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Development and Organization of Death and Life Studies
Prof. SHIMAZONO, Susumu, program leader
 Death
and Life Studies (DALS) is a new academic discipline which seeks
points of contact and exchange between the Medical Field, the
Social Sciences, and the Humanities. Although contemporary medical
facilities expend a great deal of effort in caring for those who
are dying, all cannot be solved through the Natural-Science-based
modern medical paradigm. Beginning in the 1960s, the Hospice movement,
for example, has made tremendous strides in North America and
Europe, and education and research designed to meet the needs
of those patients (and their families) who are facing death has
progressed.
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