Outputs (4)

Positioning oneself and being positioned in the ‘community': An essay on Jewish ethnography as a ‘Jew-ish’ ethnographer (2016)
Journal Article
Kasstan, B. (2016). Positioning oneself and being positioned in the ‘community': An essay on Jewish ethnography as a ‘Jew-ish’ ethnographer. Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 27, 264-283. https://doi.org/10.30674/scripta.66579

Drawing on ethnographic research in the UK’s only support facility for ageing Jewish Shoah survivors, this paper charts the ‘foodways’ in a Centre where satiety is experienced as an emotional as well as a physical need. How the experience of genocida... Read More about Positioning oneself and being positioned in the ‘community': An essay on Jewish ethnography as a ‘Jew-ish’ ethnographer.

The taste of trauma: Reflections of ageing Shoah survivors on food and how they (re)inscribe it with meaning (2015)
Journal Article
Kasstan, B. (2015). The taste of trauma: Reflections of ageing Shoah survivors on food and how they (re)inscribe it with meaning. Scripta Instituti Donneriani Aboensis, 26, 349-365. https://doi.org/10.30674/scripta.67461

Drawing on ethnographic research in the UK’s only support facility for ageing Jewish Shoah survivors, this paper charts the ‘foodways’ in a Centre where satiety is experienced as an emotional as well as a physical need. How the experience of genocida... Read More about The taste of trauma: Reflections of ageing Shoah survivors on food and how they (re)inscribe it with meaning.

Tokens of Trauma: The Aging Experience of Shoah Survivors in a Jewish Support Center (2015)
Journal Article
Kasstan, B. (2015). Tokens of Trauma: The Aging Experience of Shoah Survivors in a Jewish Support Center. Anthropology and Aging, 36(1), 26-44. https://doi.org/10.5195/aa.2015.81

This paper explores the traumatic memories of ageing Shoah survivors who attend a Jewish social and therapeutic support facility in London (UK). The study investigates the perceived differences in trauma within a diverse group of members who partake... Read More about Tokens of Trauma: The Aging Experience of Shoah Survivors in a Jewish Support Center.

Discovery and validation of urinary metabotypes for the diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma in West Africans (2014)
Journal Article
Ladep, N. G., Dona, A. C., Lewis, M. R., Crossey, M. M., Lemoine, M., Okeke, E., …Taylor-Robinson, S. D. (2014). Discovery and validation of urinary metabotypes for the diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma in West Africans. Hepatology, 60(4), 1291-1301. https://doi.org/10.1002/hep.27264

There is no clinically applicable biomarker for surveillance of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), because the sensitivity of serum alpha-fetoprotein (AFP) is too low for this purpose. Here, we determined the diagnostic performance of a panel of urinary... Read More about Discovery and validation of urinary metabotypes for the diagnosis of hepatocellular carcinoma in West Africans.