At the end of January 2014 I learned that I had been successful in winning a Wellcome Trust Senior Investigator Award in the Medical Humanities. The new project starts on 1st March 2015 and is focussed on improving our understanding of interventions at the end life. It will take a global perspective and will… Continue reading
Interventions at the end of life – social, comparative and historical analysis to promote global improvement. It’s an unwieldy title and it contains a lot of dimensions. It will be a challenging project to design, to conduct and to deliver. But what an opportunity to invest major time and resources in an issue of such… Continue reading
Providing care for people at the end of life is now a pressing humanitarian issue for the 21st century. Yet it is also becoming the focus of divided opinion, conflicting professional standpoints, disagreements about the quality and significance of clinical evidence, and competing models of care delivery. Meanwhile population ageing, changing patterns of mortality and… Continue reading
