In today's industrial societies, many people die receiving professional care. Although
specialist palliative and hospice care have often been identified as ideal care approaches to …

Our experiences of dying have been shaped by ancient ideas about death and social
responsibility at the end of life. From Stone Age ideas about dying as otherworld journey to …

Steven Epstein experiential knowledge of illness possessed or cultivated by patient groups
or health movements? What sorts of challenges do these lay actors pose to the authority of …

In this article, we overview the contributions to narrative theory and criticism across four
subdisciplines of communication: rhetoric, organizational communication, health …

In this introduction, we examine health activism as one expression of an emergent 'politics of
vitality'or flurry of activity around health matters that includes: advances in technoscientific …

Abstract 'Suffering'is a central discursive trope for the right-to-die movement. In this article,
we ask how proponents of physician-assisted dying (PAD) articulate suffering with the role of …

The Sociology of Healthcare, Second Edition explores the impact of current social changes
on health, illness and healthcare, and provides an overview of the fundamental concerns in …

The institutionalisation of dying is recurrently assessed as adverse to a good death.
However, a majority of people die in institutions such as hospitals or nursing homes and end …

Background This study tests how various kinds of trust impact attitudes toward euthanasia
among the general public. The indication that trust might have an impact on euthanasia …

Rationale There is a paucity of empirical studies exploring how death and dying in old age
are actually represented and debated within the Dutch society. Objective This study …