Major Publications:
A. Leibing (ed.) - Tecnologias do Corpo : Uma antropologia das medicinas no Brasil [Body Technologies: An anthropology of medicines in Brazil], Rio de Janeiro: NAU, 2004.
A. Leibing and Lawrence Cohen (eds.) - Thinking about Dementia
Membership in Academic Societies:
- AAA - American Anthropological Association (USA)
- AAGE - Association for Anthropology and Gerontology (USA)
- Équipe MÉOS (Médicament comme objet social)
- Centre de recherche et d’expertise en gérontologie sociale (CREGES)
- Équipe Politiques, Action, Territoire(PACTE), Centre national de recherche scientifique
Courses Taught:
Qualitative methodology
The multiple dimensions of grief
Aging
Social dimensions of care
Medicine and Society Qualitative methodologies
Context
Medicine, body, and society
Introduction to medical anthropology
Pain, diagnostics, and illness
Individual and person
Thinking the body (with Penelope Scott, London; Rolf Wirsing, Goerlitz and S. Benninghoff-Luehl, Berlin)
Theories of aging
Aging and mental health
Culture and psychiatry
