Online event
We are thrilled to extend a warm invitation to you for our upcoming webinar, which is part of the webinar series on Palliative and End-of-Life Care Research – Methodological Development and Innovation.
During this webinar, Dr. Els van Wijngaarden will discuss how discourse analysis can enrich our end-of-life research. Drawing on a recent discourse analysis about ‘a good death’ and ‘dignified dying’ in Dutch newspapers, she will illustrate how such a method can facilitate a deeper understanding of the context in which people face the end of life. She will argue discourse analysis is not only a promising but also an indispensable way to unravel how the use of dominant language in the public space foregrounds certain values while marginalising or overlooking others. Moreover, it facilitates mapping out how dominant language construes different types of social actions, positions and identities, framing the way people view their own end-of-life situation.
Els van Wijngaarden, PhD, is a care ethicist and associate professor in Contemporary Meanings of Ageing and Dying at the Radboud University Medical Center in Nijmegen in the Netherlands. Her line of research concerns ethical and existential questions regarding death and dying in old age, with a specific interest for the role of choice and control at the end-of-life. She was educated in religious studies and interfaith spiritual care (MA, at VU University Amsterdam). Prior to her work in care ethics and health humanities, she worked as a health chaplain in the care for older people, people with Korsakov and people with mental disabilities.
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