On death, dying and end of life care:
Borgstrom, E. (2016) Social Death. QJM: International Journal of Medicine. Online First.
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Borgstrom, E., Morris, R., Wood, D., Cohn, S., and Barclay, S. (2016) Learning to care: the value for medical students of confronting and reflecting on palliative and end of life care. BMC Medical Education 16:306
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Borgstrom, E. (2015) Social death and English end of life care policy. Contemporary Social Science 10(3):272-283
Borgstrom, E. (2015) Planning for an (un)certain future: Choice in English end-of-life care. Current Sociology 60 (5):700-713
Borgstrom, E. and Walter, T. (2015) Choice and compassion at the end of life: a critical analysis of recent English policy discourse. Social Science and Medicine 135-137:99-105
Borgstrom, E., Barclay, S., and Cohn, S. (2013). Constructing denial as a disease object: accounts by medical students meeting dying patients. Sociology of Health and Illness 35(3):391-404
Borgstrom, E., Cohn, S., Barclay, S. (2010). Medical professionalism: Conflicting values for tomorrow's doctors. Journal of General Internal Medicine 25(12):1330-1336
On other social science topics:
Holman, D & Borgstrom, E. (2015) Applying social theory to understand health-related behaviours. BMJ Medical Humanities
Doctoral Dissertation (PhD thesis; awarded 2014), University of Cambridge, Planning for an uncertain death? An ethnographic exploration of choice and English end-of-life care.
Peer-Reviewed Journal Publications
Other Selected Publications
PUBLICATIONS
Book Chapters
Borgstrom, E. (2017) Social death and English end of life care policy. in Kralova, J & Walter, T. (eds.). Social Death: Questioning the life-death boundary. London: Routledge[based on article of same title]
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Borgstrom, E. (2016) National End-of-Life Care Policy in the English Context: The Problem and Solution to Death and Dying. in Foster, L & Woodthorpe, K. (eds). Death and Social Policy in Challenging Times. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, pp.35-52
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Editorials and Letters
Walter, T. & Borgstrom, E. (2015) Is the UK really the best place in the world to die? The Conversation
Borgstrom, E. (2015) Advance care planning: between tools and relational end-of-life care. BMJ Supportive and Palliative Care 5:216-217
Borgstrom, E. (2013) What’s in a name? From pathways to plans in end of life care. BMJ Aug 14;347:f4957. Letter invited based on extended rapid response
Selected Reports and Reviews
Borgstrom, E. (2016) Book Review: Living and Dying in the Contemporary World edited by Veena Das and Clara Han. Durham Centre for Medical Humanities Blog.
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Borgstrom, E. (2016) Book Review: Ordinary Medicine by Sharon Kaufman. Anthropology and Medicine.
Borgstrom, E. and Barclay, S. (2015) Designing for the Future of Palliative and End of Life Care: Drawing from Experiences. Report for Marie Curie based on three literature reviews.
Borgstrom, E. (2015) Book Review: Being Mortal by Atul Gawande. Anthropology and Medicine.
Borgstrom, E. (2014) Book Review: Taming Time, Timing Death edited by Dorthe Refslund Christensen and Rane Willerslev. Sociology of Health and Illness 36(7):1122-1123
Borgstrom, E. (2011) Play Review: Home Death by Nell Dunn. BMJ Medical Humanities 37(2):131-132
Borgstrom, E. (2010). Book Review: End of Life Choices: Consensus and Controversy by Fiona Randall and R.S. Downie. Palliative Medicine 24(8):841-842