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Compassion & Choices, with Final Exit Network
Speaker: Frances Norwood, PhD, Director of Research for the Inclusion Research Institute, a Washington, DC-based non-profit that supplies services to individuals with disabilities and other special needs.
Topic: Dr. Norwood will discuss her book, “The Maintenance of Life: Preventing Social Death Through Euthanasia Talk and End-of-Life Care—Lessons from The Netherlands”
Dr. Norwood is expert on health conditions of the aged in the Netherlands, which will be the basis of her talk.
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Dr. Norwood’s doctorate in medical anthropology is from the University of California, San Francisco and Berkeley. Her research interests are long term and end-of-life health policy; disability; innovative health care solutions; quality improvement; spirituality and health; vulnerable populations; health care reform; critical medical anthropology; qualitative and quantitative methodologies.
Tea and coffee will be served. Please bring bakery items to share. Parking is on the street and usually there is plenty of space nearby. Any questions? Call Elspeth Wheeler, (410) 243-5331.