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Family Practice Advance Access originally published online on January 17, 2005
Family Practice 2005 22(1):1; doi:10.1093/fampra/cmh619
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Can ‘anecdote’ ever be research?

Trisha Greenhalgha

a Professor of Primary Health Care, University College London

Correspondence to Trisha Greenhalgh, Room 403, Holborn Union Building, Highgate Hill, London N19 5LW; Email: p.greenhalgh@pcps.ucl.ac.uk

Greenhalgh T. Can ‘anecdote’ ever be research? Family Practice 2005; 22: 1.

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A story has three defining features: an account of the unfolding of events over time; emplotment (i.e. the rhetorical juxtaposing of these events to convey meaning, motive and causality); and trouble (a breach from something that was expected). Trouble is the raw material from which plot is woven. Heroes are made when individuals tackle their own troubles or step in (courageously, . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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