Interrogating Death and Dying: Legal, Biomedical and Social Perspectives
6 November 2009
Interrogating Death and Dying: Legal, Biomedical and Social Perspectives
In a world of expanding technological possibilities, death remains a certainty for us all. Nonetheless, death's timing, its trajectory and its social and legal meanings are all being shaped and re-shaped as medical and other technologies present new questions for us
to consider. For instance, when has a person died? What are the limits (if any) to post-mortem uses of the body or its parts? When is merely life prolonged and when is it saved? What are our death rituals and are they still important? How do we understand death and its social significance?
This one-day symposium will bring together scholars and practitioners from law, medicine, the social sciences and the humanities to examine these and other important questions and to generate an interdisciplinary discussion about the contemporary challenges raised by death and dying.
Presenters include;
Dr Bruce Buchan, Senior Lecturer, School of Humanities, Griffith University.
Dr Jaklin Eliott, Social Scientist, Cancer Council Australia, Visiting Research Fellow, School of Psychology & Affiliate Lecturer, Discipline of Public Health, University of Adelaide.
Dr David Ellison, Lecturer, School of Humanities, Griffith University.
Dr Margaret Gibson, Lecturer, School of Humanities, Griffith University.
Dr Jonathan Gillis, Senior Staff Specialist in Intensive Care and Palliative Care Physician, Children's Hospital Westmead and Clinical Associate Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Sydney.
Professor Glennys Howarth, Faculty of Health Social Sciences, University of Sydney.
Professor Isabel Karpin, Faculty of Law, University of Technology.
Dr Kristin Savell, Senior Lecturer, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney.
Dr Cameron Stewart, Associate Professor, Faculty of Law, University of Sydney.
Dr James Tibballs, Associate Professor and Principal Fellow, Departments of Paediatrics and Pharmacology, University of Melbourne.
PLEASE NOTE: Registration for this event is currently suspended as the event is now full. To be placed on a waiting list, please contact our Events Co-ordinator on02 9351 0248 or law.events@usyd.edu.au.
Time: 9.00am - 4.00pm Conference, 8.30am - 9.00am Registration open
Location: Seminar Room 020, Sydney Law School, Building F10, Eastern Avenue, University of Sydney
Cost: $50 inc GST
Contact: Events Coordinator
Phone: 02 9351 0248
