Peter Van Eeuwijk
Biographic Data
| ID | 136018 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Van Eeuwijk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Eeuwijk |
| SIGNATURE | VAN EEUWIJK P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Basel |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7594-0166 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Vulnerability, Relocation and Resilience
Widowed women constitute a majority of India’s older female population. Increasing numbers seek shelter in institutional homes. This qualitative study examines the relocation of older widows into not-for-profit old age homes in India, focusing on their motivations for moving and on resilience practices they employ in the new environment. The research took place in Mangalore, Karnataka, involving in-depth interviews with 15 widows (aged 60 and abo…
It is difficult for us to treat their pain”. Health professionals’ perceptions of Somali pastoralists in the context of pain management
Pain is one of the most neglected areas of care in sub-Saharan Africa. Access to adequate pain management is important, especially in marginalised populations, such as pastoralists. Little is known about health professionals' perceptions of pain-related care for Somali pastoralists. This study seeks to understand health professionals' perceptions of Somali pastoralists in the context of pain management in Eastern Ethiopia. Within the scope of thi…
Waiting for “Good Care”. Biomedicine and the Elderly in North Sulawesi, Indonesia
Older persons in North Sulawesi (Indonesia) shared a long experience with biomedical health interventions during Soeharto’s New Order administration. These vertically and top-down structured development activities in health no longer fit current demographic, epidemiological, and social transformations in Indonesia. The rapidly aging communities, the sharp increase in non-communicable diseases, and aging impairments along with rapidly changing hou…
Use of herbal remedies in the management of sleeping sickness in four northern provinces of Angola
Medical Anthropology in, of, for and with Africa
Medical anthropologists offer an empirically rich and conceptually nuanced account of how and why people in Africa engage with diverse forces influencing their ways of experiencing illness and practicing medicine in an unequal world. Expanding the research focus from healers to patients and, since 2000, to biomedicine and global health, they have deepened our understanding of the intricate, though not immediately visible networks of connecting, d…
Precarity, Assemblages, and Indonesian Elder Care
The provision (or failure) of care reflects and produces vulnerability in old age. Reliable and appropriate care widely affects the imagination of "good care" of older Indonesians in North Sulawesi. Yet, their striving for better life goes with the growing chronification of conditions and processes with unpredictable endings. Three factors shape such uncertainty in elder care in North Sulawesi: (1) unsustainable, fragile care arrangements; (2) pr…
The roles of a Grandmother in African societies – please do not send them to old people’s homes
O ctober 1 is the International Day of Older Persons, a recognition that has been in place for over 20 years now, but I must say very few stop to commemorate this day -myself included
The Elderly Providing Care for the Elderly in Tanzania and Indonesia
The provision of care for the elderly by the elderly does not attract much attention in either Tanzania or Indonesia, as communities consider this care arrangement to be incompatible with normative values. Differences in care arrangements and practices are observable through ethnographic comparison; nevertheless, in both contexts most elderly caregivers develop considerable social agency in the context of problematic changes in health to their ag…
Medical anthropology in Switzerland
‘Medical Anthropology Switzerland’ (MAS) was founded in 1992 (www.medicalanthropology.ch) and is an active committee of the Swiss Ethnological Society. A few years earlier (1989), a small group of
Petersen, Helga, und Alexander Krikellis (Hrsg.)
Anthropos , Seite 616 - 617
The power of food
La préparation de nourriture et de boissons est considérée comme une activité vitale dans les soins pour personnes âgées souffrant d'une maladie chronique en Indonésie urbaine. Seuls de proches membres de la famille préparent et servent les repas aux patients âgés. La majorité de ceux-ci prennent part aux repas quotidiens conjointement avec la famille qui représentent pour eux des arènes d'interaction sociale et une source d'informations essentie…
Food Chains
Old-age vulnerability, ill-health and care support in urban areas of Indonesia
The epidemiological health transition in Indonesia has lead to a substantial ageing of its population and a rapid increase in the prevalence of chronic progressive illnesses in advanced age that, in most cases, require some sort of care. This shift from ‘cure’ to ‘care’ necessitates new paradigms in both health-care delivery and research on older people in less-developed countries. Care involves both attitudes and practice, and is a dynamic inter…
Urban elderly with chronic illness
Old-age research in developing countries is at its beginning in the social sciences and particularly in anthropology, which has focused on other vulnerable groups, but has not sufficiently addressed emerging health issues of elderly urban dwellers in developing countries. This study investigates the health status of aged people living in cities (i.e. the 'burden of disease'), and how urban elderly experience and give meaning to chronic illnesses …
Health anthropology and urban health research
We live in a rapidly urbanising world. According to the 2001 statistics of the United Nations,a the proportion of urban dwellers rose from 30% in 1950 to 47% in 2000 and will probably attain 60% in 2030. Almost 70% of these urban dwellers live in cities of developing regions. At the current rates of urbanisation, the number of city dwellers in the world will equal that of their rural counterparts by 2007. In the late 1980s, researchers became inc…
Old-age vulnerability, ill-health and care support in urban areas of Indonesia
The epidemiological health transition in Indonesia has lead to a substantial ageing of its population and a rapid increase in the prevalence of chronic progressive illnesses in advanced age that, in most cases, require some sort of care. This shift from ‘cure’ to ‘care’ necessitates new paradigms in both health-care delivery and research on older people in less-developed countries. Care involves both attitudes and practice, and is a dynamic inter…
Urban elderly with chronic illness
Old-age research in developing countries is at its beginning in the social sciences and particularly in anthropology, which has focused on other vulnerable groups, but has not sufficiently addressed emerging health issues of elderly urban dwellers in developing countries. This study investigates the health status of aged people living in cities (i.e. the 'burden of disease'), and how urban elderly experience and give meaning to chronic illnesses …
Health anthropology and urban health research
We live in a rapidly urbanising world. According to the 2001 statistics of the United Nations,a the proportion of urban dwellers rose from 30% in 1950 to 47% in 2000 and will probably attain 60% in 2030. Almost 70% of these urban dwellers live in cities of developing regions. At the current rates of urbanisation, the number of city dwellers in the world will equal that of their rural counterparts by 2007. In the late 1980s, researchers became inc…
The Elderly Providing Care for the Elderly in Tanzania and Indonesia
The provision of care for the elderly by the elderly does not attract much attention in either Tanzania or Indonesia, as communities consider this care arrangement to be incompatible with normative values. Differences in care arrangements and practices are observable through ethnographic comparison; nevertheless, in both contexts most elderly caregivers develop considerable social agency in the context of problematic changes in health to their ag…
Medical Anthropology in, of, for and with Africa
Medical anthropologists offer an empirically rich and conceptually nuanced account of how and why people in Africa engage with diverse forces influencing their ways of experiencing illness and practicing medicine in an unequal world. Expanding the research focus from healers to patients and, since 2000, to biomedicine and global health, they have deepened our understanding of the intricate, though not immediately visible networks of connecting, d…
Precarity, Assemblages, and Indonesian Elder Care
The provision (or failure) of care reflects and produces vulnerability in old age. Reliable and appropriate care widely affects the imagination of "good care" of older Indonesians in North Sulawesi. Yet, their striving for better life goes with the growing chronification of conditions and processes with unpredictable endings. Three factors shape such uncertainty in elder care in North Sulawesi: (1) unsustainable, fragile care arrangements; (2) pr…
Urban elderly with chronic illness
Old-age research in developing countries is at its beginning in the social sciences and particularly in anthropology, which has focused on other vulnerable groups, but has not sufficiently addressed emerging health issues of elderly urban dwellers in developing countries. This study investigates the health status of aged people living in cities (i.e. the 'burden of disease'), and how urban elderly experience and give meaning to chronic illnesses …
Health anthropology and urban health research
We live in a rapidly urbanising world. According to the 2001 statistics of the United Nations,a the proportion of urban dwellers rose from 30% in 1950 to 47% in 2000 and will probably attain 60% in 2030. Almost 70% of these urban dwellers live in cities of developing regions. At the current rates of urbanisation, the number of city dwellers in the world will equal that of their rural counterparts by 2007. In the late 1980s, researchers became inc…
Old-age vulnerability, ill-health and care support in urban areas of Indonesia
The epidemiological health transition in Indonesia has lead to a substantial ageing of its population and a rapid increase in the prevalence of chronic progressive illnesses in advanced age that, in most cases, require some sort of care. This shift from ‘cure’ to ‘care’ necessitates new paradigms in both health-care delivery and research on older people in less-developed countries. Care involves both attitudes and practice, and is a dynamic inter…
Petersen, Helga, und Alexander Krikellis (Hrsg.)
Anthropos , Seite 616 - 617
The power of food
La préparation de nourriture et de boissons est considérée comme une activité vitale dans les soins pour personnes âgées souffrant d'une maladie chronique en Indonésie urbaine. Seuls de proches membres de la famille préparent et servent les repas aux patients âgés. La majorité de ceux-ci prennent part aux repas quotidiens conjointement avec la famille qui représentent pour eux des arènes d'interaction sociale et une source d'informations essentie…
Food Chains
Medical anthropology in Switzerland
‘Medical Anthropology Switzerland’ (MAS) was founded in 1992 (www.medicalanthropology.ch) and is an active committee of the Swiss Ethnological Society. A few years earlier (1989), a small group of
The Elderly Providing Care for the Elderly in Tanzania and Indonesia
The provision of care for the elderly by the elderly does not attract much attention in either Tanzania or Indonesia, as communities consider this care arrangement to be incompatible with normative values. Differences in care arrangements and practices are observable through ethnographic comparison; nevertheless, in both contexts most elderly caregivers develop considerable social agency in the context of problematic changes in health to their ag…
The roles of a Grandmother in African societies – please do not send them to old people’s homes
O ctober 1 is the International Day of Older Persons, a recognition that has been in place for over 20 years now, but I must say very few stop to commemorate this day -myself included
Use of herbal remedies in the management of sleeping sickness in four northern provinces of Angola
Medical Anthropology in, of, for and with Africa
Medical anthropologists offer an empirically rich and conceptually nuanced account of how and why people in Africa engage with diverse forces influencing their ways of experiencing illness and practicing medicine in an unequal world. Expanding the research focus from healers to patients and, since 2000, to biomedicine and global health, they have deepened our understanding of the intricate, though not immediately visible networks of connecting, d…
Precarity, Assemblages, and Indonesian Elder Care
The provision (or failure) of care reflects and produces vulnerability in old age. Reliable and appropriate care widely affects the imagination of "good care" of older Indonesians in North Sulawesi. Yet, their striving for better life goes with the growing chronification of conditions and processes with unpredictable endings. Three factors shape such uncertainty in elder care in North Sulawesi: (1) unsustainable, fragile care arrangements; (2) pr…
Waiting for “Good Care”. Biomedicine and the Elderly in North Sulawesi, Indonesia
Older persons in North Sulawesi (Indonesia) shared a long experience with biomedical health interventions during Soeharto’s New Order administration. These vertically and top-down structured development activities in health no longer fit current demographic, epidemiological, and social transformations in Indonesia. The rapidly aging communities, the sharp increase in non-communicable diseases, and aging impairments along with rapidly changing hou…
It is difficult for us to treat their pain”. Health professionals’ perceptions of Somali pastoralists in the context of pain management
Pain is one of the most neglected areas of care in sub-Saharan Africa. Access to adequate pain management is important, especially in marginalised populations, such as pastoralists. Little is known about health professionals' perceptions of pain-related care for Somali pastoralists. This study seeks to understand health professionals' perceptions of Somali pastoralists in the context of pain management in Eastern Ethiopia. Within the scope of thi…
Vulnerability, Relocation and Resilience
Widowed women constitute a majority of India’s older female population. Increasing numbers seek shelter in institutional homes. This qualitative study examines the relocation of older widows into not-for-profit old age homes in India, focusing on their motivations for moving and on resilience practices they employ in the new environment. The research took place in Mangalore, Karnataka, involving in-depth interviews with 15 widows (aged 60 and abo…
Medicine (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · Health care (7 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Gerontology (6 works) · Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Intergenerational Family Dynamics and Caregiving (4 works) · Nursing (4 works)