Communication, Medicine and Ethics Conference

The COMET conference aims to bring together scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds involving various healthcare specialties and the human and social sciences. A special emphasis is on the dissemination of ongoing research in language/discourse/communication studies in relation to healthcare education, patient participation and professional ethics.

Lola Marinato and Giuditta Caliendo presented a talk entitled "Metaphors of perinatal loss: A communicative tool to share invisible grief". The abstract is available in the conference booklet.