Els van Dongen (1946-2009)

Chapters in books 

 

1994    “What do you want?” Negotiations of reality of therapists and psychotic patients in a Dutch psychiatric hospital. In: E. Hitters & W. de Vos (eds), Promotieonderzoek aan de Faculteit der Sociale Wetenschappen. Utrecht: ISOR.
1998    “I wish for a happy end.” Hope in the lives of chronic schizophrenic patients. In: E. van Dongen & S. van Londen, Anthropology of difference. Utrecht: ISOR.
2000    This will never leave me. Elderly’s experiences of chronic mental illness. In: A. Guerci (ed), Diseases, cultures and society. Genova: Erga Edizione.
2000    Anthropology and psychiatry: Two of a kind but where is the other? In: V. Skultans & J. Cox, Anthropological approaches to psychological medicine. Crossing bridges. London: Jessica Kingsley Publishers.
2000    Migrants and health care in the Netherlands (together with R. van Dijk). In: P. Vulpiani, J. Comelles & E. van Dongen (eds), Health for all, all in health. Rome: Cides/Alisei.
2000    “Not migrants have to adapt, but health care institutes.” The Dutch situation: Results from the survey and three ‘best cases’ (together with M. Tankink). In: P. Vulpiani, J. Comelles & E. van Dongen (eds), Health for all, all in health. Rome: Cides/Alisei.
2002    Testing  reality: Therapists and schizophrenic people in a psychiatric hospital in the Netherlands In S. van der Geest & R. Reis (eds), Ethnocentrism: reflections on medical anthropology. Amsterdam: Aksant.
2002    It is not nice to be an old person. Loneliness of old people on the Cape Flats. In A. Guerci & S. Consigliere (eds), Living and “curing” old age in the world, Vol. 3, Old age in the world, Genova: Erga Edizioni, pp. 260-278.
2002    Trauma en de politiek van het vergeten en herinneren. Een antropoloog kijkt naar de “trauma-business”. In: Bot, H. et al (eds), Culturen op de vlucht. Over transculturele psychiatrische zorg aan asielzoekers en vluchtelingen. De Gelderse Roos, afdeling Phoenix, Ede.
2002    Skeletons of the past, flesh and blood of the present: Remembrance and older people in a South African context. In S. Makoni & K. Stroeken (eds), Ageing in Africa. Sociolinguistic and anthropological approaches. Aldershot: Ashgate, pp. 257-277.
2003    Big mother is watching you. In A. Oderwald, F. Meulenberg & W. van Tilburg, De taal van het gevoel. Amsterdam/Antwerpen: Atlas, pp. 89-103.
2004    Introduction: the compatibility of old age memory, identity and misery in new South African society (together with Monica Ferreira. In: Untold stories. Giving voice to the lives of older persons in new South African Society. Cape Town: The Albertina and Walter Sisulu Institute of Ageing in Africa/University of Cape Town, pp. 1-13.
2004    Doing memory in times of misery. Can older people in South Africa work through? In: Untold stories. Giving voice to the lives of older persons in new South African Society. Cape Town: The Albertina and Walter Sisulu Institute of Ageing in Africa/University of Cape Town, pp. 67-80.
2004    “Things were better then.” The everyday life world of older people in Belhar (together with Allanise Cloete. In: Untold stories. Giving voice to the lives of older persons in new South African Society. Cape Town: The Albertina and Walter Sisulu Institute of Ageing in Africa/University of Cape Town, pp. 81-93.
2004    Mundane misery. Older persons in Heideveld give voice to their lives (together with Virgin Palm). In: Untold stories. Giving voice to the lives of older persons in new South African Society. Cape Town: The Albertina and Walter Sisulu Institute of Ageing in Africa/University of Cape Town, pp. 94-107.
2004    Epilogue: Sorrows and resilience. Hope for the future? (Together with Monica Ferreira). In: Untold stories. Giving voice to the lives of older persons in new South African Society. Cape Town: The Albertina and Walter Sisulu Institute of Ageing in Africa/University of Cape Town, pp. 115-121.
2005    A lie to die? The power of the theatre of lying. In: Els van Dongen & Sylvie Fainzang (eds), Lying & Illness. Power & Performance. Amsterdam: Aksant, pp. 92-113
2007    Verhalen in de antropologie: Wat Zuid-Afrikaanse ouderen en antropologen doen met levensverhalen. In: E. Bohlmeijer, L. Mies & G. Westerhof (eds), De betekenis van levensverhalen. Theoretische beschouwingen en toepassingen in onderzoek en praktijk. Houten: Bohn Stafleu van Loghum, pp. 193-203.
2007    The other’s pain is the anthropologist’s strain. Crisis of proximity in medical anthropology of suffering. In: E. van Dongen & R. Kutalek (eds), Facing distress. Distance and proximity in times of illness. Vienna: LIT Verlag, pp. 21-41.
2007    Farewell to Fieldwork? Constraints in Anthropological Research in Violent Situations and Their Effects on the Body of Knowledge. In: R. Littlewood (ed), On knowing and not knowing in the anthropology of medicine. … Berg Publishers, pp. …
2009    Keeping the feet of the gods and the saints warm: Mundane pragmatics in times of suffering and uncertainty. In: S. van der Geest & M. Tankink (eds), Theory and action. Essays for an anthropologist. Diemen: AMB Publishers, pp. 1-10.
2010    Misery, medicine and morality. Succesful ageing and spirituality in South Africa. In: J. Bouwer (ed), Succesful ageing, spirituality and meaning. Multidisciplinary perspectives. Leuven etc.: Peeters, pp. 151-167.
2010    Saving my soul. In: R. Park & S. van der Geest (eds), Doing and living medical anthropology. Personal reflections. Diemen: AMB Publishers, pp. 107-115.
2010    Cancer and integrity. Dealing with fragile realities. In: S. Fainzang, H.E. Hem & M.B. Risør (eds), The taste for knowledge. Medical anthropology facing medical realities. Aarhus: Aarhus University Press, pp. 237-252.
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