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SCHOOL OF HISTORY AND PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
RESEARCH SEMINAR
SEMESTER TWO 2022
MONDAY 24th OCTOBER 2022
FROM 5:30PM

Location:       F23 Michael Spence Building, Level 5, Room 501
Zoom:   https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/85650294167

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KATE E. LYNCH (PhD)
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Department of Philosophy and Charles Perkins 
Centre, University of Sydney.

CAUSE OF DEATH: HISTORICAL AND PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVES OF DEATH CERTIFICATION

Abstract: Assigning a cause of death is required on death certificates in every 
UN member state. Cause of death information informs national and global 
mortality trends, which influences research, policy, and public health 
initiatives. Death certification procedures for documenting cause(s) of death 
first emerged in the context of infectious disease pandemics. They have since 
been refined with ongoing revisions to the World Health Organisation’s 
International Classification of Disease, now in its 11th edition (ICD-11). This 
talk explores the history of death certification and its legacy in current 
practice. I suggest that 1) the changing nature of death and disease, and 2) 
increasing causal knowledge about health and disease mechanisms, are not 
adequately reflected in current WHO guidelines and corresponding medical 
practice.

Bio: Kate is post-doctoral research fellow in the Department of Philosophy, 
University of Sydney. She has background working as both a philosopher and 
biologist. Her work uses a combination of experimental approaches philosophical 
theory to understand conceptual issues intersecting the two fields. Kate is 
involved in multiple collaborative projects with ecologists, geneticists, 
ethologists, psychologists, medical practitioners and philosophers.



WHEN:  MONDAY 24TH OCTOBER 2022
START: 5.30PM
Location:        F23 Michael Spence Building, Level 1, Room 501
Zoom:   [http:// https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/85650294167]http:// 
https://uni-sydney.zoom.us/j/85650294167

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