CSDE Research Areas:
- Health of People and Populations
- Wellbeing of Families and Households
In the News:
- Research Co-authored by Shapiro, Gray, Taylor, and Freitag Discusses Expanding the Ethnographic Toolkit to Include Kinless Older Adults Living with Dementia (02/08/2024)
- Kinless Older Adults with Dementia are Studied by Taylor, Gray, Freitag, Shell-Duncan, and Berridge (02/02/2024)
- Congratulations to Participants in CSDE's Grant Writing Workshop (09/26/2019)
- CSDE Welcomes New Affiliates! (11/05/2018)
- Janelle Taylor Receives Supplement Award to Continue Research on Dementia (10/08/2018)
Marlaine Figueroa Gray, PhD, is a medical anthropologist with a passion for eliciting illness narratives and health care experiences from patients, family members and medical professionals. She has researched how the intersection of creative practices and medical care provide insight into understanding the logic of biomedical care, what counts as evidence that a creative activity "works," and how arts activities can serve as a model of how to provide better, more patient-and-family centered care. She is particularly interested in how we attend to patient suffering, and in what types of care are possible when there are no medical treatments available.