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Rapid ethnographies are used in a wide range of fields to speed up research quickly and effectively. This book is the first practical guide to rapid ethnographies, helping readers to improve skills in the design, implementation, dissemination and use of findings generated through rapid ethnographic research. It gives advice and guidelines for carrying out rapid and rigorous research and provides details of tools used in the field. Vignettes reflecting on the author's research are included throughout, including observations on research carried out during the COVID-19 pandemic, to highlight how challenges of conducting rapid ethnographies can be overcome. Case studies across a range of subjects are also included, to demonstrate how rapid ethnographies can be applied in practice. With its useful tools and easy-to-read format, it will be used by teachers and students, as well as researchers wanting to successfully implement rapid ethnographies in their own work.

Key debates in the field of rapid ethnographies -- A brief history of the work prior to rapid ethnographies -- Rapid ethnographies as a lone researcher -- Team-based rapid ethnographies -- Ethics, practical considerations and the emotional labour of ethnographic fieldwork -- Dissemination and the use of findings -- The future of rapid ethnographies.

Intro; Healthcare in Motion; Copyright Page; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Introduction; Part I. Healthcare and Differential Mobility Empowerments; Chapter 1. "Stuck in Motion"; Chapter 2. "It's Too Risky to Leave the House"; Chapter 3. (Im)mobile Populations and Health Rights; Part II. The Effect of Imagination on Mobility as a Resource in the Search for Care and Caring; Chapter 4. Fluid and Mobile Identities; Chapter 5. Egg Donor Social Mobility and Expansion of Czech Reproductive Medicine; Chapter 6. Governing Mobility of Health Workers across Borders

Argentina's universal model of healthcare and open immigration policies make it a popular destination for people from neighbouring countries requiring free medical treatments. These medical tourists come from Bolivia, Peru, and Paraguay. They are often from low-income households and rural areas, and travel to Argentina seeking medical attention in public hospitals because they are unable to pay for services in their own countries. In addition to these patients, current governmental-private sector agreements are being put in place to attract patients from the US and Europe. This new initiative – called Medicina Argentina (Argentina Healthcare) – hopes to raise the number of foreign patients from 6000 per year to 100,000. In theory, this change in government policy seeks to: provide services to patients who might not be able to access them in their own countries (due to high cost, unavailability, or long waiting lists), increase Argentine tourism income, and improve the quality of the medical services available for local populations. However, in practice, it will mean that an already overburdened healthcare system will have to adapt to suit the needs of short-term, medical tourists. The flow of foreign patients will interact with local migrating patients to create a tiered system of medical tourism, posing ethical and legal challenges in the distribution of scarce resources and regulation of medical care. In this article, I explore the ethical and practical impact of this 'new' medical tourism industry on the care provided to the local population.

Most of the literature on paediatric oncology treatment has provided descriptions of children's everyday lives that are circumscribed to periods of hospitalisation. In this paper, I argue that the political and economic context where children receive oncology treatment as well as the particular trajectories of their families influence their experiences. The narratives from children receiving treatment in three public hospitals in Buenos Aires, Argentina, were collected. Their stories indicate that issues such as the interruption of school, the separation of family members, the expenses incurred during treatment, and barriers to care influence the everyday lives of children and should be included in paediatric oncology research. © 2011 The Author(s). Children & Society © 2011 National Children's Bureau and Blackwell Publishing Limited

Chapter 1: Caring on the frontline: An introduction -- Chapter 2: Reflecting and learning from the experiences of COVID-19 researchers on gaining ethics approval during the pandemic -- Chapter 3: Policies and politics: An analysis of the public policies aimed at the reorganisation of healthcare delivery during the COVID-19 pandemic -- Chapter 4: Protecting and feeling protected: HCWs experiences with personal protective equipment during the COVID-19 outbreak (PPE) -- Chapter 5: "Thrown into the unknown": Uncertainty and the experiences of HCW during the pandemic in Chile, Brazil and Argentina -- Chapter 6: "People are not taking the outbreak seriously": Interpretations of religion and public health policy during the COVID-19 pandemic -- Chapter 7: Healthcare workers' mental health and well-being during the COVID-19 pandemic -- Chapter 8: "We are not all the same": Inequalities between HCWs' experiences of care and how these are shaped by ethnicity -- Chapter 9: Long-term care staff perceptions of providing care during the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States and Switzerland: Balancing protection and social isolation -- Chapter 10: Uncanny Valley: Healthcare workers in settings of controlled response -- Chapter 11: Testing times: COVID-19 testing and health care workers in South Africa -- Chapter 12: Even death has changed: end-of-life, burials, and bereavement during the COVID-19 pandemic -- Chapter 13: The "Knock-on" Effects of COVID-19 on Healthcare Services -- Chapter 14: Lessons for current and future pandemics.

Research on the impact of caring for patients with an acoustic neuroma is scarce. Findings from 12 interviews with primary carers of this patient population highlight six key themes: life disruption, support, well-being, the carer role, lessons learned and the impact of COVID-19. Carers need more practical information and emotional support, starting from the diagnosis stage through to recovery. Recommendations include routine carer assessments, early signposting to auxiliary services and information materials about recovery. This study contributes to the UK literature gap of this under-studied population and demonstrates the importance of carer assessments, as set out in the Carers Act 2014.

The coronavirus (COVID-19) arrived in the United Kingdom (UK) in February 2020, placing an unprecedented burden on the National Health Service (NHS). Literature from past epidemics and the COVID-19 pandemic underscores the importance of using a gender lens when considering policy, experiences, and impacts of the disease. Researchers are increasingly examining the experiences of healthcare workers (HCWs), yet there is a dearth of research considering how gender shapes HCWs' personal experiences. As the majority of HCWs in the UK and worldwide are women, research that investigates gender and focuses on women's experiences is urgently needed. We conducted an analysis of 41 qualitative interviews with HCWs in the British NHS during the first peak of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Spring of 2020. Our findings demonstrate that gender is significant when understanding the experiences of HCWs during COVID-19 as it illuminates ingrained inequalities and asymmetrical power relations, gendered organizational structures and norms, and individual gendered bodies that interact to shape experiences of healthcare workers. These findings point to important steps to improve gender equality, the wellbeing of healthcare workers, and the overall strength of the NHS.

ch. 1. Introduction -- ch. 2. Global health and behavior change interventions -- ch. 3. A global health model : the community-participatory involvement approach -- ch. 4. The disease : the cholera epidemic in Ecuador -- ch. 5. Case study : the CPI model in Ecuador : the cholera project -- ch. 6. Outcomes and discussions -- ch. 7. Lessons learned.

The fluid and changing nature of "family" the wide diversity of family arrangements, and families' movement across space (e.g., migration) and time (e.g., life‐course) demand constant reconfiguration of services. As the articles presented in this special issue demonstrate, the skills of anthropologists have resulted in reflection upon, and often restructuring of, family services. Anthropology is also involved in the design, implementation, and evaluation of programs within agencies tasked with providing these services. The authors featured in this special issue outline the contributions and limitations of anthropological practice, the ways in which anthropologists grapple with applied work, and future areas the discipline is well suited to address. The authors provide vivid examples of the application of anthropological perspectives and ethnographic methods for a wide range of purposes (from program design to evaluation), in a myriad of contexts (within health clinics, schools, public service agencies, community centers, homes, and nongovernmental organizations), and with a variety of outcomes (by informing policy, facilitating changes in practice, and improving the quality of life of participants). We hope this collection of articles inspires a critical examination of the concepts and discourses guiding the design of policies and the development of strategies for bringing together multiple stakeholders to make policies and services aimed at children and families multidimensional, inclusive, and evidence based.

Chapter 1: Immobility and Medicine: An Introduction -- Part 1 Immobile Infrastructures and Enforced Waiting -- Chapter 2: Lists in Flux, Lives on Hold? Technologies of Waiting in Liver Transplant Medicine -- Chapter 3: 'Being stuck': Refugees' Experiences of Enforced Waiting in Greece -- Chapter 4: 'An (Im)patient Population': Waiting Experiences of Transgender Patients Accessing Healthcare Services in Buenos Aires -- Chapter 5: Living in "Limbo": Immobility and Uncertainty in Childhood Cancer Medical Care in Argentina -- Part 2 Embodied Stillness and Fixity -- Chapter 6: Embodying Immobility: Dysphoric Geographies of Labour Migration and Their Transformations in the Therapeutic Context of ´Venda´ Ancestor Possession in Post-Apartheid South Africa -- Chapter 7: Liminality and the SCI Body: How Medicine Reproduces Stuckedness -- Chapter 8: Embodied Perceptions of Immobility after Stroke -- Chapter 9: "When You Do Nothing You Die a Little Bit": On Stillness and Honing Responsive Existence among Community-Dwelling People with Dementia -- Chapter 10: Stories of (Im)mobility: People Affected by Dementia on an Acute Medical Unit -- Part 3 Motility and (Im)mobile Possibilities -- Chapter 11: Migratory Labour and the Politics of Prevention: Motility and HPV Vaccination among Florida Farmworkers -- Chapter 12: Living Suspended: Anticipation and Resistance in Brain Cancer.