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 ...

Part I: Patient and Family Education. The narrator suggests that a health care ethics committee can function as a "health care guide service." Three questions about ethics committees are addressed in this section of the ...

"Through DNA experimentation, Dr. Moreau has upset the balance of nature. On a remote island in the South Pacific, Dr. Moreau has used the key of science to unlock the gates of hell... Val Kilmer (Heat, Batman Forever, ...

"If These Walls Could Talk is a powerful, intimate portrait of how times and freedoms have changed. It will shock you. It will surprise you. And no matter where you stand on the issue, it will force you to think again. ...

The story of Genie, a child raised in isolation due to abuse within her family, who was discovered in 1970 in California at the chronological age of 13. Genie's treatment raises questions about the boundaries between ...

"Twenty-five years ago Leilani Muir was informed she would never be able to conceive a child. Unbeknowst to her, at the age of fourteen, she had already been sexually sterilized, by an Act of the Alberta government. The ...

When pregnant with her, filmmaker Judith Helfand's mother took the synthetic hormone diethylstilbestrol (DES) to prevent miscarriage and ensure a healthy baby. Born in 1963, twenty-five years later Ms. Helfand was diagnosed ...

Should anencephalic infants serve as organ donors? Just as the title indicates, this program explores the question of whether parents of infants born with anencephaly ought to be allowed to donate their infant's vital ...

"Talking with patients about the dying process and the use of life-sustaining technology can be emotionally challenging for all concerned. Helping patients to participate in planning for future health care crises, including ...