"Aimed as a practical guide for health services researchers, this book goes beyond providing a ‘how to’ text to address the context and value of anthropologically informed qualitative health services research. It is aimed not only at other medical anthropologists working in healthcare research, such as the author herself, but also those engaged in health services research from other disciplines and backgrounds. The book achieves this by giving equal attention to the contexts of both health services research and anthropologically informed qualitative methods, inviting the reader to reflect on their own areas of familiarity as well as reflecting on the professional domains of others. Sobo makes extensive use of case studies and examples from her own experi- ence, setting out issues using illustrative anecdotes in a way that makes the subject matter accessible to readers less familiar with the field. This style of a sequentially written narrative may not suit readers who are seeking a more compartmentalized research methods text which can be ‘dipped into’. The broad scope of the book and the interweaving of key concepts, personal experience and case studies, makes the whole book journey worthwhile and rewarding to orientate the reader to the subject matter." - Kathryn Roulston, Qualitative Research.