selected scholarly activity
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books
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chapters
- Public Health Approaches to Dying, Death and Loss 2019
- The public health end-of-life care movement: History, principles, and styles of practice. 1-22. 2018
- Current social trends and challenges for the dying person. 11-27. 2017
- The importance of family carers in end-of-life care: A public health approach. 227-238. 2012
- Understanding the social and cultural dimensions of family caregiving. 21-36. 2008
- Resilient communities. 223-238. 2007
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conferences
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journal articles
- Reducing emergency hospital admissions: a population health complex intervention of an enhanced model of primary care and compassionate communities. British Journal of General Practice. 68:e803-e810. 2018
- What sources of bereavement support are perceived helpful by bereaved people and why? Empirical evidence for the compassionate communities approach. Palliative Medicine. 32:1378-1388. 2018
- The 2017 Taipei Declaration for Health-Promoting Palliative Care. Journal of Palliative Medicine. 21:581-582. 2018
- Compassionate communities: design and preliminary results of the experience of Vic (Barcelona, Spain) caring city. Annals of Palliative Medicine. 7:S32-S41. 2018
- New challenges for a newly emerging field. Annals of Palliative Medicine. 7:S1-S2. 2018
- Palliative care—the new essentials. Annals of Palliative Medicine. 7:S3-S14. 2018
- Palliative Curriculum Re-imagined: A Critical Evaluation of the UK Palliative Medicine Syllabus. Palliative Care and Social Practice. 11:117822421878037-117822421878037. 2018
- Unusual perceptions at the end of life: limitations to the diagnosis of hallucinations in palliative medicine. BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care. 7:238-246. 2017
- Religion in Public Health‐Care Institutions: U.S. and U.K. Perspectives. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion. 56:234-240. 2017
- Understanding the impact of a new public health approach to end-of-life care: a qualitative study of a community led intervention. The Lancet. 389:S88-S88. 2017
- The Nature of Contemporary Dying: Obsessions, Distortions, Challenges. Studies in Christian Ethics. 29:272-278. 2016
- The forgotten people in British public health: a national neglect of the dying, bereaved and caregivers. BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care. 6:153-159. 2016
- Palliative care reimagined: a needed shift. BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care. 6:21-26. 2016
- The impact of a new public health approach to end-of-life care: A systematic review. Palliative Medicine. 30:200-211. 2016
- Commentary: Public health approaches to palliative care – The progress so far. Progress in Palliative Care. 24:36-38. 2016
- INSPIRE (INvestigating Social and PractIcal suppoRts at the End of life): Pilot randomised trial of a community social and practical support intervention for adults with life-limiting illness. BMC Palliative Care. 14:65. 2015
- WA40 The good neighbour partnership: why do we need it? who is going to do it? how on earth are we going to evaluate it?. BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care. 5 Suppl 1:A13. 2015
- A Call to Action: An IWG Charter for a Public Health Approach to Dying, Death, and Loss. Omega: Journal of Death and Dying. 69:401-420. 2014
- Confronting mortality: faith and meaning across cultures. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences. 1330:58-74. 2014
- Is “Healthy Dying” a Paradox? Revisiting an Early Kastenbaum Challenge. Omega: Journal of Death and Dying. 70:43-55. 2014
- Compassionate communities: end-of-life care as everyone's responsibility. QJM - Monthly Journal of the Association of Physicians. 106:1071-1075. 2013
- Vigils for the Dying: Origin and Functions of a Persistent Tradition. Illness Crisis and Loss. 21:109-124. 2013
- Deathbed Visions from the Republic of Moldova: A Content Analysis of Family Observations. Omega: Journal of Death and Dying. 64:303-317. 2012
- Family care of the Dying in the republic of Moldova: A Qualitative Study. Journal of Palliative Care. 28:69-74. 2012
- On Prevalence Disparities in Recent Empirical studies of Deathbed Visions. Journal of Palliative Care. 28:113-115. 2012
- Tales of Lights and Shadows: The Mythology of the Afterlife. Journal of Contemporary Religion. 27:173-175. 2012
- Deathbed Visions from India: A Study of Family Observations in Northern Kerala. Omega: Journal of Death and Dying. 62:97-109. 2011
- Bereavement care for the non-bereaved. Bereavement Care. 29:21-25. 2010
- Using Critical Reflection to Support Health Promotion Goals in Palliative Care. Journal of Palliative Care. 26:295-302. 2010
- Dying old: and preferably alone? Agency, resistance and dissent at the end of life. International Journal of Ageing and Later Life. 4:5-21. 2009
- On dying and human suffering. Palliative Medicine. 23:388-397. 2009
- Home away from home? A case study of bedside objects in a hospice. International Journal of Palliative Nursing. 15:148-152. 2009
- Dementia and dying: The need for a systematic policy approach. Critical Social Policy. 29:146-157. 2009
- Dying as a social relationship: A sociological review of debates on the determination of death. Social Science and Medicine. 66:1533-1544. 2008
- Health-promoting palliative care: A practice example. Critical Public Health. 18:111-115. 2008
- Editorial. Health Sociology Review. 16:372-372. 2007
- Sharon R. Kaufman, And a Time to Die: How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life, University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 2005, 412 pp., hbk no price, pbk (2006) US$18.00 or £11.50, ISBN 978 0 226 42685 3.. Ageing and Society. 27:783-785. 2007
- The end of death in late modernity: An emerging public health challenge. Critical Public Health. 17:71-79. 2007
- Alvarez and the Divisive God. Mortality. 11:368-373. 2006
- BOOK REVIEW: Julie-Marie Strange.DEATH, GRIEF AND POVERTY IN BRITAIN, 1870-1914. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.. Victorian studies. 48:751-752. 2006
- Resolving conflict in end‐of‐life care. Medical Journal of Australia. 183:230-231. 2005
- Renal dialysis abatement: lessons from a social study. Palliative Medicine. 19:389-396. 2005
- Australian ways of death: A social and cultural history, 1840-1918. Victorian studies. 46:340-342. 2004
- Third‐wave public health? Compassion, community, and end‐of‐life care. Journal of Applied Psychoanalytic Studies. 1:313-323. 2004
- Complementary medicine: is it more acceptable in palliative care practice?. Medical Journal of Australia. 179:S46-S48. 2003
- Grief and loss: past, present and future. Medical Journal of Australia. 177:176-177. 2002
- The changing face of dying in Australia. Medical Journal of Australia. 175:508-510. 2001
- Shared near-death and related illness experiences: Steps on an unscheduled journey.. Journal of Near-Death Studies. 20. 2001
- Spirituality and palliative care: a model of needs. Palliative Medicine. 14:149-155. 2000
- The Unknown Country: Death in Australia, Britain and the USA. Contemporary Sociology. 28:327-327. 1999
- Lassie Come Home: A Study of ‘Lost Pet’ Notices. Omega: Journal of Death and Dying. 34:191-202. 1997
- Treatment decision‐making at the end of life: a survey of Australian doctors' attitudes towards patients' wishes and euthanasia. Medical Journal of Australia. 165:540-544. 1996
- Culture, Biology, and the Near-Death Experience: A Reappraisal. Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease. 181:148-156. 1993
- Good Days, Bad Days: The Self in Chronic Illness and Time.. Contemporary Sociology. 22:123-123. 1993
- Health locus of control beliefs and attitudes toward people with AIDS. Australian Psychologist. 27:172-175. 1992
- Australia's most pressing social problem: nursing vs non-nursing students' views. Nurse Education Today. 12:24-28. 1992
- Structure and Demographic Correlates of Attitudes Toward AIDS Sufferers. Journal of Psychology, The. 124:245-252. 1990
- The near-death experience as status passage. Social Science and Medicine. 31:933-939. 1990
- Farewells by the Dying: A Sociological Study. Omega: Journal of Death and Dying. 19:275-292. 1989
- The Stigma of Dying: New Findings on an Old Theme. Australian Social Work. 42:25-29. 1989
- ARE WE A DEATH-DENYING SOCIETY - A SOCIOLOGICAL REVIEW - REJOINDER. Social Science and Medicine. 18:723-723. 1984
- Are we a ‘death-denying’ society? A sociological review. Social Science and Medicine. 18:713-721. 1984
- The Sociology of Death and Dying: An Overview. Australian Social Work. 37:3-9. 1984