hibdon, Jr. PART 2: Determinants of Public Health Outcomes 4 Institutional Analysis of Healthcare Systems in Selected Developed Countries  Julian Smółka 5 Value Based Healthcare (VBHC) as a Tool for Achieving Clinical Effectiveness  Ewelina Nojszewska and Agata Sielska 6 Meeting Grand Challenges: Assessment of Horizon 2020 Health, Demographic Change and Wellbeing Projects  Małgorzata Stefania Lewandowska 7 Bank Density, Population Density, and Economic Deprivation across the United States: Implications for Public Health Outcomes  Scott W. Hegerty PART 3: Pharmaceutical Industry: Innovation, Trade, and Company Performance 8 Healthcare Systems and Pharmaceutical Industry in Emerging and Developed Economies: China and Poland versus the US and the EU  Arkadiusz Michał Kowalski 9 Export Patterns in Medical Products in the Times of the Covid-19 Pandemic: Focus on Pharmaceuticals  Marzenna Anna Weresa 10 Pharmaceutical Companies as Portfolio Investments  Izabela Pruchnicka-Grabias Conclusions  Marzenna Anna Weresa, Christina Ciecierski and Lidia Filus Index

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Book SynopsisDecentering Comparative Analysis in a Globalizing World aims to go beyond the traditional criticism in comparative analysis. It wants to shed new light on the question of comparing as a form of categorizing. In this perspective, three relevant dimensions to question the naturalized categories of comparison are mobilized: ethnocentrism, the nation, and academic disciplines. Based on original empirical work, the volume proposes to use comparative categories by mixing and shifting the analytical perspectives. It brings together contributions that come to terms with the historicity of the comparative method in the social sciences. It eventually deals with the key issue of comparability of various cases, in the enlarged context of a globalizing world. Contributors are: Anna Amelina, Camille Boullier, Catherine Cavalin, Serge Ebersold, Andreas Eckert, Mouhamedoune Abdoulaye Fall, Isabel Georges, Olivier Giraud, Aïssa Kadri, Wiebke Keim, Michel Lallement, Marie Mercat-Bruns, Luis Felipe Murillo, Kiran Klaus Patel, Léa Renard, Ferruccio Ricciardi, Paul-André Rosental, Pablo Salazar-Jaramillo, Stéphanie Tawa-Lama, Nikola Tietze, Tania Toffanin, Michel Vincent and Bénédicte Zimmermann.Table of Contents1. Introduction: Decentering comparative analysis and beyond Olivier Giraud, Lise CNRS-Cnam, Paris Michel Lallement, Lise CNRS-Cnam, Paris Part 1. Varying the analytical scale 2. Decentering comparison, questioning holism: The multi-sited ethnographic approach Luis Felipe Murillo, University of Virginia - Charlottesville 3. Close comparison in a global world: Categorizing the quality of work in a multinational company Bénédicte Zimmermann, EHESS, Paris, Wissenschaftskolleg Berlin Léa Renard, Freie Universität Berlin 4. Decentering comparative strategies in cross-border studies: Towards a comparative analysis of scale making within assemblages Anna Amelina, Universität Cottbus 5. Engaging in a dialogue - An experiment in comparative employment Law Marie Mercat-Bruns, Lise CNRS-Cnam, Paris 6. Which decentered methodological framework is best for comparing inclusive education policies? Serge Ebersold, Lise CNRS-Cnam, Paris 7. Spectral comparisons: universalization, generalization, and the resource curse Pablo Jaramillo, Universidad de los Andes – Bogota Part 2. Comparison: A historical phenomena and the social sciences 8. The rise of comparison and the rise of the New Deal order Kiran Klaus Patel, Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich 9. Silicosis as a test case for the decentering of medical and labor history Paul-André Rosental, Science Po, CFR- EHESS, Paris Catherine Cavalin, Irisso-CNRS-Université Paris Dauphine Michel Vincent, Minapath Développement 10. Homo Africanus vs homo œconomicus: looking back and forth Mohamedoune Abdoulaye Fall, LASP-D, Saint-Louis du Sénégal 11. The rise and strength of authoritarian restoration – Constructing a comparative logic for research Wiebke Keim, Sage-CNRS, Strasbourg 12. Comparing the Social and Spatial Inscription of Women’s Work Tania Toffanin, Università degli Studi, Padova 13. Categoring difference: labor and the colonial experience Ferruccio Ricciardi, Lise CNRS-Cnam, Paris Part 3. Building commensurable universes for comparative analysis: Opportunities and constraints 14. Comparative Research Between France and India: A View from Within Stéphanie Tawa-Lama Rewal, EHESS, Paris 15. Comparability and conditions of comparability in education. Globalization of education: economist ethnocentrism versus culturalist singularism Aïssa Kadri, Université Paris 8 16. Comparing imagined transnational communities in France and Germany, or Playing national and European categories – religion, language, territory – at their own game Nikola Tietze, Hamburger Institut für Sozialforschung, Hamburg 17. Communities, organization of work, and institutional mediation: comparing the United States and France Camille Boullier, Lise CNRS-Cnam, Paris Michel Lallement, Lise CNRS-Cnam, Paris 18. On the crossroads of territorialities and temporalities: the making of social politics in Brazil Isabel Georges, IRD-UMR 201 Développement et societies, Paris 19. Entangled politicizations. Democracy against the market in long-term care policies Olivier Giraud, Lise, CNRS-Cnam, Paris Concluding remarks Andreas Eckert, Humbold University Berlin

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