Qualitative review procedures have developed significantly over the past 30 years; meta-ethnography being one. Meta-ethnography was originally located within an interpretivist world view and aimed at reviewing small numbers of qualitative studies, often involving sample sizes. One defining features is that theory generating. Whilst healthcare literature, where particular processes are evident i...

This article uses collaborative auto/ethnography to explore the circulation and potentiality of affect in live performances archive Pretty Porky Pissed Off (PPPOd), a Toronto-based queer fat activist performance art collective active during late 1990s mid-2000s. Drawing on video audio recordings five PPPOd alongside other ephemera series conversations relating these archival objects among artic...

BACKGROUND Ethnographic research methods have a considerable history of use in medical settings. This paper provides a personal account of conducting ethnography in medical environments and focuses on some of the practical and ethical issues encountered in such settings. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION The paper describes particular issues that arise when undertaking ethnographic work, such as gain...