Publications

Dr. Celia Spoden

 

Monograph

  • 2015 Disposing of death. Individual meanings and social realities of living wills in Japan. Bielefeld: transcript.

 

Book chapter

  • 2017. "Chapter 12. Well-being and decision-making towards the end of life: Living Wills in Japan". In: Holthus, Barbara; Manzenreiter, Wolfram (eds.): Life Course, Happiness and Well-being in Japan. New York: Routledge, 221-237.
  • 2017. "Dai 11 shô. Songen aru shi? Nihon ni okeru kanja no jizen shijisho no kojinteki kaishaku to shakaiteki genjitsu". [Chapter 11. Dignified dying? Individual interpretations and social realities of living wills in Japan]. Translated by Takahata Yuto. In: Kato, Yasushi (ed.): Songen-gainen no dainamizumu. Tetsugaku・ôyôrinrigakuronshû.[The dynamics of the concept of dignity. Collection of essays in philosophy and applied ethics]. Tokyo: Hosei University Press, 299-326.

 

Essays

  • 2015. "Songen aru shi? Nihon ni okeru kanja no jizen shijisho no kojinteki kaishaku to shakaiteki gen-jitsu". [Dignified dying? Individual interpretations and social realities of advance directives in Japan]. Translated by Takahata Yuto. Doitsu ôyôrinrigaku kenkyû.[Japanese Yearbook of Science and Ethics] Vol. 5: 106-123.
  • 2012. "The significance of the stranger for the narrative construction of identity". Minikomi 82 - Focus on Okinawa, 27-32.
  • 2009. "Narrative Identity Constructions - An Example from Okinawa". Publication series of the Japanese-German Center Berlin. Second German-Japanese-Korean Scholarship Seminar 58: 193-199.

 

Lectures and conferences (selection)

  • 08/2017. Avoiding conflicts at the deathbed: A new awareness of dying and of living wills in Japan
    Presentation at the panel "Attitudes toward Death, Dying and Funerary Customs in Japan - Past, Present and Future", organized together with Dorothea Mladenova and Juljan Biontino, EAJS Conference in Lisbon, Portugal
  • 03/2017. Commentary on Session C: Ontology and Human-Machine Interaction: The Case of ALS and Cyborg-type Robot HAL
    at the Workshop: "Humans & Machines in Medical Contexts: Case Studies from Japan", German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) in Tokyo, Japan
  • 09/2016. Differing approaches to terminal care for people with dementia in a Japanese and a German nursing home
    The 2nd European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS) Conferences in Japan, Kobe University
  • 08/2015. Learning to live on: Strategies for dealing with chronic illness. Case studies from Japan
    Ethnology Section, 16th German-speaking Japanese Studies Day at the Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
  • 04/2014. Conceptions of a meaningful life and "good" death in end of life decision-making
    International Workshop "Deciphering the Social DNA of Happiness: Life Course Perspectives from Japan", University of Vienna, Austria
  • 06/2011. Planning with the Unplannable - From Project Idea to Interview
    Workshop "Field Research in Japan - Reports from Practice", BA-Plus Program, Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
  • 11/2010. Self-determined end of life? On the significance of decision-making for the chronically ill
    Sociology and Social Anthropology Section, Annual Conference of the Association for Social Science Research on Japan (VSJF), Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
  • 10/2010 Who decides? A case study on living wills and decision-making in Japan
    Institute of History, Ethics and Philosophy of Medicine, University of Ulm
  • 10/2009. Euthanasia and living wills as an expression of a crisis of confidence? Biomedicine and the social practice of dealing with dying
    Lecture with Uwe Krähnke "Biomedicine - social interpretation and social practice", Evangelisches Studienwerk e.V. Villigst, Schwerte
  • 09/2009. On the tense relationship between medical care and patient autonomy using the example of living wills
    Conference on "Feminist ethics with a focus on the concept of human dignity or between care and autonomy" Nanzan University in Nagoya, Japan
  • 02/2009 Presentation of the doctoral topic at the winter school "Responsibility - a useful illusion?" Marsilius Kolleg, Excellence Initiative of the Federal and State Governments, Ruprecht-Karls-University Heidelberg