Study group on End of Life: Sociological and anthropological perspectives
Participants work in the fields of Anthropology, Law, Social science and Humanities from
different academic institutions around Israel.
The discussions focus on ethical, cultural, historial, legal, and other aspects associated with end-of-life.
► Presentation of the participants and their Research proposals.
► Discussion of text: Aries, P. (1974) Western Attitudes toward Death. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins, University Press.
► Discussion of text: Bauman, Z. (1992) Mortality, Immortality and Other Life Strategies. California: Stanford University Press.
► Joint discussion meeting for both groups: The decomposition of corpses and corpus in the literary work of S. Y. Agnon.
Discussion of text: Agnon, S.Y.(1962) Ha'Esh Ve'Haezim (The fire and the woods). Tel Aviv and Jerusalem: Shoken Press.
► The time of death in rabbinical legends by Prof. Arye Edrei.
► Spiritual death in fairy tales by Dr. Ravit Raufman; Suicide in Israel or Israeli Suicide: Anthropological Aspects of a Glocal
Dilemma by Prof. Haim Hazan and Dr. Raquel Romberg.
► The wish of the dead by Prof. Yael Hashiloni Dolev, Dr. Daphna Hacker and Dr. Hagai Boas; On Truth, Trust and Technology:
The Israeli debate Over Brain Death by Dr. Sky Gross and Prof. Shai Lavi.
► Death in the digital age by Dr. Erez Cohen; Brain death, organ donation and the political culture of end-of-life in Israel by
Dr. Hagai Boas.
► Dys-appearing and Disappearing Bodies: On the Relation between Death and Pain by Dr. Michal Pagis; If they found a cure
to your condition, would you take it? By Dr. Adi Finkelstein and Kaitlin Kimmel; The construction of grievable death by Tal Morse.
► How do you talk about it: talking about medical care in advanced old age by Dr. Carmel Shalev
