The Mead/Freeman controversy - some implications for qualitative researchers, Alan Bryman; being a researcher, Alan Brown; from being a native to becoming a researcher - Meg Stacey and the General Medical Council, Meg Stacey; the dynamics of gender in ethnographic research - a personal view, Janet Foster; the "person" in the researcher, Pamela Cotterill and Gayle Letherby; researching major life events, Janet Harvey; male sociologist in a woman's world - aspects of a medical partnership, Joel Richman; coming to understand ethnographic inquiry - learning, changing and knowing, David E. Coe; oral history - neither fish nor fowl, David Lawrenson; the unfolding matrix - a technique for qualitative data acquisition and analysis, Raymond V. Padilla.