ABSTRACT
Morse (2010) asked: “How different is qualitative health research from qualitative research? Do we have a subdiscipline?” (p. 1459). Her answer was yes. Morse (2012) defined qualitative health research “as a research approach to exploring health and illness as they are perceived by the people themselves, rather than from the researcher’s perspective” (p. 21). Morse argued that the context, the participants in the research, and the nature of the research questions investigated in qualitative health research are distinct. She made the case (p. 1463) that researchers who conduct qualitative health research required special skills and qualifications as “insiders”:
• Health professionals are “street smart,” knowing the rules, regulations, and norms for working in a hospital or other health care contexts.
