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Sponsored by the Paul and Marie Castelfranco Lecture series
Death with Dignity in the United States is a national health, political, and social movement. This presentation argues that it is also advancing a specific moral norm that is “gentrifying death” - even as the population is aging and browning.
Dr. Terri Laws employs theories and methods from the social sciences to investigate questions in race, religion, and society with healthcare and health inequities as her institutional foci. She was a member of the health disparities faculty for ReBUILDetroit, a National Institutes of Health initiative that seeks to attract undergraduate students from underrepresented communities to biomedical careers. She currently serves as co-chair of the Bioethics and Religion Unit of the American Academy of Religion and is a member of the Society for the Study of Black Religion.