Theses defended this year

The National Platform for End-of-Life Research maintains a register of theses¹ in this field. This directory of theses includes 95 theses in progress and 56 theses defended since 2019.

In 2023, we have listed 13 defended theses, mostly in psychology (6), but also in law (2), sociology (2), philosophy (1), management sciences (1), language sciences (1), and information and communication sciences (1). They cover a wide range of subjects:

• The legal status of the human cadaver. A comparative study.
  Jordy BONY
• Communication and palliative care: the existential dimension as mediation
  Frédérique DRILLAUD
• Composing with death to come: An ethnography of hardship in EHPAD (2016-2021)
  Catherine MAURIZE
• From grieving to career change: how personal, grief-inducing events affect professional life
  Lidiia PLETNEVA
• Caregivers facing patients' end-of-life
  Alice BECHU
• Suffering and palliative care. Research on the relationship between representations and perceptions of meaning, temporality and the relationship to death in end-of-life care.
  Bruno KUETE
• Clinics of finitude: Between Clinical Narratives and Literary Narratives, Transferential functions and issues
  Margot ADRIAENS
• Getting to know palliative care volunteers better: exploring their psychosocial profile, studying their perceived well-being and its associated psychological factors
  Caroline UEBERSCHLAG VARAY
• Clinical study of home in an end-of-life situation at home. Thematic and textual analysis of 13 non-directive research interviews
  Boris LASSAGNE
• Place of ill peers in adolescents and young adults with cancer: a study of social support, negative life events and peer mourning processes (PAIRS-AJA)
  Jeff PHAN
• Euthanasia between ethics and law
  Georges GONZALES
• Death under the cloak. A sociological analysis of two associations campaigning for a chosen death in France
  Lauréna TOUPET
• The experience of family caregivers of people in the palliative phase of cancer: psychosocial issues and determinants of adjustment to (pre)mourning
  Marie HASDENTEUFEL

For the record, we had listed 16 theses defended in 2021 then 10 in 2022².

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1. These are so-called "science" theses, all disciplines combined, but this count does not take into account so-called "practice" theses (in medicine in particular)
2. These data may not be exhaustive, so please contact us to update them.