An extraordinary motion picture, Ordinary People is an intense examination of a family being torn apart by tension and tragedy. Donald Sutherland and Mary Tyler Moore star as the upper-middle-class couple whose ordinary ...

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 ...

Join Academy Award-winners Meryl Streep and William Hurt, along with Renee Zellweger, for an unforgettable look at the pleasure, pain and ultimate joy of being a family. When crisis confronts Katherine and George Gulden, ...

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, ...

The pending case: The People of the State of New York vs. Claudia Draper. The issue: Is Claudia mentally competent to stand trial? Sure, she s shocking. Outspoken. Explosive. Defiant. But is she nuts? You be the ...

An information booklet accompanies this video. The booklet is titled "Shared Concern: Breaking the News to Parents that their Child has a Disability. A Booklet of Guidance for Medical Students, Doctors and Health Workers." ...

Consisting of six dramatic scenes, each illustrates one step or phase in a `typical' organ and tissue donation conversation. Possible scenarios are enacted to help health personnel given the responsibility of discussing ...

"The internationally acclaimed, award-winning documentary about Operation Crossroads, an early U.S. nuclear weapons test conducted at a remote Pacific atoll called Bikini in the summer of 1946." (Description from Cassette)

Program on pregnancy disability, includes an interview with Andre Hellegers, M.D., first director of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. Everywoman was a daily one-hour talk show that aired on Channel 9 WUSA in Washington, ...