Natashe Lemos Dekker
Biographic Data
| ID | 169752 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Natashe Lemos Dekker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Natashe Lemos |
| FAMILY NAME | Dekker |
| SIGNATURE | DEKKER N L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Leiden University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5523-4523 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 29 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Interrogating Speculative Futures
We introduce the empirical papers in this special issue, each of which presents a different mode of speculation in the context of living with, and caring for, chronic conditions: "educated guesswork" about covid reinfection, "ambivalent speculations" in learning to live "at risk" with Barrett's Esophagus and "retrospective speculation" in pressure ulcer prevention. We reflect on how they together contribute to current thinking on the politics of …
Ethical dilemmas in ethnographic research on end‐of‐life care
Ethnographic research on end‐of‐life care raises ethical dilemmas that merit explicit discussion. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Brazil, India and Indonesia as part of a comparative research project, this article examines a recurring ethical problem: the sensitivity of sharing or withholding diagnostic and prognostic knowledge when death is near. Such dilemmas overlap with those faced more broadly in medical anthropology, but the stakes are he…
Sociocultural Dimensions of Community‐Based Palliative Care in Brazil and Indonesia
Background Palliative care services are increasingly implemented in diverse sociocultural settings around the world. Aim Our ethnographic project aimed to explore the sociocultural and organizational dimensions of community‐based palliative care in Brazil and Indonesia. Methods We used ethnographic research methods to study local models of palliative care provision in Brazil and Indonesia. These countries were chosen because of similarities in st…
Anticipatory Grief in Dementia
In this article, I address the experiences of family members of people with dementia, as they expressed the sensation of gradually losing the person with dementia. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in nursing homes in the Netherlands, and contributing to the anthropology of grief, I explore the co-existence of experiences of anticipatory grief and manifestations of care to maintain meaningful relations. I show how my interlocutors adapted to changi…
Palliative Care
Palliative care has been developing since the 1960s as a form of caregiving that focuses on the relief of suffering when there is no prospect of a cure or when a patient is at the end of life. Originating in the UK and US, palliative care has been taken up by global institutions such as the World Health Organization (WHO), and implemented in various cultural and socioeconomic settings. Anthropological studies have long been highlighting the wide …
Shaping hope in everyday life
While spouses of military veterans have not been directly exposed to threats during deployment, they often experience a substantial post-deployment-related health burden while living with and caring for a partner with deployment-related mental health issues. Drawing from in-depth interviews, this study examined how female spouses of military veterans deal with the psychosocial effects of deployment. We show how these women cope. They keep their f…
Standardising care of the dying
The Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient (LCP) was a prominent set of guidance in the late 2000s and early 2010s within palliative and end-of-life care. Developed in England to improve the care of dying patients, it was later adopted in 20 counties. After a public scandal, it was removed from practice in England but remains in other locations, including the Netherlands. Drawing on two sets of ethnographic data, from England and the Nether…
Anticipating an unwanted future
This ethnographic exploration of anticipation draws on fieldwork among people with dementia and their families in the Netherlands. I examine how requests for euthanasia by people with dementia offer insight into the work of anticipation, revealing it to be a temporal orientation through which the future is made tangible. Imagining a future with dementia may prompt some people to request euthanasia, but timing such measures is extremely difficult …
Fallacies of care – A short introduction
Competing goods and fallacies of care
Moral frames for lives worth living
Narratives that frame the end of life with dementia as undignified reveal moral claims on which lives are considered worth living. These claims are deeply rooted in the medicalization of death and its appeal to dignity. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork in nursing homes for people with dementia in The Netherlands, I demonstrate how the end of life with dementia is managed through such moral frames. Specifically, I elaborate on the production of…
Anticipating an unwanted future
This ethnographic exploration of anticipation draws on fieldwork among people with dementia and their families in the Netherlands. I examine how requests for euthanasia by people with dementia offer insight into the work of anticipation, revealing it to be a temporal orientation through which the future is made tangible. Imagining a future with dementia may prompt some people to request euthanasia, but timing such measures is extremely difficult …
Moral frames for lives worth living
Narratives that frame the end of life with dementia as undignified reveal moral claims on which lives are considered worth living. These claims are deeply rooted in the medicalization of death and its appeal to dignity. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork in nursing homes for people with dementia in The Netherlands, I demonstrate how the end of life with dementia is managed through such moral frames. Specifically, I elaborate on the production of…
Competing goods and fallacies of care
Shaping hope in everyday life
While spouses of military veterans have not been directly exposed to threats during deployment, they often experience a substantial post-deployment-related health burden while living with and caring for a partner with deployment-related mental health issues. Drawing from in-depth interviews, this study examined how female spouses of military veterans deal with the psychosocial effects of deployment. We show how these women cope. They keep their f…
Standardising care of the dying
The Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient (LCP) was a prominent set of guidance in the late 2000s and early 2010s within palliative and end-of-life care. Developed in England to improve the care of dying patients, it was later adopted in 20 counties. After a public scandal, it was removed from practice in England but remains in other locations, including the Netherlands. Drawing on two sets of ethnographic data, from England and the Nether…
Moral frames for lives worth living
Narratives that frame the end of life with dementia as undignified reveal moral claims on which lives are considered worth living. These claims are deeply rooted in the medicalization of death and its appeal to dignity. Drawing from ethnographic fieldwork in nursing homes for people with dementia in The Netherlands, I demonstrate how the end of life with dementia is managed through such moral frames. Specifically, I elaborate on the production of…
Fallacies of care – A short introduction
Competing goods and fallacies of care
Anticipating an unwanted future
This ethnographic exploration of anticipation draws on fieldwork among people with dementia and their families in the Netherlands. I examine how requests for euthanasia by people with dementia offer insight into the work of anticipation, revealing it to be a temporal orientation through which the future is made tangible. Imagining a future with dementia may prompt some people to request euthanasia, but timing such measures is extremely difficult …
Standardising care of the dying
The Liverpool Care Pathway for the Dying Patient (LCP) was a prominent set of guidance in the late 2000s and early 2010s within palliative and end-of-life care. Developed in England to improve the care of dying patients, it was later adopted in 20 counties. After a public scandal, it was removed from practice in England but remains in other locations, including the Netherlands. Drawing on two sets of ethnographic data, from England and the Nether…
Anticipatory Grief in Dementia
In this article, I address the experiences of family members of people with dementia, as they expressed the sensation of gradually losing the person with dementia. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in nursing homes in the Netherlands, and contributing to the anthropology of grief, I explore the co-existence of experiences of anticipatory grief and manifestations of care to maintain meaningful relations. I show how my interlocutors adapted to changi…
Palliative Care
Palliative care has been developing since the 1960s as a form of caregiving that focuses on the relief of suffering when there is no prospect of a cure or when a patient is at the end of life. Originating in the UK and US, palliative care has been taken up by global institutions such as the World Health Organization (WHO), and implemented in various cultural and socioeconomic settings. Anthropological studies have long been highlighting the wide …
Shaping hope in everyday life
While spouses of military veterans have not been directly exposed to threats during deployment, they often experience a substantial post-deployment-related health burden while living with and caring for a partner with deployment-related mental health issues. Drawing from in-depth interviews, this study examined how female spouses of military veterans deal with the psychosocial effects of deployment. We show how these women cope. They keep their f…
Sociocultural Dimensions of Community‐Based Palliative Care in Brazil and Indonesia
Background Palliative care services are increasingly implemented in diverse sociocultural settings around the world. Aim Our ethnographic project aimed to explore the sociocultural and organizational dimensions of community‐based palliative care in Brazil and Indonesia. Methods We used ethnographic research methods to study local models of palliative care provision in Brazil and Indonesia. These countries were chosen because of similarities in st…
Interrogating Speculative Futures
We introduce the empirical papers in this special issue, each of which presents a different mode of speculation in the context of living with, and caring for, chronic conditions: "educated guesswork" about covid reinfection, "ambivalent speculations" in learning to live "at risk" with Barrett's Esophagus and "retrospective speculation" in pressure ulcer prevention. We reflect on how they together contribute to current thinking on the politics of …
Ethical dilemmas in ethnographic research on end‐of‐life care
Ethnographic research on end‐of‐life care raises ethical dilemmas that merit explicit discussion. Drawing on fieldwork conducted in Brazil, India and Indonesia as part of a comparative research project, this article examines a recurring ethical problem: the sensitivity of sharing or withholding diagnostic and prognostic knowledge when death is near. Such dilemmas overlap with those faced more broadly in medical anthropology, but the stakes are he…
Ethnography (7 works) · Sociology (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Grief, Bereavement, and Mental Health (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Nursing (4 works) · Palliative care (4 works)