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Mara Buchbinder, PhD, associate professor in the Department of Social Medicine, is the author of a new book, Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America, which will be published in May by the University of California Press.<\/p>\n

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https:\/\/news.unchealthcare.org\/2021\/04\/new-book-by-mara-buchbinder-to-be-published-in-may\/<\/a><\/p>\n

Here\u2019s how the publisher describes the book in a press release:<\/p>\n

\u201cScripting Death<\/em> chronicles two years of ethnographic research documenting the implementation of Vermont\u2019s 2013 Patient Choice and Control at End of Life Act. Author Mara Buchbinder weaves together stories collected from patients, caregivers, health care providers, activists, and legislators to illustrate how they navigate aid-in-dying as a new medical frontier in the aftermath of legalization. Scripting Death explains how medical aid-in-dying works, what motivates people to pursue it, and ultimately, why upholding the \u201cright to die\u201d is very different from ensuring access to this life-ending procedure. This unprecedented, in-depth account uses the case of assisted death as an entry point into ongoing cultural conversations about the changing landscape of death and dying in the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n

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