Nurse and Anthropologist. PhD in Medical Anthropology from the Rovira i Virgili University (2009). Full Professor at the Department of Nursing, Rovira i Virgili University (URV). URV Coordinator of the Ibero-American Nursing Network (RIE). Representative in the MARC by the Department of Nursing. She has been a researcher and visiting professor at the Center for Research and Higher Studies in Social Anthropology (CIESAS, Mexico City), Department of Anthropology of the Autonomous University of the State of Morelos (Cuernavaca, Mexico), and at the Institute of Collective Health, Federal University of Bahia (Salvador, Bahia, Brazil).
Research lines: Her main line of work is the sociocultural study of dementia, with a special emphasis on Alzheimer's disease. On this topic, she has published the book: Recuerdos del corazón: vivencias, prácticas y representaciones sociales de familiares cuidadores de personas con alzhéimer. Editorial Group 5, 2015.
Email: mariaantonia.martorell(ELIMINAR)@urv.cat
