This book explores how, why, and when hermeneutic phenomenology can be used as methodology in health and social research.

1.Introduction - Situating hermeneutic phenomenology as research method in health, social care and education. 2.Nurturing a spirit of attuning-to. 3.Using poetry to illuminate the lived accounts of Juvenile Dermatomyositis in children and young people. 4.Revealing experiences of sexuality and intimacy in life-limiting illness using Heidegger's phenomenology. 5.'Distracted by, and immersed in the talk of others': expectations and experiences of childbirth in the framework of the 'they'. 6.Seeking Heidegger in research data: thinking about connections between philosophy and findings. 7.Embodied hermeneutic phenomenology: Bringing the lived body into health professions education research. 8.Dwelling in the fourfold: my way of being-in-the-world of Heidegger. 9.Working with phenomenon: just keep swimming. 10.Being an educator as 'having-been'. 11.Straddling paradigms: a hermeneutic phenomenological exploration of the experience of midwives practising homeopathy. 12.Inseeing to the heart of the matter. 13.Attuning to trustworthiness and final reflections