Researcher profile #6671

STAVRIANAKIS
Anthony
Research Anthropologist
Which conditions or patient groups does your research focus on?
Assignment
Laboratoire d’ethnologie et de sociologie comparative
LESC / UMR 7186 CNRS
Université Paris Nanterre
Maison des Sciences de l'Homme - Mondes
Bâtiment René Ginouvès
21 allée de l'université
92023 NANTERRE CEDEX
Your fields of study
Anthropology
Keywords (3–5) specifying your research topics
Surveys
Narrativity
Desire to live
Death wish
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Selected publications

Stavrianakis, A., 2024, Crucible of the Incurable: Facing ALS (New York, Cornell University Press)

Stavrianakis, A., 2020, Leaving: A narrative of assisted suicide (Berkeley, University of California Press)

Stavrianakis, A., 2018, Le suicide assisté au tribunal. Le modèle suisse face à la demande des personnes atteintes de troubles psychiatriques, Sciences sociales et santé, 36 (4) : 93-117, en ligne : https://www.jle.com/10.1684/sss.2018.0126.

Stavrianakis, A., 2017, Penser l’évidence. Détermination et indétermination dans la mort volontaire, Terrain, en ligne : http://journals.openedition.org/terrain/16111

Stavrianakis, A., 2017, Thinking the Obvious. Determination and Indetermination in a Voluntary Death, Terrain, en ligne : http://journals.openedition.org/terrain/16103.

A brief description of your work

From 2013 to 2023, he worked on two projects concerning death and illness: the first focused on assisted suicide in Switzerland (2013-2019), and the second on amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (field in California), a neurodegenerative disease (2019-2021). Today, he is concerned with the links and blind spots between anthropology and psychoanalysis, analyzing the creative acts of people in psychic suffering.

What conditions does your research focus on?