Within a Chinese historical context, medicine (yi 醫) was one of several qualitative sciences.
We find these primarily in the qualitative sciences of astronomy and astrology and medicine.
The greatest degree of engagement between philosophy and science comes from the qualitative sciences of astronomy (or astrology) and medicine.
In doing so, BMI practitioners adopt and adapt a number of methods drawn from the computational, quantitative, and qualitative sciences.
Sivin describes the qualitative sciences as: astronomy or astrology (tian wen 天文), medicine (yi 醫) and siting (feng shui 風水).
In conclusion, this brief account addresses important issues in the complex relations between philosophy and the early history of science in China, especially as they informed the qualitative sciences of medicine and astronomy, and their relations with early Chinese philosophy overall.
CMD combines qualitative social science fieldwork, with problem-oriented methods, technique and process improvement.
In this context, narrative research is often seen as a qualitative social science method used to frame adaptation communication.
As a result feminist bioethics has often drawn on the methods of qualitative social science and health research, to capture important empirical information about the situated encounter with medicine and healthcare.
Snow-ball sampling - one of the most commonly used sampling techniques in inter-disciplinary qualitative social science research - is a repetitive process whereby one key informant refers the researcher to the other, and so on.
The Means, Meanings, and Contexts (MMC) Framework is presented as an alternative methodology, one that allows for the integration of qualitative social science into the understanding of community vulnerability, drawing upon ethnographic research techniques and theories of place-making.
