About Kristine Van Dinther
MICRO-BIO
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Kristine completed her degree in anthropology from La Trobe University in Melbourne and graduated with honours in 2003. Over the years, she has worked in various corporate roles and has published several articles as a freelance writer. In 2012, she...More
Kristine completed her degree in anthropology from La Trobe University in Melbourne and graduated with honours in 2003. Over the years, she has worked in various corporate roles and has published several articles as a freelance writer. In 2012, she published a book on philosophy and humanism. In 2014, Kristine took on the challenge of a PhD in anthropology which is currently only a month away from submission. In December 2015, she presented her paper; Death, Temporality and Moral Being at the Moral Horizons conference held at Melbourne University. Her PhD thesis - Moral Reasoning, Death and the Clinic: The Ethics of End of Life Decisions - is a work which engaged with family experiences to understand how both clincial enounters and dying trajectories affect decision making for end of life care. One of her findings was that death and suffering alter the usual parameters of moral reasoning. Her research contributes new knowledge to the field of both medical and moral anthropology and she hopes that her work will help health care workers better understand the vital role that families play. Not only in decision making, but in the patient's ability to experience a good death. Kristine is currently teaching Myth, Ritual and Religion at James Cook University and is preparing to submit her thesis.
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EXPERIENCE
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James Cook University
- PhD Candidate in Anthropology
- College of Arts, Society and Education
- February 2018 to Present
EDUCATION
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PhD Candidate
- James Cook University
- January 2014 to Present
In the process of submission of thesis.
Thesis title: Moral Reasoning, Death and the Clinic: The Ethics of End of Life Decisions
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Bachelor of Arts (Hons.)
- La Trobe University, Melbourne
- February 2000 to November 2003
Thesis title: The Image of the Witch in Early Modern Europe: Cultural construction, Unconscious fantasy and Women's agency.
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Diploma of Arts - Professional Writing and Editing
- Swinburne University of Technology
- February 1998 to December 1999
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