Assisted Dying in European Writing and Visual Culture: Reciprocal Interactions between Law, Medicine and the Arts since 2000
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fundamental research project
Start Date
March 2023
End Date
February 2028
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ASSISTED
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Assisted Lab is supported by the European Research Council (ERC) Starting Grant 101040399, evaluated and selected by the ERC, financed by the Swiss State Secretariat for Education, Research and Innovation (SERI). The lab and its members have also benefited from other grants and affiliations.
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Assisted Lab is a research group based at University of St Gallen, Switzerland, with research affiliates in Canada, Northern Ireland, and the Netherlands, which investigates the cultural productions – including films, texts, and other media – that influence the legal and political processes around assisted dying.
Bringing together scholars, healthcare professionals, patients, and artists, our transnational, comparative project engages with the multilingual spaces and cultural contexts in which end-of-life accounts are elaborated. It disentangles how they affect law-making and, in turn, shows how a given legal context creates the possibilities of giving meaning to death.
As the archive is a continually evolving project, we are always keen to hear about new material that archive users feel should be included within it. While the body of material of which we are currently aware is extensive, we are conscious that, as legal, political and societal discussions in various countries evolve, there will inevitably be new cultural material produced, which merits consideration for the ways it is shaping medical, legal and political discourses of assisted dying. We therefore encourage users to suggest new content by clicking the 'Participate' button on our site.
Bringing together scholars, healthcare professionals, patients, and artists, our transnational, comparative project engages with the multilingual spaces and cultural contexts in which end-of-life accounts are elaborated. It disentangles how they affect law-making and, in turn, shows how a given legal context creates the possibilities of giving meaning to death.
As the archive is a continually evolving project, we are always keen to hear about new material that archive users feel should be included within it. While the body of material of which we are currently aware is extensive, we are conscious that, as legal, political and societal discussions in various countries evolve, there will inevitably be new cultural material produced, which merits consideration for the ways it is shaping medical, legal and political discourses of assisted dying. We therefore encourage users to suggest new content by clicking the 'Participate' button on our site.
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Anna Elsner
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Item type:Publication, Alices Reise in die Schweiz. Szenen aus dem Leben des Sterbehelfers Gustav Strom(2025-06-09)Type:digital resourceJournal:Assisted Lab's Living Archive of Assisted Dying - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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Item type:Publication, End-of-Life Stories Matter(2024-10-18); ; ; Session Description Assisted dying has been legal in Québec since 2015, in Canada since 2016, and its provision is bound up with contemporaneous understandings of the role and remit of palliative care. Led by four members of Assisted Lab – an academic, nonpartisan research lab concerned with patient stories of assisted dying – this interactive workshop will explore in detail the relationship between palliative care and assisted dying. With a focus on stories told by patients in blogs, films, and audio recordings, this workshop aims to clarify the synergies and tensions between palliative care and assisted dying provision in Canada. It will therefore begin with short presentations discussing international variants of this relationship, including in Switzerland, Belgium, the Netherlands, and France. The second part of the workshop will consist of discussions, in breakout groups, of fragments of patient stories that deal with the assisted dying-palliative care relationship in Canada and abroad. Each group will be led by a member of Assisted Lab (the ideal participant size is therefore 20 people). The workshop will conclude with each group presenting potentially generalizable principles contained in their respective patient story, and a general discussion of these principles. With a view to maximizing audience participation and debate, the final part of the workshop will seek out the responses of palliative care and other actors to the patient stories. Session Learning Objectives Sharpen narrative analysis skills to better understand the relationship between palliative care and assisted dying in Canada and in Québec Gain an understanding of different cultural models of that relationship, as well as the concrete historical circumstances and personalities that shaped it in different national contexts Develop communication skills related to discussing merits and drawbacks of medical assistance in dying with people who hold different opinionsType:conference contribution - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
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