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Go Unattended. A Review of Anthony Stavrianakis’ Book “Leaving. A Narrative of Assisted Suicide” (2019)
No full textThis is a review of Anthony Stavrianakis’ book Leaving. A Narrative of Assisted Suicide (University of California Press, 2019). Medically-assisted suicide still raises many issues and controversies of various types: ethical, legal, organizational and institutional. The situation varies greatly between countries, and depends on health care policies and socially recognised values. However, the overriding question is as follows: under what conditions should this form of death be allowed? Among the arguments that are well known, recognized and now tame, Stavrianakis’ research brings new light and perspective. The author goes deeper and searches for the real motives driving people to choose this manner of death. He sees the nuances and recounts the difficulties. In this article, I highlight aspects of Stavrianakis’ work that I find relevant and crucial for the issues considered
Leaving a narrative of assisted suicide
No full text"The first book-length anthropological study of voluntary assisted dying, Leaving is a narrative account of five case histories of people who ended their lives with assistance in Switzerland. Anthony Stavrianakis places his narrative within a larger story about how to approach and understand the practice of assisted suicide, one that is often integrated into moral positions that reflect sociological and psychological commonplaces about both suicide and euthanasia. Leaving argues that such commonplaces are wildly inappropriate and cannot encompass the larger experiences of those who seek this specific form through which to leave their experience of life and illness"-
Les enquêtes anthropologiques devant les comités d’éthique de la recherche
No full textInternational audienceIn diesem Gespräch mit Baptiste Moutaud und Anthony Stavrianakis, zwei im Gesundheitsbereich tätigen Anthropologen, befragen Jessica De Largy Healy und Monica Heintz ihre Gesprächspartner zu deren internationaler Erfahrung mit EthikkKommissionen, insbesondere in einem Kontext, in demaus dem angelsächsischen Umfeld stammende ethische Kodizes, Institutionen und Protokolle verstärkt in Europa und damit auch in der französischen anthropologischen Forschung Einzug halten. Baptiste Moutaud und Anthony Stavrianakis reflektieren gemeinsam über die Herausforderungen, Dilemmata und andere, ihrem Forschungsbereich von Patienten und medizinischem Personal eigene ethische Imperative und hinterfragen die methodologischen, wissenschaftlichen, deontologischen und rechtlichen Konturen der modernen anthropologischen Forschung ganz allgemein. In diesem Gespräch wird der Begriff der Wissensteilung zwischen Forscher und Gesprächspartnern von Bedingungen dominiert, die dem Feld der Gesundheits- und Medizinanthropologie zu eigen sind, während das Kriterium der Transparenz institutionelle Verfechter entlarvt, die möglicherweise im Widerspruch zu ihrer ursprünglichen Intention stehen.As ethical codes, institutions, and protocols originating in the Anglo-American tradition sweep across Europe and make their way into French anthropological research, Jessica De Largy Healy and Monica Heintz ask Baptiste Moutaud and Anthony Stavrianakis, two anthropologists working in the healthcare field, about their experiences with research ethics committees around the world. Reflecting on the challenges and dilemmas faced, as well as the other ethical imperatives specific to their field of study, in close contact with both patients and medical personnel, Moutaud and Stavrianakis revisit the methodological, scientific, deontological, and legal dimensions of contemporary anthropological research more broadly. In this interview, talk turns to how the notion of knowledge-sharing between researcher and research subject is colored by conditions specific to the field of anthropology of health and medicine, while that of transparency is governed by institutional frameworks that may have the opposite effect to that intended.En esta entrevista con Baptiste Moutaud y Anthony Stavrianakis, antropólogos de la salud, Jessica De Largy Healy y Monica Heintz discuten sobre su experiencia a nivel internacional con comités de ética en investigación, en un contexto donde los códigos, instituciones y protocolos éticos nacidos en el entorno anglosajón llegan en masa a Europa y a la investigación antropológica francesa. Al reflexionar colectivamente sobre los retos, dilemas planteados y otros imperativos éticos propios de su ámbito de estudio, donde están en contacto con pacientes y personal médico, Baptiste Moutaud y Anthony Stavrianakis replantean, en términos generales, los contornos metodológicos, científicos, deontológicos y legales de la investigación contemporánea en antropología. En esta entrevista, la noción del intercambio de conocimientos entre el investigador y sus interlocutores está matizada por las condiciones específicas del ámbito de la antropología de la salud y la medicina, mientras que aquella de transparencia revela implicaciones institucionales posiblemente contrarias a su intención original.Dans cet entretien avec Baptiste Moutaud et Anthony Stavrianakis, anthropologues travaillant dans le domaine de la santé, Jessica de Largy Healy et Monica Heintz questionnent leur expérience internationale des comités d’éthique de la recherche, dans un contexte où les codes, institutions et protocoles éthiques nés dans le milieu anglo-saxon arrivent massivement en Europe et aussi dans la recherche anthropologique française. En réfléchissant collectivement aux enjeux, dilemmes posés et autres impératifs éthiques propres à leur champ d’étude auprès de patients et de personnel médical, Baptiste Moutaud et Anthony Stavrianakis réinterrogent les contours méthodologiques, scientifiques, déontologiques et légaux de la recherche contemporaine en anthropologie plus généralement. Dans cet entretien la notion de partage de savoirs entre chercheur et interlocuteurs est colorée par les conditions propres au champ de l’anthropologie de la santé, alors que celle de transparence dévoile des tenants institutionnels potentiellement contraires à son intention d’origine
Crucible of the Incurable: Facing ALS
No full textInternational audienceCrucible of the Incurable concerns how people face life with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS). Anthony Stavrianakis spent a year in clinics and with people living with the illness in the United States. He examines the multiple meanings of care in a context of a chronic, degenerative, one-hundred percent fatal, neuromuscular illness, whose most common duration is between two and five years. How do people diagnosed with ALS continue to "live as well as possible, for as long as possible" in accordance with the normative work at the heart of outpatient ALS care? Crucible of the Incurable shows how those touched by the situation of a person living with ALS bear this problem and this task. Given the sense of certitude around the diagnosis, given past experiences of those aware of its usual progression, and given the uncertainty of the disease's cause and its progression for each specific person; how then do people orient themselves to the experience of life with this illness, how to support those who are confronted with it, and how to provide aid or solace
In the Workshop:Anthropology in a Collaborative Zone of Inquiry
No full textThe chapter by Anthony Stavrianakis, Paul Rabinow and Trine Korsby is an exercise in collaborative thinking and writing. The exercise begins with Max Weber’s judgement that ‘zones of inquiry’ are formed through the conceptual interconnection of ‘problems’. The authors take up this objective relative to a series of ‘objects of inquiry’: they narrate the manner in which a zone of inquiry, focused on problems, stemming from inquiry, might be forged collaboratively. The chapter is written in three broad movements: First, ‘objects of inquiry’ are narrated in an initial sequence of TEXTS; second, in a sequence of COMMENTARIES, the authors seek to draw out the conceptual operations and abstractions through which ‘problems’ could be shared; third, they test the abstracted problems relative to their objects of inquiry in a further sequence of TEXTS and COMMENTARIES. The chapter thus puts into motion an assemblage of heterogeneous objects, practices and concepts, and shows the narrative forms through which conceptual interconnections could be tested
Leaving: A narrative of assisted suicide
No full textInternational audienceThe first book length anthropological study of voluntary assisted dying in Switzerland, Leaving is a narrative account of five people who ended their lives with assistance. Stavrianakis places his observations of the judgment to end life in this way within a larger inquiry about how to approach and understand the practice of assisted suicide, which he characterizes as operating in a political, legal, and medical “parazone,” adjacent to medical care and expertise. Frequently, observers too rapidly integrate assisted suicide into moral positions that reflect sociological and psychological commonplaces about individual choice and its social determinants. Leaving engages with core early twentieth-century psychoanalytic and sociological texts arguing for a contemporary approach to the phenomenon of voluntary death, seeking to learn from such conceptual repertoires, as well as to acknowledge their limits. Leaving concludes on the anthropological question of how to account for the ethics of assistance with suicide: to grasp the actuality and composition of the ethical work that goes on in the configuration of a subject, one who is making a judgment about dying, with other participants and observers, the anthropologist included
Les objets composés
No full textL'hétérogénéité profonde des réalités dont les sciences sociales ont à se saisir crée du trouble, mais elle laisse surtout entrevoir de nouvelles lignes de recherche. Ce que nous pointons, ce n'est pas la variabilité qui émerge nécessairement d'une enquête empirique, et qu'un chercheur s'attache en partie à réduire. Ce ne sont pas non plus les interdépendances entre des formes de matérialité non sociales et les objets que les sciences sociales ont placés au cœur de leur investigation (cultures, groupes, institutions, interactions sociales, dispositions). Par hétérogénéité profonde nous entendons cette consistance particulière des objets qui, associant les unes aux autres des entités aux capacités modulables relevant de catégories différentes, parfois au-delà de dualités fortement établies (matière et langage, nature et culture, technique et politique), obligent les chercheurs à imaginer les notions et les méthodes propres à les appréhender. En somme, des objets « composés ». Pointer cette hétérogénéité et s'y affronter a été une préoccupation de Michel Foucault, Gilles Deleuze et Félix Guattari, puis de la théorie de l'acteur-réseau, de la sociologie des régimes d'engagement, et plus récemment de l'anthropologie des agencements globaux. Mais les fronts aujourd'hui se déplacent. Venant de différents horizons de l'anthropologie et de la sociologie, issus des mondes anglophones et francophones, des chercheurs éprouvent le besoin de re-conceptualiser les notions et de redéfinir les enquêtes qui leur sont associées. Trois directions s'en dégagent, autour de trois concepts clefs - agencements, dispositifs, assemblages –, qui forgent un regard inédit sur les lieux où règnent les objets composés : des expériences de la vulnérabilité aux lieux d'énonciation du droit, des laboratoires scientifiques à l'expression des impératifs religieux, des milieux urbains, industriels et agricoles à l'exercice du pouvoir politique. Ainsi émerge un espace de recherches, dont ce numéro met en évidence les choix, les éclairages et les manières de faire
Interview with Anthony F. Janson
No full textAnthony F. Janson is a retired professor and former Department Chair for the UNCW Department of Art and Theatre [retired December 2002]. This interview covers his complete life and career. He discusses his relationship with his art historian father, H.W. Janson, including his relationship as son and co-author and editor of the Janson texts on art history. The interview covers Tony's career as a scholar, book editor, author, art museum curator [at Indianapolis Art Museum and North Carolina Art Museum], and as a professor. Throughout, he comments on important artists in history and his philosophy of art history. He also includes stories of his time in the Vietnam War
Interview with Anthony F. Janson
No full textAnthony F. Janson is a retired professor and former Department Chair for the UNCW Department of Art and Theatre [retired December 2002]. This interview covers his complete life and career. He discusses his relationship with his art historian father, H.W. Janson, including his relationship as son and co-author and editor of the Janson texts on art history. The interview covers Tony's career as a scholar, book editor, author, art museum curator [at Indianapolis Art Museum and North Carolina Art Museum], and as a professor. Throughout, he comments on important artists in history and his philosophy of art history. He also includes stories of his time in the Vietnam War
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