Category Archives: death and dying

A rather large wrap of recent Croakey articles: public health, health reform, media coverage of health and more

January 11, 2012 – 10:25 am

As previously mentioned, Croakey readers are welcome to sign up for (rather irregular) summaries of posts. If you’d like to join the mailing list, please send your email or leave it below. Here is the latest compilation, covering from 6 October – December 23, 2011. The latest readership figures are now also available, showing that [...]

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Some wide-ranging conversations on death and dying

December 4, 2011 – 5:46 pm

In Canada, The Globe and Mail has recently published a detailed series on death and dying, “Navigating life and death in 21st century critical care”. In Australia, The Conversation has recently published a series, “Talking about death and dying”. Thanks to Reema Rattan for providing this summary of the series: We make all kinds of [...]

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