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Medical Choices and Pastoral Guidance (October 29, 1991)
(1991-10-29)
A workshop conference about the Patient Self Determination Act, living wills, and patient decision making and the role of health personnel was taped by Georgetown University's Center for Clinical Bioethics, which sponsored ...
Who Should Survive? (1971)
(1971-09-09)
Eunice Kennedy Shriver, Executive Vice President of the Joseph P. Kennedy Jr. Foundation, opens the film by describing, along with a simulated depiction, a birthing scene of a Down's Syndrome infant with duodenal atresia ...
Bertha (1973)
(1973)
This 1973 classic bioethics film in bioethics education discusses the rights of the retarded. Bertha, a mildly retarded young woman (not Down's Syndrome), was given an IUD at age 15, and requests its removal when she is ...
Balancing Society's Mandates: IRB Review Criteria (1986)
(1986)
The film depicts an institutional review board (IRB) meeting discussing typical cases and problems. Dr. Edmund D. Pellegrino explains review board criteria.
Intensive Care (1996)
(1996-08-09)
This one hour program focuses on a unique team of ethicists at the University of Chicago Medical Center. The program is a four-part story that takes the viewer behind the scenes to the bedside to examine the state of the ...
Discussions in Bioethics (1986)
(1986)
The videocassette is a varied teaching aide with eight open ended dramatizations to stimulate discussion about ethical dilemmas which are based on actual cases. They include: The Old Person's Friend: portrays in a hospital ...
America's Good Health, but at What Cost (1986)
(1986-05)
Scenes of a meeting held at the Center For Bioethics at the University of Wisconsin in May 1986 are presented with panel participants Richard Lamm, former Governor of Colorado; Mark Siegler, director of the Center for ...
Difficult Decisions: When a Loved One Approaches Death (2000)
(2000)
"When a loved one's fate lies in another's hands, the decisions can be overwhelming. This program, hosted by NewsHour's Ray Suarez, follows two families as they grapple with life-and- death decisions inside an ICU. A ...
The Archdiocese of Washington Presents: The Ends of Life: Legal, Ethical, & Spiritual Dimensions
(1992-02-23)
Several Catholic theologians, physicians, lawyers, and ethicists discuss topics at the "Ends of Life." Rev. Russell Smith; John Collins Harvey, M.D.; William May, Ph.D.; Kevin O'Rourke, Ph.D.; Basile Oclo, J.D.; Sheperdson ...
Medical Ethics: The Catholic Perspective (2007)
(2007)
"Medical Ethics: The Catholic Perspective is a series of ten 25-minute programs introduced by Dr. Daniel Sulmasy and designed to provide the Catholic Church's position on important medical ethics issues. Msgr. Robert Thelen ...