The Shadow Side of Fieldwork: Exploring the Blurred Borders between Ethnography and LifeISBN: 978-1-4051-6981-3
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328 pages
August 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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Athena McLean is Professor of Anthropology at the Department
of Sociology, Anthropology and Social Work, Central Michigan
University. Dr. McLean’s research has focused on
processes of knowledge production and contestation in the areas of
aging and psychiatry. She has particular interests in dementia care
and advocacy movements in mental health and aging. Her writings
include 'Contradictions in the Social Production of Clinical
Knowledge: The Case of Schizophrenia', in Social Science and
Medicine (1990), and The Person in Dementia: A Study of
Nursing Home Care in the U.S. (2007).
Annette Leibing is an anthropologist with research interests in psychiatry, aging (especially Alzheimer), medications, and new medical technologies (such as stem cells). She has taught anthropology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, and been a visiting professor in Social Studies of Medicine, McGill University (2002–05). She is Associate Professor of Medical Anthropology at the University of Montreal. Her latest book, co-edited with Lawrence Cohen, is Thinking about Dementia: Culture, Loss, and the Anthropology of Senility (2006).