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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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Conference presentations

Driessen, A, Borgstrom, E. and S. Cohn. “Folding time: making futures at the end of life”. British Sociological Association, Annual Conference 2021, 13-15 April 2021

 

Driessen, A., Borgstrom, E. and S. Cohn. “Dying at home: Making vital places at the end of life.” Chronic Living Conference (virtual conference), 4-6 March 2021

 

S. Cohn, Driessen, A. and Borgstrom, E. “Non-interventions as a form of care: thinking about the end of life”. Chronic Living Conference (virtual conference), 4-6 March 2021

 

Driessen, A., Borgstrom, E. and S. Cohn. “End-of-life care in England during the Covid-19 pandemic,” Death and Culture III (virtual conference), 3-4 September 2020

Driessen, A. and Cohn, S. “Rethinking ‘doing everything’ at the end of life: an ethnography of “noninterventions” in palliative care”. 4S/EASST, virtual conference, 18-21 August 2020

16-17 May 2020. Poster presentation: “Multidisciplinary Team Meetings as care in practice: An ethnography of hospital and community palliative care in the UK.”  E. Borgstrom, S. Cohn, A. Driessen, K. Dumble, J. Martin & S. Yardley. European Association for Palliative Care (EAPC), Palermo, 14-16 May 2020. (Postponed due to COVID-19).

18-19 March 2020. Poster presentation: “Placing death and dying: The work of making place at the end of life.” A. Driessen, E.Borgstrom & S. Cohn. Palliative Care Congress (PCC), Telford. (Cancelled due to COVID-19).

5 December 2019. “Placing death and dying: On the work of relationships in making place at the end of life.” A. Driessen, S. Cohn and E. Borgstrom. BSA Death, Dying and Bereavement, Sheffield 

 

11-13 September 2019. “To lead, to follow, to let happen: An ethnography of (non)-intervention at the end of life.” A. Driessen, S. Cohn and E. Borgstrom. BSA Medical Sociology annual conference, York 

 

1 June 2019. “Control over, and control with – An exploration of examples of tinkering towards control in end of life care.” A. Driessen, S. Cohn and E. Borgstrom. Workshop ‘Caring Control_Controlling Care’. Anthropology department, University of Amsterdam. 

16 May 2019. “Leading and following: rethinking agency through an ethnography of palliative care teams in the UK.” A. Driessen, S. Cohn and E. Borgstrom. Seminar Series of P6 research collective: Body, Knowledge, Subjectivity. Department of Technology and Social Change (TEMA-T), Linköping University.

24-27 July 2018. “Crafting attachments and detachments in palliative care”. A. Driessen, S. Cohn and E. Borgstrom. In: panel “Crafting attachments, making worlds”. Co-convened with E. Vogel and J.Laurent. EASST, Lancaster. Convenors: E. Vogel, J, Laurent and A. Driessen. EASST, Lancaster. 

1-2 October 2018 “Intervening & Influencing”. A. Driessen, S. Cohn and E. Borgstrom. Re-politicising Public Health: A workshop for early career ethnographers. Kings College London & LSHTM, London. 

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Conference panels

3-4 September 2020. “Fields and fieldwork under pressure”. Co-convened with E. Roding, ‘Mobilising Methods In Medical Anthropology’ Conference, Royal Anthropological Institute/ London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London. (postponed due to COVID-19)

18-21 August 2020. “‘Not doing’ in times of crisis: Agency and the urgency of pause and restraint“. EASST – 4S, Prague. Convenors: A. Driessen and S. Cohn. (Virtual due to COVID-19)

September 2019. Special Event “Sociological Contributions to Palliative and End of Life Care” with MacArtney, J.; Krawczyk, M.; Driessen, A., S. Cohn, E. Borgstrom and Almack, K. BSA Medical Sociology annual conference, York.


24-27 July 2018. “Crafting attachments, making worlds”. Co-convened with E. Vogel and J.Laurent. EASST, Lancaster. Convenors: E. Vogel, J, Laurent and A. Driessen

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