Special Lecture :
"Spiritual Care Debates in Western Palliative Care"

Professor Kellehear is the director of the palliative care unit at La Trobe University in Australia, and also a researcher of the general clinic at the University of Melbourne medical school. Considering Professor Kellehear's work on the topics of death, dying, and palliative care and loss, it is fitting to call him a "sociologist who puts research into practice." There is an increasing interest in spiritual care within Japan, and we hope that Professor Kellehear's talk on the issues of spiritual care within palliative care in Australia and other Western countries will give suggestions to both the research and the practice in Japan.

• Kellehear, A. (2001) (ed) Grief and Remembering. Melbourne: Rivoli.
• Kellehear, A. (2000) Eternity and Me. Melbourne: Hill of Content Publishing.
• Kellehear, A. (2000) (ed) Death and Dying in Australia. Melbourne: Oxford University Press.