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Special Lecture :
"Current Developments in Death Studies in the UK and Europe"
- Lecturer :
- Prof.Glennys Howarth (University of Bath)
April 8, 2004 17:00-19:00
at 217 lecture room, Faculty of Letters, The University of Tokyo
On April 8 (Thursday) an open lecture by Grennys
Howarth, a professor at the University of Bath, was held at the
University of Tokyo.
Professor Howarth discussed the developments and the changing approach
of Death Studies in the United Kingdom. Specifically, she outlined the
approaches to the topic of "death" in researches from Humanities
discipline. Professor Howarth also discussed how the approaches of clinical
practice that takes place in areas of "death" and the elements
of researches from bioethical research have intersected, diverged, and
related to each other historically. In these discussions, she illuminated
how the death studies in the U.K differs from that of the U.S. (and
Japan which was heavily influenced by the American death studies). For
instance, the bioethical researches in the U.K is conducted by the experts
in clinical practice, and that bioethics as a discipline is not necessarily
an "independent" field in the U.K. Moreover, in the recent
years, clinical researches tend to cooperate with the researches and
project from the Humanities disciplines in the U.K. What is different,
however, is that unlike other cases of cooperation between medical and
humanities projects that tends to rely on religion as a component of
practice, projects in the U.K does not seem keen to focus on religion.
During the question and answer period, discussions included topics
of education about death in schools. Professor Allan
Kellehear who also studies similar topics in Australia was in
the audience, and the dialogues included comparisons of death studies
among the U.K, Australia, and Japan.
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