{"title":"Processes and partitions: Two logics of end-of-life care","authors":"Simon Cohn, Annelieke Driessen, Erica Borgstrom","doi":"10.1111/1467-8322.70058","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-8322.70058","url":null,"abstract":"<p>This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork with palliative care teams in the UK to contrast two logics of end-of-life medical care: one oriented towards intervention, the other towards acceptance and accompaniment. Through a series of illustrative cases, the authors describe how each logic not only shapes what practitioners do, but how they imagine the object of their care. The article traces these contrasting practices to different conceptualizations of life itself: life as a possession, to be protected and preserved; or life as a process, in which the priority is to sustain interaction and responsiveness, even as capacities diminish.</p>","PeriodicalId":46293,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Today","volume":"42 2","pages":"4-6"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2026-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8322.70058","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683122","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Difficult endings: Unsettling hospice ideology through an image archive","authors":"Gaudenz Metzger","doi":"10.1111/1467-8322.70064","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-8322.70064","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Image archives, used as dialogical instruments in ethnographic research, can unsettle the care ideologies they were created to promote. This article draws on the photographic archive of Dame Cicely Saunders, founder of the modern hospice movement, whose images portray St Christopher's Hospice in London as a place of peaceful and dignified dying. Around 200 historical photographs were shared with current staff and volunteers in group workshops, eliciting testimony that complicated this portrayal. Through the lens of hauntology, the analysis examines two themes: complicated deaths, in which intersecting temporalities produce haunting experiences for patients and caregivers that trouble the ideal of a ‘good death’; and marginalized deaths, in which the archive's silences around HIV patients reveal how institutional and sociopolitical dynamics shaped who was included in the hospice's care and its visual record.</p>","PeriodicalId":46293,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Today","volume":"42 2","pages":"11-14"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2026-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://rai.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/1467-8322.70064","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683124","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Only God knows the hour of your death: End-of-life care in France","authors":"Carolyn Sargent, Kimberly Arkin","doi":"10.1111/1467-8322.70061","DOIUrl":"10.1111/1467-8322.70061","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Palliative care often positions itself as an alternative to the hubris of curative medicine, claiming to centre the patient rather than the physician's authoritative knowledge. This article examines that claim through the lens of ‘epistemological modesty’ and the long-debated question of ‘medical truth telling’, drawing on fieldwork with Parisian oncologists treating West African women with breast cancer and with palliative care practitioners in southern France. It shows that there is considerable variation in how both oncologists and palliative care providers approach dying patients. It argues that, in the context of militant French secularism, both kinds of practitioners tend to fail at epistemological modesty in similar circumstances: when faced with patients whose cultural and religious frameworks differ markedly from their own.</p>","PeriodicalId":46293,"journal":{"name":"Anthropology Today","volume":"42 2","pages":"19-22"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2026-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147683125","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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