Contemporary end-of-life care is continually evolving since the emergence of palliative care in the
1960s. Various new actors, institutions, and discourses are entering the scene and remaking the field
in unexpected ways. At the same time, scholars are paying increased attention to myriad ways in
which end-of-life care is enacted, both within and outside of settings more typically associated with
health care. Policy makers too are increasingly motivated to pay greater attention to end-of-life care
due to the aging of the population and increased public interest. For this session, we solicit papers
that speak to the various contemporary experiences, changes, conflicts, and successes in the practice
of end-of-life care in Canada and elsewhere, in clinical/hospital or other settings. While we welcome
theoretical papers, we are primarily interested in papers that build upon empirical data that can make
a unique contribution to the social study of end-of-life care. The goal of the session is to have a
productive interdisciplinary discussion on end-of-life care; as such, we welcome contributions not
only from sociology but also from other social and health sciences disciplines such as nursing,
education, bioethics, anthropology, geography, and others.