Ellen Badone

Overview

As a medical and cultural anthropologist, Ellen Badone’s longstanding research interests are in the social and cultural aspects of death and dying. Her first book, The Appointed Hour: Death, Worldview and Social Change in Brittany (California, 1989) examined aging, care for the elderly, and social and religious practices surrounding death in a region of rural France. More recently, she carried out a project interviewing family members of long-term care residents in Ontario, and long-term care staff, about the impact of COVID-19 on those living and working in long-term care homes. Currently, Badone is conducting a three-year SSHRC funded project to investigate how Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) is transforming the landscape of death and dying in Canada.

Affiliations

• Professor Emeritus, Religious Studies

Education

• BA, University of Toronto
• MA, University of Toronto
• PhD, University of California, Berkeley