Death: How to Speak About the Unspeakable

Let’s Speak about the Unspeakable Using Anderson’s Speak in the Swedish Upper Secondary Classroom to discuss Sexism and Sexual Assault

How to talk to children about death.

Death is often a very difficult subject for parents to discuss with their children. It is natural for parents to want to protect their children from the pain and sadness that is associated with the topic of death. Many parents don't want to bring up such an unhappy subject with their children unless they absolutely have to. Unfortunately, a time will come when children must face the loss of a l...

To speak, or not to speak -- do clinicians speak about dying and death with geriatric patients at the end of life?

QUESTIONS UNDER STUDY Research describing healthcare professionals' conversations about issues of dying and death with chronically ill geriatric patients is rare, especially in Europe. The study reviews the willingness and difficulties of physicians and nurses to speak about dying and death with geriatric patients. METHOD Interview study with 14 physicians and 17 nurses. RESULTS The majorit...

The First Amendment Right to Speak About the Human Genome.

This article explores whether laws that restrict the communication of genetic test results may, under certain circumstances, violate the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. The focus is whether investigators have a right to return results from non-CLIA-certified laboratories in situations where a research participant requests the results and the investigator is willing to share them but i...

The Metaphors We Speak with Affect How We Think about Time and Space

A growing bulk of work indicates that we think about time in terms of space. Solving temporal ambiguities may involve adopting alternative spatial frames – namely time-moving vs. ego-moving perspectives. Previous work showed that people draw on either spatial perspective to disambiguate statements such as Next Wednesday ́s meeting has been moved forward 2 days (Boroditsky, 2000). The ambiguity l...