CFP: Death & Dying

9th Global Conference Making Sense Of: Dying and Death | Saturday 10th November – Monday 12th November 2012, Salzburg, Austria Call For Papers: This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference explores dying and death and the ways culture impacts care for the dying, the overall experience of dying, and ways the dead are remembered. Over the past [...]

CFP: Making Sense of Dying & Death

9th Global Conference : Making Sense Of: Dying and Death | Saturday 10th November – Monday 12th November 2012 | Salzburg, Austria Call For Papers: This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference explores dying and death and the ways culture impacts care for the dying, the overall experience of dying, and ways the dead are remembered. Over [...]

CFP: Global Interdisciplinary Conference: The Patient

2nd Global Conference: The Patient (Wednesday 16th May – Friday 18th May 2012, Prague, Czech Republic) The patient occupies a liminal, unstable position, precariously situated between home and hospital, work and bed, life and death. Although attended by doctors, nurses, family and friends, her condition—particularly if it is chronic—threatens to sever her connections with the [...]

CFP: Making Sense of: Dying and Death

Call for Papers: 8th Global Conference, Making Sense of: Dying and Death (Saturday 12th November – Monday 14th November 2011, Hotel Angelo, Prague, Czech Republic) Submissions might be imagined in any (or none) of the following ways: death as an expression of doctrinal beliefs and/or core values, death and dying as an on-going movement between [...]

CFP: Making Sense Of: Dying and Death: Care, Dying and the End of Life

7th Global Conference, Making Sense Of: Dying and Death: Care, Dying and the End of Life, Monday 8th November – Wednesday 10th November 2010, Prague, Czech Republic This inter- and multi-disciplinary conference explores connections between health care systems, caregivers, and matters of public policy that serve those at the end-of-life. As the primary cause of [...]

CFS: Final Moments (Book Anthology)

FINAL MOMENTS: NURSES’ STORIES ABOUT DEATH AND DYING Experiencing the death of a patient is a rite of passage for most nurses. Share a story about: * Your first encounter with the death of a patient * A patient who made a life-changing impression on you * How you have dealt with grief * The [...]