Death, dying, and the ethics of care - with Iris Parra Jounou

About this episode

The episode explores the contributions of care ethics to understanding death, dying, and end-of-life care through a conversation with Iris Parra Jounou.

What can care ethics contribute to a better understanding of death, dying, and end-of-life care? What would a relational approach to assisted dying look like? And how should care be incorporated into public policy by local and national governments? These are some of the questions we explore in this episode, in conversation with Iris Parra Jounou . Iris is a researcher in care ethics and political philosophy, specialising in end-of-life care. She is an assistant professor in philosophy at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, in Catalonia, Spain, where she was awarded a PhD in 2025 for her thesis entitled ‘Dying in the Relaissance : End-of-Life Practices in a Caring Democracy’. Iris previously studied for bachelor’s degrees in both nursing and humanities, and for a Masters degree in contemporary thought and classical tradition. She is also a published poet and a musician. Iris has published a number of journal articles and book chapters on end-of-life care and assisted dying, and she also has the distinction of having translated key works by the leading American care ethicist Joan Tronto into Catalan. She a contributed a chapter on ‘a care ethics and aesthetics approach to…

People in this episode

Host: Martin Robb

Guest: Iris Parra Jounou

Topics covered

• care ethics
• end-of-life care
• assisted dying
• public policy
• death
• dying

Keywords

• care ethics
• end-of-life care
• assisted dying
• public policy
• Iris Parra Jounou
• Joan Tronto
• death
• dying

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Autonomous University of Barcelona

Books & works: Care Aesthetics and the Arts, Care Ethics and Public Health

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