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 ...

Topices in CME guide include 1) definitions; 2) withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment; 3) patient self-determination; 4) nonmaleficience and beneficence; 5) the relief of pain and suffering; 6) potential for abuse; 7) ...

This video raises and explores questions about the relationship between personal moral values and individual rights and societal rights.

Topics covered are: euthanasia and the right to die, AIDS and the health care professional, and patient rights. The program includes an interview with Dr. David H. Smith, a professor of medical ethics at the University ...

"This videotape gives medical caregivers, clergy, laypersons, and patients an in-depth understanding of advance directives. It features Henry S. Perkins, M. D., Associate Professor of medical Ethics at the University of ...

In collaboration with the University of North Carolina Center for Public Television, the Kenan Institute for Ethics at Duke University produced a two-part television series on The Struggle for Moral Leadership. The program ...

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 ...

Symposium held in Philadelphia, PA on March 14-15, 1997 to mark the 150th anniversay of "[t]wo historic events that would change forever the face of American medicine [that] occurred in Philadelphia in 1847 - the founding ...

Betty Ferrell; Center for Healthcare Ethics, St. Joseph Health System, Orange, CA

Betty Ferrell; Center for Healthcare Ethics, St. Joseph Health System, Orange, CA