The Art of Dying with Dr. Lydia Dugdale

Dr. Lydia Dugdale joins Aaron to discuss her book—The Lost Art of Dying—and the place of death and dying in our culture.

Dr. Lydia Dugdale, MD is a New York City internal medicine primary care doctor and medical ethicist. She is Associate Professor of Medicine and Director of the Center for Clinical Medical Ethics at Columbia University. Prior to her 2019 move to Columbia, she was the Associate Director of the Program for Biomedical Ethics and founding Co-Director of the Program for Medicine, Spirituality, and Religion at Yale School of Medicine. In addition to her book, she edited Dying in the Twenty-First Century, a volume that articulates a bioethical framework for a contemporary art of dying.

The Lost Art of Dying: Reviving Forgotten Wisdom

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