Out on 9 January: Death’s Social and Material Meaning Beyond the Human (Bristol UP) with a chapter by me on Ghanaian funeral banners. Sharing a discount code for #deathstudies#anthrobubble people.
ICYMI: Not intervening as a form of care: Negotiating medical practices at the end-of-life - open access publication from the Forms of Care project anthrosource.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Biomedicine is organized around interventions. Despite growing concern about overtreatment in healthcare systems, not intervening can still raise questions about potential negligence and the quality ...
That moment when you're comparing academic careers only to realise they, a very prolific author, started publishing before you were even born, so why even compare?!
For more: bsky.app/profile/john...
Does palliative care have a problem with…“the c-word”? My blog on BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care Forum: blogs.bmj.com/spcare/2024/...
The OU has collaborated with the charity Made By Dyslexia to support the launch of DyslexicU, a free online university that aims to promote ‘a new school of thought’ by teaching the principles of dyslexic thinking. ounews.co/around-ou/un...
The Open University (OU) has collaborated with the charity ‘Made By Dyslexia’ to support the launch of DyslexicU, a free online university
A few more days until I'm in Brussels for Innovative Palliative Care for People with Cancer eu.eventscloud.com/ereg/newreg....#EUMissions#HorizonEU#MissionCancer
Boo to still having internet issues! Congrats on the work anniversary!
Also interesting that we don't get re-issued cards on a regular basis. But I bet it is better for the environment that we don't :)
🚨New paper! 🚨 tl;dr Hospice staff are uncertain how a “living with covid” approach helps promote quality of life left, but find it difficult to address as Covid-19 mitigations are strongly associated with negative emotions of the emergency period. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 1/🧵
