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This chapter presents part of an ongoing dialogue between a qualitative health researcher working in Health Services Research (FR) and a poet and facilitator of creative writing working in the fields of health and social care (GH). It highlights the rich diversity of perspectives that can be disclosed when two people from differing backgrounds come together to consider the legitimacy of poetic inquiry as an academic paradigm.
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Rapport, F., Hartill, G. (2016). Making the Case for Poetic Inquiry in Health Services Research. In: Galvin, K.T., Prendergast, M. (eds) Poetic Inquiry II – Seeing, Caring, Understanding. SensePublishers, Rotterdam. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6300-316-2_16
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