The emphasis in this video program and the interactive workbook is on the health care proxy and the good communication and trust necessary to share your own wishes for health care and for your health care proxy to ask ...

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 ...

"When David Vetter died at the age of 12, he was already world famous: the boy in the plastic bubble. Mythologized as the plucky, handsome child who had defied the odds, his life story is in fact even more dramatic. It ...

My Left Foot, the most acclaimed film of 1990, features Daniel Day-Lewis s Academy Award winning performance as Christy Brown, a man who triumphs over impossible odds to achieve greatness. Academy Award Winner for Best ...

"Based on the true story of young anthropologist Dian Fossey (Sigourney Weaver) who travels to the African mountains to study the rare gorillas. In this incredible paradise which she describes as being 'as close to God ...

"In the summer of 1971, Philip Zimbardo, Craig Haney, and Curtis Banks carried out a psychological experiment to test a simple question: What happens when you put good people in an evil place - does humanity win over evil, ...

Dr. Peter Singer "introduces end-of-life issues such as withholding versus withdrawing care, nutrition and hydration, euthanasia, and advance directives." [description from PHEN site]

This segment of Donahue [the Phil Donahue Show] focuses on in-vitro fertilization or test tube babies shortly after the birth of Louise Brown in England on July 25, 1978. The date for the segment is 1978. Dr. Andre ...

John Glaser, STD, and Barbara Meyer Lucas, M.D., open the program and discuss premature babies, the critically ill newborn, and handicapped infants, noting the disparity between physicians, hospitals, or geographic areas ...

The television documentary offers information about heart and liver transplants, including economic statistics and a discussion of brain death.