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) ...

Topics covered are: euthanasia and the right to die, AIDS and the health care professional, and patient rights. The program includes an interview with Dr. David H. Smith, a professor of medical ethics at the University ...

"This videotape gives medical caregivers, clergy, laypersons, and patients an in-depth understanding of advance directives. It features Henry S. Perkins, M. D., Associate Professor of medical Ethics at the University of ...

Symposium held in Philadelphia, PA on March 14-15, 1997 to mark the 150th anniversay of "[t]wo historic events that would change forever the face of American medicine [that] occurred in Philadelphia in 1847 - the founding ...

Three physicians, Nancy Cummings of the National Institutes of Health, Edmund D. Pellegrino, director of the Center for the Advanced Study of Ethics at Georgetown University, and Mark Seigler, director of the Center for ...

"The Ethical Question examines many of the critical ethical issues facing the medical profession and society today. Using actual cases and commentary by many of the nation's leading medical ethicists, each tape discusses ...

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 ...

Fourteen standardized patient scenarios on video are available to teachers of medical ethics. The standardized scenarios may be used to teach medical ethics and to evaluate medical students' understanding of ethical issues ...

When pregnant with her, filmmaker Judith Helfand's mother took the synthetic hormone diethylstilbestrol (DES) to prevent miscarriage and ensure a healthy baby. Born in 1963, twenty-five years later Ms. Helfand was diagnosed ...