{"658700":{"#nid":"658700","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Incorvaia Publishes Article on Protestantism, Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/people\/person\/aubrey-incorvaia\u0022\u003EAubrey DeVeny Incorvaia\u003C\/a\u003E, a recent Ph.D. graduate of the School of Public Policy, published an \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/journals.sagepub.com\/doi\/10.1177\/26323524221101074\u0022\u003Earticle\u003C\/a\u003E in \u003Cem\u003EPalliative Care and Social Practice\u003C\/em\u003E. The piece, titled \u0026ldquo;Biathanatos Revisited: Anabaptist Perspectives on Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking in the Face of Terminal Illness,\u0026rdquo; is the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/spp.gatech.edu\/news\/item\/657964\/incorvaia-publishes-article-history-american-death-culture\u0022\u003Esecond published article\u003C\/a\u003E based off of her thesis focused on the positive death movement, which she successfully defended in Spring 2022.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIn the article, Incorvaia discusses how voluntarily stopping eating and drinking \u0026mdash; in this case, used to hasten death in the face of terminal illness \u0026mdash; might be received by Christian Protestants. She posits that the group would be open to the practice because of their more liberal political leanings and potential Christian-based justifications for the practice.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EIncorvaia tests this theory with a case study of one Anabaptist congregation and finds that the participants were in favor of voluntarily stopping eating and drinking, though they differed in their responses to faith-based justifications for it.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;The church\u0026rsquo;s doctrinal context did not forbid the behavior; the community focused on nonjudgment and acceptance of their (imagined) intimate peer; and the legality of the choice was clear, up to a point,\u0026rdquo; Incorvaia writes. \u0026ldquo;Future researchers should consider executing comparative case studies to test this framework and advance its elaboration.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERead the full article at \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/26323524221101074\u0022\u003Ehttps:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/26323524221101074\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EThe article was published in \u0026quot;Palliative Care and Social Practice.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"The article was published in \u0022Palliative Care and Social Practice.\u0022"}],"uid":"34946","created_gmt":"2022-06-03 18:43:13","changed_gmt":"2022-06-03 18:43:32","author":"gwyner3","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2022-06-03T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2022-06-03T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"652424":{"id":"652424","type":"image","title":"Aubrey Incorvaia","body":null,"created":"1635969153","gmt_created":"2021-11-03 19:52:33","changed":"1635969153","gmt_changed":"2021-11-03 19:52:33","alt":"Headshot of Aubrey Incorvaia.","file":{"fid":"247524","name":"Aubrey Incorvaia.jpeg","image_path":"\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Aubrey%20Incorvaia.jpeg","image_full_path":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/\/sites\/default\/files\/images\/Aubrey%20Incorvaia.jpeg","mime":"image\/jpeg","size":772346,"path_740":"http:\/\/www.tlwarc.hg.gatech.edu\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/740xx_scale\/public\/images\/Aubrey%20Incorvaia.jpeg?itok=Ic38uow9"}}},"media_ids":["652424"],"groups":[{"id":"648414","name":"_OLD: Ivan Allen College \u0022The Buzz\u0022"},{"id":"1289","name":"School of Public Policy"}],"categories":[],"keywords":[],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003E\u003Ca href=\u0022mailto:gwyner3@gatech.edu\u0022\u003EGrace Wyner\u003C\/a\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECommunications Officer\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ESchool of Public Policy | Sam Nunn School of International Affairs\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}