crucible of the incurable: facing als

＂An anthropological inquiry into how people with the neurodegenerative illness amyotrophic lateral sclerosis live with the illness, and how they are accompanied by medical professionals and loved ones in giving form to a life with this illness＂--

Anthony Stavrianakis is a CNRS Researcher at the Laboratoire d’ethnologie et de sociologie comparative, University of Paris, Nanterre. His anthropological work concerns the logic of inquiry in the sciences, and questions of knowledge, truth, and subjectivity in the fields of medicine, art and psychoanalysis.