Seeing the Difference
A Project on Viewing Death and Dying in Interdisciplinary Perspective

"Conversations on Death and Dying"
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Preface

Sessions:

I. Silence, Art and Ritual

II. Time--Counting the Moments/Making Moments Count
III. Vision--Confronting the Margin
IV. Speech/Finding the Language


Author Bios

 

 

 
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  Session One:
Silence, Art and Ritual

 

 Editor's Note

Jim Goldberg, photographer

Sandra Gilbert, Ph.D., English, University of California, Davis

Gary Laderman, Ph.D., Religion, Emory University

Comment: Jodi Halpern, M.D., Ph.D., Joint Medical Program, UC Berkeley/UCSF

Discussion
 
 

Session Two:
Time--Counting the Moments/
Making Moments Count





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 Editor's Note

Debu Tripathy, M.D., Oncologist, University of California, San Francisco

Michael Witmore, Ph.D., English, Carnegie Mellon University

Lawrence Schneiderman, M.D., Bioethicist, University of California, San Diego

Comment: Guy Micco, M.D., Joint Medical Program, UC Berkeley/UCSF

Discussion
 
 

Session Three:
Vision--Confronting the Margin

 

Editor's Note

Panel Chair: LaVera Crawley, M.D., Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics

Thomas Cole, Historian, Institute for Medical Humanities, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston

Frank Gonzalez-Crussi, M.D., Pathologist, Children's Memorial Hospital, Chicago

Comment: Patricia Benner, R.N., Ph.D., Physiological Nursing, UCSF

Discussion
 
 

Session Four:
Speech/Finding the Language




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Editor's Note

Shai Lavi, Jurisprudence and Social Policy, Boalt Hall School of Law, UC Berkeley

Darcy Buerkle, History, Claremont Graduate University

Elizabeth Dungan, History of Art, UC Berkeley

Discussion