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 Participant's Guide is 1 looseleaf binder. Topics covered include: terminal care, advance directives, passive euthanasia, medical futility, outcome and process assessment, drug therapy for pain control, palliative ...

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 ...

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 ...

"In 1994, when their 7-year-old son, Nicholas, was killed during a botched car-jacking, Reg and Maggie Green galvanized all of Italy--and the world--by donating Nicholas's organs to seven desperately sick Italians, becoming ...

Through this documentary filmed in the Netherlands (in Dutch with English subtitles) we are permitted to come to know Antoinette and Cees de Joode and their doctor Dr. Van Oijen, a family practitioner, as they discuss Cees' ...

Henry Turner is a successful but ruthless New York lawyer who needs to win at any cost, even at the expense of his wife and daughter. But a single gunshot brings Henry s fast-track rise to a dead stop, leaving him incapacitated ...

Hilary O Neil (Julia Roberts) is an attractive, outgoing young woman whose existence is cramped by few opportunities, little money and a series of failed relationships. She is looking for a different kind of life, a life ...

This program tells the story of Francois and Leslie Paulette of Alberta, Canada who decided to let their newborn son K'aila die naturally from liver disease [bilary artresia or giant-cell hepatitis] rather than have him ...