School of Nursing and Allied Health, Liverpool John Moores University, Liverpool, UK.
Glasgow Caledonian University, Glasgow, UK.
Nurs Inq. 2019 Apr;26(2):e12283. doi: 10.1111/nin.12283. Epub 2019 Mar 8.
It is over 20 years since Michael Crotty's groundbreaking critique of phenomenological research in nursing. However, rather than entering into the acrimonious discussions that followed, we developed a research method that we believed translated Gadamer's philosophy into the world of empirical research. Fundamental to that work was our differentiation of hermeneutics from phenomenology. The aim of the present paper was to provide a critical analysis of the citations from publication in 2003 until the end of 2017. We identified 402 citations of which 362 were included. One hundred and sixty-three articles mentioned the article in passing, usually in a list of authors who had discussed hermeneutics. Sixteen citations misrepresented the method mainly claiming that we discussed a method for hermeneutic phenomenology (or phenomenological hermeneutics). Of the 117 citations that partially used the method, the main focus was the four steps of data analysis. Sixty studies used our method in totality although they derive from varying philosophical standpoints. Disappointingly, there has been little critique of our Gadamerian research method. For health disciplines to truly make progress in the academic stage, it is vital that we engage in with critique, some of which will come through open and honest reflexive engagement with our topics.
自迈克尔·克罗蒂（Michael Crotty）对护理现象学研究进行开创性批判以来已经过去了 20 多年。然而，我们并没有参与随之而来的激烈讨论，而是开发了一种研究方法，我们相信这种方法将伽达默尔（Gadamer）的哲学转化为经验研究的世界。这项工作的基础是我们将解释学与现象学区分开来。本文的目的是对 2003 年至 2017 年底出版的引文进行批判性分析。我们确定了 402 条引文，其中包括 362 条引文。有 163 篇文章只是顺便提到了这篇文章，通常是在讨论解释学的作者列表中。有 16 条引文错误地代表了这种方法，主要声称我们讨论了一种解释学现象学（或现象学解释学）的方法。在部分使用该方法的 117 条引文中，主要重点是数据分析的四个步骤。尽管它们源于不同的哲学立场，但有 60 项研究完全使用了我们的方法。令人失望的是，对我们的伽达默尔研究方法几乎没有批评。为了使健康学科在学术阶段真正取得进展，至关重要的是我们要进行批评，其中一些批评将通过对我们的主题进行公开和诚实的反思性参与来实现。
