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A discussion about ethics is integral to any ethnographic fieldwork preparation. Ethnographic research on end-of-life care poses particular ethical, methodological and emotional challenges. With all team members preparing for fieldwork, the Globalizing Palliative Care project team was very fortunate to have our external ethics advisor Prof. Hansjörg Dilger visit and discuss potential ethical dilemmas with us on Friday 5 November 2021. Many thanks to Prof. Dilger for a lively workshop providing very helpful tools for navigating the field!

Call for Participation for the online workshop Interrogating Speculative Futures: A workshop on the politics of imagining a future with(out) chronic illness on 19 and 20 July 2021.

Natashe Lemos Dekker is the winner of the first Interdem Academy Publication Award. The article Anticipating an Unwanted Future: Euthanasia and Dementia in the Netherlands” was part of her doctoral research and is published open access in the Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI). In this article Lemos Dekker theorizes from a social scientific perspective …

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In this blogpost for the Leiden Anthropology Blog, Globalizing Palliative Care researcher Natashe Lemos Dekker reflects on the role of the written statement in the timing of euthanasia with dementia in the Netherlands.

In this blogpost for the European Association for Palliative Care, Annemarie Samuels and Natashe Lemos Dekker introduce the Globalizing Palliative Care research project.

Dr Annemarie Samuels and Dr Natashe Lemos Dekker were interviewed about the “Globalizing Palliative Care” project.