Many years ago I read a book chapter that would have a profound effect on how I thought about my practice as a health professional, and dramatically shape the future direction for my research and the way I thought about the world generally.  That chapter was titled Interviewing women: A contradiction in terms and it was written by Anne Oakley.  Oakley has just published a follow up paper titled Interviewing Women Again: Power, Time and the Gift, and reading it reminded me why it had such a profound impact on me 20 years ago. In the early 1990s I was working at The Children's Hospital in Birmingham (UK) and studying a masters degree in research methodology.  The degree was life-changing. … [Read more...] about Interviewing women: A contradiction in terms