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 ...

Host Willard Gaylin says that we are living during a revolution in biomedical technology which has made prolongation of life possible when previously death would have occurred. Others who appear include Joseph Fletcher, ...

William Bartholome, MD, MTS, a pediatrician and bioethicist, speaks about his experiences after living with a terminal diagnosis for the past five years. This lecture is the Hixon Hour lecture that he delivered at the ...

Speaking as the concluding lecturer at the March 1995 ?How We Die Conference? (based on Sherwin B. Nuland?s book of the same title), noted physician-ethicist William G. Bartholome, M.D., M.T.S., shares reflections on the ...

This Trainer's Guide includes 1 looseleaf binder, 2 color videocassettes, and 4 computer diskettes. The videos are: "EPEC Plenaries 1, 3, and 4" and "EPEC Modules 1-12 Trigger Tape." Topics covered include: terminal care, ...

Topics covered in the CME study guide are: 1) Definitions and Distinctions of withholding/withdrawing life sustaining treatment, pallative treatment that may hasten death, euthanasia, and assisted suicide; 2) an ethical ...

"It seems almost flippant to describe it that way, but it is a subject that is still taboo in America. How we deal with the end of life is something that we could have a lot of control over but don't. Tonight Nightline ...

Developed by the American Association for Retired People (AARP)'s Special Projects Section in cooperation with the American Association of Homes for the Aging's Commission on Ethics this program is intended for the staff ...

"Dr. Werner Ernst (James Spader) is an over-worked intern who only wants the best for his elderly, comatose patient -- until he falls for the ailing man's beautiful daughter Felicia (Kyra Sedgwick). The seductive Felicia ...