About the Event
In the next installment of the Health & Humanities Research Seminar series, Dagoberto Cortez, Ph.D., presents “Prognosticating Death: How Patients and Doctors Discuss the End of Life.”
Treating terminally ill cancer patients is medically challenging, but it is also fraught with difficult interactions between oncologists and their patients. Sharing research based primarily on ethnographic fieldwork, sociologist Dagoberto Cortez explores how oncologists talk with their patients about death and dying.
Cortez is an assistant professor in the UT-Austin Department of Sociology who researches patient-doctor interactions, death and dying, health inequality, and end-of-life care
The Health and Humanities Research Seminar is sponsored by: The Humanities Institute, The College of Liberal Arts through the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities #1, Greg Hemphill, M.D. and Brenda B. Hemphill, Tom Vetter, M.D. and Imelda Vetter, and friends and supporters of the Humanities Institute.