In this week’s episode, host Laura Haapio-Kirk is joined by Dr Annelieke Driessen (LSHM), Dr Simon Cohn (LSHM), and Dr Erica Borgstrom (Open University) to discuss their research understanding the forms of work that constitutes palliative care.
Covid-19 has pushed care, death, and dying to the forefront of many people’s minds. In this episode we talk with a research team about what it means to care, and how the understanding of care differs when thinking from a range of perspectives including from biomedical to more holistic approaches.
Today’s guests all work collaboratively on the ESRC-funded project ‘Forms of Care’ which focuses on an important feature of biomedicine – that of ‘not doing’ as an active and often deliberate aspect of care.
You can find today's guests on Twitter at @Annelie3ssen, @ericaborgstrom & @simoncohn, and the Forms of Care project tweets @formsofcare. You can also read more about the project and their research over on their project website.
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