Category / End of Life Ethics
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Terri Schiavo Lives On
Terri Schiavo Lives On
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Rosemary Flanigan Lecture Presents “The Ethics of Spectacle” with Karla Holloway
Duke University Professor Karla Holloway, PhD, explored how medical information – typically seen as intimate and private – is forced into the public sphere.
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Resuscitating the Dead Donor Rule
“Can the Dead Donor Rule be Resuscitated?” That’s the title of an editorial in the August 2011 issue of The American Journal of Bioethics Editorial, co-authored by David Magnus, PhD, Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics.
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Respecting the Disabled at End of Life
Where do we stand when it comes to people with disabilities and end of life issues?
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Removing Kidneys Before Death
Should we remove kidneys from a dying person before they are dead?
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Rationing Care to Elderly and Terminal Patients
Harvey Tettlebaum, partner with the Husch Blackwell Law Firm, and Sandy Silva, program associate at the Center for Practical Bioethics, address whether rationing care to elderly and terminal patients is ethically or legally appropriate under any circumstances. (Nov. 29, 2011)
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Organ Donations and Presumed Consent
Should presumed consent be part of advance care planning?
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Organ Donation: The Ethics of First Person Consent
There are more people who need organs than there are organs available.
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National Healthcare Decisions Day
April 16 is National Healthcare Decisions Day.
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Medical Futility: Wrong Medicine?
Lawrence Schneiderman, professor emeritus at the University of California at San Diego and co-author of a new book, Wrong Medicine – Doctors, Patients and Futile Treatment, discusses new approaches to the concept of medical futility.
