Roundtable: Anthropological perspectives on silence and care at the end of life

How do people speak or not speak about dying and end of life care? Current Western biomedicine and palliative care approaches emphasize open information provision and discussion of end of life care, even though patients and health care providers note that this is not always implemented. At the same time, anthropologists and other scholars point …

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