Mara Buchbinder
Cognoscenti contributor
Mara Buchbinder is a medical anthropologist and associate professor of social medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is the author of "Scripting Death: Stories of Assisted Dying in America" (University Of California Press, May 2021).
Recently published
'The Bitter Comes With The Sweet': Without Death, There Is No Life
Mara Buchbinder, a medical anthropologist, writes about death, and our lack of control over its inevitability. She's been thinking about her own mortality recently, after reading Natalie Babbitt’s "Tuck Everlasting,”...