Forms of Care

An Ethnography of "Active non-interventions" in Palliative Care

Between May 2018 and January 2021 I worked as a Research Fellow at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. With professor Simon Cohn and Erica Borgstrom, I conducted the ESRC funded stuyd 'Forms of Care' (grant number ES/P002781/1).

Find more information about the project on the Forms of Care website.

The project outputs are listed below.

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Academic publications

Dumble, K., Driessen, A., Borgstrom, E, Jonathan, M., Yardley, S. and S. Cohn (2022) “How much information is ‘reasonable’? A qualitative interview study of the prescribing practices of palliative care professionals.” Palliative Medicine. Online first.

Driessen, A., Borgstrom, E., Cohn, S. (2021) “Placing death and dying: Making place at the end of life.” Social Science & Medicine. Volume 291: 1-8

Borgstrom, E., Cohn, S., Driessen, A., Martin, J., and S. Yardley (2021) “Multidisciplinary team meetings in palliative care: an ethnographic study.” BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care. 0: 1–4.

Driessen, A., Borgstrom, E., Cohn, S. “Ways of ‘being with’: caring for dying patients at the height of the COVID pandemic.” (2021). Anthropology in Action. 28 (1): 16-20.

Borgstrom, E., Cohn, S. and Driessen, A. (2020). “We come in as ‘the nothing’: Researching non-intervention in palliative care”. Medicine Anthropology Theory, 7(2).

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