Fully funded PhD position for project on care/technologies/end of life (m/w/d)
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Fully funded PhD position for project on care/technologies/end of life (m/w/d)
We are looking for a PhD candidate who is intrigued by the complex intersections between care, technologies and end of life. The PhD position is part of the research project
“(Im-)possibilities of letting life end. An ethnography of medical specialist practices”.
The overall project provides an ethnography of the ways in which in the clinical practices of medical specialties non-life prolonging treatment and care are made possible. It consists of two case studies each focusing on one medical speciality in a clinical setting in Switzerland. One case study will be carried out by the principal investigator and one by the selected PhD researcher.
The case studies might trace, for instance, how in the mundane goings-on of providing health care to patients with life-limiting, -threatening or chronic diseases in a hospital “conservative management”, “supportive treatment”, or “palliative care” are made thinkable, discussed and implemented. The case studies might also follow the activities that physicians undertake to increase possibilities for providing non-life prolonging treatment and care in the structures they are embedded in (e.g. writing guidelines, producing scientific evidence, teaching specialist palliative care courses). Or they might zoom in on the scripts that are embedded in life-prolonging technologies, treatment protocols, in scores and indicators that are used in clinical practice. More generally, the project seeks to articulate emergences of novel forms of “good” medical care at the beginning of the 21st century.
The PhD candidate is expected to
- carry out a case study that investigates the ways in which non-life prolonging treatment and care are made possible in one specific medical specialty (that is neither paediatrics nor oncology)
- collect qualitative data in Switzerland
- complete a dissertation for a PhD degree at the University of St.Gallen
- present research outputs at conferences
- organize a workshop with the PI