{"656178":{"#nid":"656178","#data":{"type":"event","title":"PhD Proposal by Aubrey Incorvaia","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EManifestations of the Positive Death Movement in America:\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nMedical Aid In Dying, Voluntarily Stopping Eating \u0026amp; Drinking, and End-Of-Life Doulas\u003C\/strong\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nAubrey DeVeny Incorvaia\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nSchool of Public Policy \u0026ndash; Georgia Institute of Technology\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDissertation Abstract\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nWestern society is in an era of death awareness, its most recent salience: A Positive Death\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nMovement. This dissertation examines manifestations of the movement, framing them as direct,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nindirect, and induced effects of public policy. Policies have intended consequences, off-target\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\neffects, as well as more distant, rippling impacts on society at-large. The empirical research\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nherein investigates these dimensions of policy\u0026rsquo;s influence, leveraging an assortment of\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\ntheoretical lenses, which originate from policy design, social psychology, and sociology.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nMethods incorporate both qualitative and quantitative approaches, tools, and techniques.\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nChapter one presents the history of American death culture and overviews the movement for\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\ndeath positivity and its scholarship. Chapter two shows that implementation of Medical Aid in\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nDying (MAID) policy reduces self-harm and undetermined intent death rates for those with\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\ncancer. Specifically, use of regression analysis to generate a difference-in-differences estimation\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nindicates that implementation of MAID results in a statistically significant 20 percent reduction\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nin self-harm and undetermined intent cancer death rates, even when controlling for individual\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nand macro-level risk factors. Chapter three examines a church\u0026rsquo;s response to Voluntarily\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nStopping Eating and Drinking, revealing that a church community may be a source of legitimacy\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nand support for this end-of-life choice to hasten death in the face of terminal illness. A case study\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nof one southern Anabaptist congregation employs a focus group and one-on-one interviews\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nduring which study participants reported their affirmation of VSED, but professed uncertain and\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nconditional involvement in respite care provision post VSED initiation. Responses varied widely\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nto faith-based justifications for the practice. Chapter four uses analytic autoethnography to\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nelucidate a new role arising within the system of deathcare, End-of-Life Doulas (EOLDs). Two\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nEOLD training programs framed their education in hallmark terms of the movement and are\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nseeking to professionalize the role through the use of functionalist \/ trait \u0026ndash; oriented documents,\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nan approach aligned with a \u0026lsquo;sociology of professions\u0026rsquo; framework. Chapter five concludes the\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\ndissertation by summarizing results and considering opportunities for future research, while also\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nacknowledging the necessity of addressing ongoing impacts of the coronavirus pandemic and the\u003Cbr \/\u003E\r\nracial reckoning currently underway in the United States.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Manifestations of the Positive Death Movement in America: Medical Aid In Dying, Voluntarily Stopping Eating \u0026 Drinking, and End-Of-Life Doulas\u0022"}],"uid":"27707","created_gmt":"2022-03-09 19:30:23","changed_gmt":"2022-03-10 17:24:02","author":"Tatianna Richardson","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","field_event_time":{"event_time_start":"2022-04-01T11:00:00-04:00","event_time_end":"2022-04-01T13:00:00-04:00","event_time_end_last":"2022-04-01T13:00:00-04:00","gmt_time_start":"2022-04-01 15:00:00","gmt_time_end":"2022-04-01 17:00:00","gmt_time_end_last":"2022-04-01 17:00:00","rrule":null,"timezone":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"221981","name":"Graduate Studies"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[{"id":"102851","name":"Phd proposal"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[{"id":"1788","name":"Other\/Miscellaneous"}],"invited_audience":[{"id":"78761","name":"Faculty\/Staff"},{"id":"78771","name":"Public"},{"id":"78751","name":"Undergraduate students"}],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}