Globalizing Palliative Care

Month: February 2023

Online webinar with Jessica Robbins: Aging Nationally in contemporary Poland

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We are very happy to announce that Associate Professor Jessica Robbins (Institute of Gerontology and Department of Anthropology at Wayne State University) will talk about her recent book Aging Nationally in Contemporary Poland: Memory, Kinship, and Personhood, during the next online webinar of our Unfolding Finitudes series. Dr. Olivia Killias (University of Zürich) will act …

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Lecture: When Hospice isn’t a ‘Choice’

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In the talk “When Hospice Isn’t a ‘Choice’: Disregard, Care and End of Life on the American Periphery” Dr. Devin Flaherty discusses the peculiar role of hospice care on the island of St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands—and its tragic, deleterious consequences for older adults nearing the end of life there. This talk takes place on Tuesday 28th of February 2023 and is organized by the Globalizing Palliative Care research project and the Leiden University Medical Anthropology Network (LUMAN) and hosted at the Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Sociology.