Department: Enfermería

Area: Nursing

Research group: Cuidados al final de la vida (En-of-life care) Tanatología

Email: almigar@ull.es

Research field: Ciencias de la Salud

Doctor by the Universidad de La Laguna with the thesis El significado de perder un hijo la construcción discursiva del duelo de padres y madres 2010. Supervised by Dr. Fernando Estévez González.

Alfonso M. García Hernández is Senior lecturer of Nursing Theory at the Universidad of La Laguna (Tenerife, Spain). He graduated in Nursing (1983) and in Anthropology (2000). He obtained his PhD in Anthropology from the University of La Laguna. His doctoral thesis is the first study in Canary Islands devoted to narratives of parent’s grief and its meanings. His main interests in research are end-of-life care, dying, grief and bereavement.