In this episode, Ian details his journey through quantitative health science and how he originally became interested in statistical methods as applied to research on human health.

In this episode, Ian speaks with Dr. Anne Marie Rafferty, a nurse, scholar, educator and historian from the UK, about a 1996 book she published entitled "The Politics of Nursing Knowledge," which was largely predicated on her doctoral dissertation work in medical sociology and modern history. They discuss how the book has shaped her career, her thinking, and where some of the big problems are in need of tackling in the field, and traverse elements of the historical context that undergirds many of these contemporary nursing and health policy issues.

In this episode, Ian interviews a Living Legend in Nursing, Dr. Jacqueline Fawcett, PhD, RN, FAAN. Jacqueline is internationally recognized for her work in meta-theoretical underpinnings of nursing science and practice, and has been credited as revivifying a term from the 1970s, "Nursology", as being most appropriate for our discipline, to distinguish it as a discipline similar to biology or psychology or sociology. Ian was able to ask Jacqueline why she prefers the term and where it originated, how she envisions the linkages between theory and practice in nursing, and how and whether it is possible or necessary to develop a theory-driven nursing science. Enjoy!

http://nursology.net

In this episode, Ian details his methodology for reviewing intervention studies, particularly randomized controlled clinical trials (RCT) and other human subjects experiments in the biomedical or biobehavioral sciences. This is merely the method that has worked for him over the years, and provides the most bang for his buck. Others' mileage may vary of course. But these are the pieces at least to be on the lookout for, when reading intervention research in biomedicine.