International Health Humanities Network Membership

Cori Hill Heymann is an anthropologist and death educator. Her research includes an ethnographic study of the ‘Death Doula’ culture in the United States. The narrative exchange and gift of care giving by doulas is one driver for their utilization at the end-of-life. Cori also works full time in the managed healthcare industry (20 years) and continues to observe how private healthcare plans are (or are not) underwritten to support end-of-life care, as well as how medical management programs may influence end-of-life treatment.