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Join Professors Rebecca L. Jones and Erica Borgstrom for two inaugural lectures exploring how we understand sexuality and ageing, death and grief. Through research, personal experience and creative…

James Gallagher and the panel consider if an assisted death can guarantee a peaceful end.

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The Open University’s interdisciplinary research centre dedicated to the study and education of death, dying, loss, and grief across the life course and in diverse contexts.

AbstractBackground. Evidence on end-of-life care (EOLC) provision for people with intellectual disabilities in primary care is limited.Methods. A retrospec

This book is the first of its kind to examine key topics in death, dying, and bereavement through a critical lens, highlighting how the understanding and experience of death can vary considerably, bas...

This book is the first of its kind to examine key topics in death, dying, and bereavement through a critical lens, highlighting how the understanding and experience of death can vary considerably, bas...

Erica Borgstrom is endlessly curious and likes to get you to thinking critically about some of the so-called universals of life: death and grief. She is Professor of Medical Anthropology at The Open U...

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Bidding for research funding has increasingly become a main feature of academic work from the doctoral level and beyond. Individually and collectively, the proc...

Dive into fresh takes on ageing, queer joy, and what it means to rethink death in this thought-provoking lecture.

Dive into fresh takes on ageing, queer joy, and what it means to rethink death in this thought-provoking lecture.

Join us for the 'Launch of the Centre for Open Thanatology: Dialogue and Engagement with Death and Loss'

Cambridge Core - Social and Cultural Anthropology - The Cambridge Handbook for the Anthropology of Death

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Dive into fresh takes on ageing, queer joy, and what it means to rethink death in this thought-provoking lecture.

This article draws on ethnographic fieldwork with palliative care teams in the UK to contrast two logics of end-of-life medical care: one oriented towards intervention, the other towards acceptance a...

Dive into fresh takes on ageing, queer joy, and what it means to rethink death in this thought-provoking lecture.

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Three members of the Centre for Open Thanatology share their insights, experiences and advice on death and loss.

This book brings together illuminating interviews with the most influential scholars who have shaped the interdisciplinary field of death studies. From sociological explorations to psychological frame...