Lone Grøn is Professor (WSR) at VIVE—The Danish Center for Social Science Research. She has published numerous articles and book chapters on the lived experience of chronic illness, obesity, kinship, aging, and dementia in Denmark, including several coedited volumes of journal special issues: “Contagious Kinship Connections” (Grøn and Meinert 2020, Ethnos); “Social Contagion and Cultural Epidemics: Phenomenological Perspectives” (Meinert and Grøn 2017, Ethos); and “Moral (and Other) Laboratories” (Grøn and Kuan 2017, Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry).
Rasmus Dyring is Associate Professor of Philosophy at Aarhus University. Among Dyring’s works are “From Moral Facts to Human Finitude: On the Problem of Freedom in the Anthropology of Ethics” (HAU, 2018); “The Futures of ‘Us’: A Critical Phenomenology of the Aporias of Ethical Community in the Anthropocene” (Philosophy and Social Criticism, 2021); and “Ellen and the Little One: A Critical Phenomenology of Potentiality in Life with Dementia” (coauthored with Lone Grøn, Anthropological Theory, 2022).
Maria Louw is Associate Professor at the Department of Anthropology, Aarhus University. She is the author of Everyday Islam in Post -Soviet Central Asia (Routledge, 2007) and coeditor, with Cheryl Mattingly, Rasmus Dyring, and Thomas Schwarz Wentzer, of Moral Engines: Exploring the Ethical Drives in Human Life (Berghahn, 2018), as well as author of numerous articles and book chapters dealing with religion, secularism, atheism, morality, ethics, and care in Central Asia.
Maria Speyer is a visual artist represented by Galleri Stokkebro, Denmark. She has illustrated picture books for Høst & Søn and Turbine, Denmark. Her most recent picture book, A Feather on A Wing (University of Queensland Press, 2022), seeks to alleviate feelings of disconnection and loneliness by exploring metaphors that speak of the singular and the collective.
Helle Sofie Wentzer is Senior Researcher at VIVE —The Danish Center for Social Science Research. She has written numerous book chapters and articles on health care interaction, communication, and technology, including “Technology in Context: Vulnerability in Surgery” in Context in Action and How to Study It (Oxford University Press, 2019). She is currently writing the monograph (in Danish) A Safe Meeting—Reorganizing Outpatient Clinics for Covid-19 (VIVE), and contributing to the book Interdisciplinary and Cross-sectorial Collaboration in Nursing (Danish), ed. Ditte Høgsgaard (FADL), with the chapter “Complexity and Entirety in the Care Pathways of Patient-Citizens.”
Susan Reynolds Whyte is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Copenhagen. She is the author of Questioning Misfortune: The Pragmatics of Uncertainty in Eastern Uganda, coauthor of Social Lives of Medicines, and coeditor of Disability in Local and Global Worlds.
