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 ...

A studio audience composed of health care officials, physicians, law scholars, and interested laypersons discusses a pregnant woman's right to behave as she wishes on the television program Express (San Francisco KQED). ...

Discussion of treatment decisions concerning four different patients by those involved in the cases provide insights for the viewer. The patient, the health care teams, and the patient's families are represented. Three ...

Dr. Edmund P. Pellegrino focuses on the dual obligation of the physician to the medical profession and to the patients. In a time of change in health care, he says that trust cannot be enforced nor can care become a ...

Three situations are depicted in which the potential exists for older persons to lose control over decisions that are important for their later years. The scenarios occur in the hospital, at home, and at a beach house. ...

The Catholic Health Associations's Task Force on Health Care for the Poor offers, via voice-over slides and photographs, their position on the obligation to provide increased health care for all who are not receiving it ...

"Tibetan Medicine was filmed at the Tibetan Medical Center established in exile by the Dalai Lama in the Indian Himalayas-- the only remaining center for Tibetan Medicine. Ama Lopsang Dolma, Tibet's first woman doctor, ...

Filmed at various community meetings, Oregon citizens debate and participate in planning health policy decisions for their state, basing discussions on their understanding that unlimited health costs will not be affordable. ...

The film depicts two ``allowing to die'' situations, and goes on to urge everyone to consider and to prepare living wills and to name surrogates to make health care decision. A small seven page booklet accompanies this ...