Annette Leibing

Annette Leibing
Université de Montréal | UdeM · Faculty of Nursing

M.A., PhD (medical anthropology)

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Introduction
Annette Leibing is a medical anthropologist (PhD U Hamburg, postdoc McGill U), who had her first academic position at the Inst. of Psychiatry (Federal U of Rio de Janeiro), She is now full professor at the Nursing faculty (Université de Montréal), and member of the research groups MéOS (social aspects of medications), CREGÉS (social gerontology), PACTE (politics and health, in Grenoble, France), and PEPAS (subjectivity + health, in Rio de Janeiro). SEE MORE PUBLICATIONS ON Academia.edu
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June 2006 - present
Université de Montréal
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  • Professor (Full)
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  • Professor of medical anthropology
August 2003 - present
CREGÉS - Centre de recherche et d'expertise en gérontologie sociale
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  • Researcher
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  • 2003-2006 institutional researcher 2006 - today researcher
August 2000 - April 2001
McGill University
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  • PostDoc Position
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  • and 2002-2005; Margaret Lock, supervisor

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Publications (104)
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This article focuses on Canadian stem cell researchers working on therapeutic applications of autologous stem cells for heart disease. Building on the concept of ‘multiverse’ – coined by William James and then further developed by Ernst Bloch – we are interested in the simultaneity of the certain and uncertain, sometimes contradictory arguments art...
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Discussions regarding personhood and dementia care are often based on practices of recognition; on notions of being-or not being-'one of us'. This article provides a short overview of personhood as articulated in dementia care, especially in the assemblage of practices known as 'person-centred care' (PCC), and in post-human approaches that develope...
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Global mobility is one of the crucial phenomena of our time. Combining the theoretical frameworks of masculinity studies and age studies, the contributors to this volume examine the intersection of cultural exchange, gender and age, exploring ageing masculinities with reference to the key concepts of relationality, kinship and care. The essays anal...
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Experts' views on the use of mostly digital technologies for dementia prevention are characterized by a simultaneity of "gerontechnological optimism" and skeptical hesitancy. Despite the hope for progress in dementia prevention through preventive technologies, experts also point to the complexity of prevention, the importance of environmental facto...
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Dementia has lately undergone a profound reconceptualization. Long conceived of as an unpreventable process of mental deterioration, current evidence shows that it can be prevented in at least one in three cases intervening on a specified set of factors. Issues of justice and equity loom large on the implementation of dementia prevention, from a gl...
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Political scientist Richard Freeman, in 1992, wrote about the paradox that "nowhere is there agreement about quite what prevention is, while everywhere there is agreement that it is a good thing". Also, philosopher Peter Sloterdijk (2018) questions the centrality of prevention in many societies as a (Christian) illusion-as if "self-defense could be...
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L’entrée en vigueur de l’aide médicale à mourir (AMM) au Québec et au Canada pose la question de l’élargissement de cette prestation à des mineurs. La présence soutenue des infirmières au chevet du patient les amène à recevoir des demandes liées à l’AMM. Le but de cette étude est d’explorer les perceptions d’infirmières oeuvrant en service d’oncolo...
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The concept of person‐centeredness has become in many instances the standard of health care that humanises services and ensures that the patient/client is at the centre of care delivery. Rejecting a purely biomedical explanation of dementia that led to a loss of self, personhood in dementia could be maintained through social interaction and communi...
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Based on ethnographies carried out in a Brazilian metropolis— the Federal District— we propose focusing on ‘logics of care’ in order to get closer to what is at stake in care work. Here we follow Annemarie Mol (2008), who claims that processes that involve care have their internal logics and that we can approach them by observing— from concrete sit...
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Objectives: Practices of social inclusion are important for maintaining the relationships of persons with dementia and are associated with positive clinical outcomes. The objective of this study was to explore the in-action practices of social inclusion in the activity center of a community-based organization. Methods: This study applies an ethnogr...
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Background Self-care (i.e., the actions towards monitoring and managing chronic illness and maintaining health) is an essential aspect of chronic disease management. These experiences are shaped by culture and values, health literacy, support from others and access to care. We conducted a study to explore the chronic illness self-care experiences a...
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We conducted a literature review to document what is known regarding the self-care experiences and various influencing factors among adults living with chronic disease in Indonesia, from the perspective of those living with the illness. We searched CINAHL and Google Scholar to identify peer-reviewed research focused on men and/or women living with...
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The conceptualization of dementia has changed dramatically in recent years with the claim that, through early detection and by controlling several risk factors, a prevention of dementia is possible. Although encouraging and providing hope against this feared condition, this claim is open to scrutiny. This volume looks at how this new conceptualizat...
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From the laughing clubs of India and robotic granny minders of Japan to the “Flexsecurity” system of Denmark and the elderscapes of Florida, experts in this collection bring readers cutting-edge and future-focused approaches to our aging population worldwide. In this fourth edition of an award-winning text on the consequences of global aging, a tea...
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The purpose of this article is to describe interprofessional relations in order to better understand their impact on nurse retention, while considering the operating room culture and its specific context. A focused ethnography was performed between September and October 2017 at a university hospital in an urban center in the province of Quebec, Can...
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The expression "public opinion" has long been part of common parlance. However, its value as a scientific measure has been the topic of abundant academic debates over the past several decades. Such debates have produced more variety and contestations rather than consensus on the very definition of public opinion, let alone on how to measure it. Thi...
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Recently, a major turning point in the field of dementia research has occurred: serious and independent studies have shown that there are risk factors that can be modified in ways that reduce dementia risk. However, the reality behind this hopeful message is much more complex than simply translating it into concrete public health prescriptions rega...
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Based on fieldwork in a specialized geriatric outpatient clinic in Brazil, this article shows how a humanistic discourse that 'means well' can do good, but can also produce a regime of care that ultimately results in care that is contrary to stated values. These values - such as holistic care, multidisciplinarity, and empathy - that have been at th...
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This article is about the recent and profound changes in the conceptualization of dementia, especially the turn towards prevention. The main argument is that more attention needs to be paid to “situated prevention” — the framing of internationally circulating data on the “new dementia” in different contexts. After introducing some of the more probl...
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Cell and tissue engineering is characterized by strong social and political issues that need more information to the public and well-balanced regulations regarding the biological reality of these biotechnologies This presents many educational and translational challenges in structuring the scientiic debate and the implementation of appropriate cult...
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Background: Although it is well known that hand hygiene is the most effective measure to prevent health care-associated infections, hand hygiene adherence is low in Quebec, as it is elsewhere. For this study, an innovative framework was used to explore the clinical practice of nurses regarding hand hygiene and the factors that influence it: positi...
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Resumo: A etnografia é o método de investigação por excelência da Antropologia. De ampla abrangência, ela permite o uso de várias técnicas na coleta de dados e incorpora na análise elementos observados e obtidos no campo. Na Saúde Coletiva, pode contribuir na compreensão do processo saúde/doença, dos valores e das atitudes de profissionais e de pac...
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Cardiac diseases are responsible for a high number of premature deaths and disabilities, especially among older men. And although there exists now a “misery of choice” (Jones 2013) regarding the manifold kinds of interventions targeting heart diseases, about 50% of individuals die within 5 years after a severe cardiac incident. Stem cell treatments...
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Conference on ethical, legal, and social issues regarding Alzheimer's disease
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This article focuses on Canadian stem cell researchers working on therapeutic appli- cations of autologous stem cells for heart disease. Building on the concept of ‘multiverse’ – coined by William James and then further developed by Ernst Bloch – we are interested in the simultaneity of the certain and uncertain, sometimes contradictory arguments a...
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Based on a review of the literature published in the early twenty-first century by Brazilian researchers, the article offers an overview of stem cell research in Brazil. Three central topics were detected in these papers: (1) the funding of stem cell research in Brazil; (2) preclinical and clinical trials in Brazil; and (3) social anthropological...
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Stem cells are fundamental devices of biomedical practice based on the notion that the body is able to supply the medication necessary to prolong life. Consequently, the concept of biotechnological autonomy is formulated, which is important for our analysis of longevity, an analogy to the analysis of fi niteness. In this paper, discourses were eval...
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Although the risk factors, biomarkers, and medications for Alzheimer’s disease appear to be almost identical in both 1993 and 2013, some major differences in the conceptualization of the disease can be detected in this time period, especially the more recent trend towards prevention. While some preventive practices (such as brain training) and the...
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Workshop at the Brocher Foundation, Genebra, Switzerland, 14-15 April, 2016.
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CASCA/SANA conference in Halifax, May 2016
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One of the ways to understand the many trajectories of aging is to focus on individuals who have, for a variety of reasons, enjoyed privileged access to health care and are therefore able to envisage an aging process that would not otherwise have been possible. This article is based on interviews conducted with men aged 53 to 77, living in a major...
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This article is about older women and the way hypertension is linked to their life in a favela, a “shantytown”, in Rio de Janeiro. Inspired by Foucault, I suggest calling this complex phenomenon ‘heterotopic illness’. By calling attention to the importance of place for understanding certain illnesses, the limited usefulness of some public health pr...
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Although the risk factors, biomarkers, and medications for Alzheimer's disease appear to be almost identical in 1993 and 2013, profound changes can de detected throughout this time period. This article maps these recent changes in the conceptualization of Alzheimer's disease, especially the emerging trend toward prevention. While some preventive pr...
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This article compares health promotion attitudes towards prostate cancer and Alzheimer's disease. Our aim is to demonstrate that these two apparently distinct conditions of the aging body - one affecting the male reproductive system, the other primarily the brain - are addressed in similar fashion in recent public health activities because of a gro...
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Most studies on benzodiazepines emphasize overconsumption and warn of addiction, especially by older adults. This article is about the avoidance of benzodiazepine medications by 'aging' women living in a Brazilian village. This case study helps to support our central concern: to call attention to the ambiguities that exist in discussing these medic...
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Se analizan cuatro "escuelas" de enfoques cualitativos para la escritura etnográfica sobre la base del rol de autor/escritor: Naturalismo, etnometodología, emocionalismo y posmodernismo (si es que tal enfoque existe). En cada uno de estos enfoques el autor se expresa desde posiciones diferentes, explorando así, desde distintos ángulos, la realidad...
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This study illuminates the concept of "aging in place" in terms of functional, symbolic, and emotional attachments and meanings of homes, neighbourhoods, and communities. It investigates how older people understand the meaning of "aging in place," a term widely used in aging policy and research but underexplored with older people themselves. Older...
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Why, after 40 years of intensive research, is adherence to treatment still an issue? This paper suggests a possible solution to an apparently unsolvable problem: reconceptualizing adherence. To understand how adherence can affect key personnel in any western health system, this study focuses on community nurses working with older mental health pati...
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The World Health Organization (WHO) South East Asia Region is the smallest region among the 6 WHO world regions in number of countries but it contributes to 28% of its population. The demographic transition (from a high child mortality and a low life expectancy to a low child mortality and a high life expectancy) is happening in a high speed: the r...
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Les technologies de l'espoir. La fabrique d'une histoire à accomplir Extrait PDF Envoyer à un ami Les technologies de l'espoir. La fabrique d'une histoire à accomplir Informations Sous la direction de : Annette Leibing, Virginie Tournay Collection: Société, cultures et santé Discipline: Économie, Sociologie Parution: 22 juin 2010 320 pages 34.95...
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Si les enjeux des innovations thérapeutiques font l'objet de nombreuses investigations en sciences sociales dans le cas de la santé humaine, le monde de la médecine vétérinaire reste beaucoup moins exploré. Pourtant, avec la succession récente de diverses affaires ou crises sanitaires impliquant des maladies animales transmissibles à l'homme (gripp...
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Cet ouvrage collectif est un plaidoyer pour développer un cadre d'analyse particulier aux technologies de l'espoir. Elles rassemblent l'ensemble des procédés biotechnologiques définis par leurs promoteurs comme des outils médicaux dotés d'une capacité potentielle à préserver ou à prolonger la vie. Restituer cette histoire nécessite de regarder simu...
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This article discusses the two major groups of Alzheimer medications, which are hotly debated in the specialized literature because of their doubtful efficacy. Examining this issue under the rubric of an ;anthropology of uncertainty,' this article seeks to address the question: how do doctors prescribe medications given tensions created by uncertai...
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Virtual communities are an especially rich subject for social scientists studying the dynamic and multifaceted ways that groups negotiate health-related knowledge. What are the forces shaping the health information that virtual community members circulate, evaluate and incorporate? This article explores health information circulating on an internat...
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When, in the 1980s, Alzheimer's disease became a disease of major public concern, 'personhood' also became an important, related topic of discussion. Those in caring professions (psychology, social work, etc.) and caregiver groups advocated for the 'person within' who was getting lost in a forgetful body and in a reductionist biomedical system. Thi...
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Dia-Ethnography of the ShadowThe Blurred Borders between Ethnography and the Ethnographer's LifeAnthropologists' Selves in the FieldApproaching Issues in the ShadowConclusion NotesReferences
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The Shadow Side of Fieldwork draws attention to the typically hidden or unacknowledged aspects of ethnographic fieldwork encounters that nevertheless shape the resulting knowledge and texts. Addressing these invisible, elusive, unspoken or mysterious elements introduces a distinctive rigor and responsibility to ethnographic research. Luminaries in...
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div style="left: 80.7408px; top: 560.329px; font-size: 15.45px; font-family: sans-serif; transform: scaleX(0.890161);" data-canvas-width="54.285000000000004"> Africa is a region where a demographic transition from high child mortality and low life expectancy, to low child mortality and high life expectancy is only just beginning. Nevertheless, so...
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Background: The Western Pacific Region of the World Health Organization (WHO) contains 27% of the world population and 29% of the world population of elderly people: it is the oldest among the six WHO regions. The demographic transition (from high child mortality and low life expectancy to a low child mortality and high life expectancy) is happenin...
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Cultural responses to most illnesses differ; dementia is no exception. These responses, together with a society's attitudes toward its elderly population, affect the frequency of dementia-related diagnoses and the nature of treatment. Bringing together essays by nineteen respected scholars, this unique volume approaches the subject from a variety o...
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Background: Awareness of disease is a concept related to the recognition of deficits, lack of knowledge of cognitive deficits or, also, to the awareness of deficits in activities of daily living in Alzheimer’s disease. Objective: This review aimed at comparing definitions and etiological hypotheses for awareness of disease in Alzheimer’s disease. M...
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Background: Awareness of disease is a concept related to the recognition of deficits, lack of knowledge of cognitive deficits or, also, to the awareness of deficits in activities of daily living in Alzheimer's disease. Objective: This review aimed at comparing definitions and etiological hypotheses for awareness of disease in Alzheimer's disease. M...
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SCENE 1: It was my first day of observation at a small psychogeriatric outpatient clinic, part of the Institute of Psychiatry at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). This was one of my field sites for my study of the psychiatry of aging. In came the first patient, a small, friendly woman of sixty-four. She sat down in front of the atten...
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The World Health Organization (WHO) European Region (EURO) contributes to 14% of the world population and to 26% of the world old population: it is the second oldest region among the six WHO regions. The demographic transition has happened in different speed among the 51 countries but the majority of them are now in a context of low child mortality...
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BACKGROUND: Awareness of disease is a concept related to the recognition of deficits, lack of knowledge of cognitive deficits or, also, to the awareness of deficits in activities of daily living in Alzheimer's disease. OBJECTIVE: This review aimed at comparing definitions and etiological hypotheses for awareness of disease in Alzheimer's disease. M...
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To evaluate the presence and the level of awareness of disease in mild and moderate Alzheimer's disease (AD). Cross-sectional evaluation of patients with mild/moderate AD (n=42) assessed by Assessment of Psychosocial Impact of the Dementia Diagnosis (APSID), Mini-mental State Examination (MMSE) and Clinical Dementia Rating Scale (CDR). Awareness of...
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Psicóloga, Doutoranda do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Psiquiatria e Saúde Mental IPUB Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro RJ, Brasil (UFRJ), bolsista CNPq; 2 Coordenador do Centro de Doença de Alzheimer e outros transtornos mentais na velhice do Instituto de Psiquiatria da UFRJ, Professor Adjunto da Faculdade de Faculdade de Medicina da Universi...
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This article identifies the main categories, notions, and values associated with aging in articles published in urban Brazilian print media 1967–2002, and uses these categories to trace several historical changes regarding what constitutes “successful” aging in Brazil. The historical changes include the transition of aging from a divine to more wor...
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Cet article vise à problématiser le « mouvement pour la personne » dans le domaine des soins de la maladie d’Alzheimer. L’histoire récente de ce mouvement, lequel viendrait sauver « la personne à l’intérieur », l’inscrit dans une opposition explicite à l’approche biomédicale. On juge que cette dernière nie la personne en mettant l’accent sur la cog...
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This article examines one aspect of Alzheimer's disease, which describes it as a "memory disease". In the specific context of urban Brazil this relatively new illness category, which is creating a certain tension with older concepts of senility, is seen within the changing world of the Country's memory politics - and a changing culture of aging - w...
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Résumé Dans son article sur les sociétés post-traditionnelles, Giddens recommande l’instauration d’une « démocratie dialogique » pour remplir le vide laissé par la disparition des ordres moraux traditionnels. Dans cet article, je suggère qu’au Brésil, une démocratie dialogique factice, fondée sur l’inversion, a pour effet de réduire au silence la v...

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