In bringing together this special edition we wish to contribute to a conversation concerning the meaning of 'evidence-based practice'. We are nurses and phenomenological researchers interested in lifeworld approaches and in the many ways of knowing that are relevant to everyday caring practice. In the context of the ever-increasing specialisation of knowledge, we wish to widen the embrace of current notions of evidence and point to ways of knowing that are inclusive of the 'head, hand and heart'. This wider embrace (...) of evidence does not excessively exclude kinds of knowledge that include the aesthetic, empathic, embodied and relational dimensions of understanding. (shrink)

Being, Seeking and Telling: Expressive Approaches to Qualitative Adult Education Research . Flaxton, Queensland: Post Pressed. ISBN 1 876682 07 8 Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology , Volume 1, Edition 1 April 2001.

Embodied Enquiry: Phenomenological Touchstones for Research, Psychotherapy and Spirituality . Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. Hardcover (224 pages) ISBN: 978 023051 7752 0 £45.00 Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology , Volume 7, Edition 2 September 2007.