Aging and Dying in America--NYU's Love & Let Die symposium

Love & Let Die, NYU symposium, June 1, 2013

An anthropological overview of aging and dying in America
with Sharon Kaufman (UCSF) and Martha Holstein (Loyola, Chicago), introduced by Samuel Carter (Institute for Public Knowledge)

Sharon Kaufman, Chair of the Department of Anthropology, History and Social Medicine at University of California, San Francisco, is a medical anthropologist with research interests in the changing culture and structure of U.S. medicine; end-of-life; aging; subjectivity; the relationship of biotechnologies to ethics, governance and medical practice; the shifting terrain of evidence in clinical science; practices of risk assessment; and the anthropology of forms of life. Her books include And a Time to Die: How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life and The Ageless Self: Sources of Meaning in Late Life.

Martha Holstein teaches bioethics and ethics for human service providers at Loyola University in Chicago and conducts research on ethics, policy, and community-based long term care in affiliation with the Health and Medicine Policy Research Group and the Center for Impact Research. She is currently on the boards of the Health and Medicine Policy Research Group, Aging and Disability Advocates, the Chicago Coalition for End-of-Life Care, and the National Academy of Certified Care Managers, and was a Senior Associate for Research at the Park Ridge Center for the Study of Health, Faith, and Ethics (1996--2002).