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Medical Choices and Pastoral Guidance (October 29, 1991)
(1991-10-29)
A workshop conference about the Patient Self Determination Act, living wills, and patient decision making and the role of health personnel was taped by Georgetown University's Center for Clinical Bioethics, which sponsored ...
Who Lives, Who Dies, Who Decides? (Three Parts) (1986)
(1986)
Television news personality Ted Koppel moderates a nationwide video teleconference with discussion in three areas: 1) Introduction and Technology. Panelists are Thomas F. Ferris, Donald S. Frederickson, Albert Gore, Jr., ...
The Ethical Question: Physician Assisted Suicide
(1992)
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) ...
Reasoning in Medical Ethics, Program No. 2
(1992)
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 ...
Euthanasia (1990)
(1990-09)
The tapes show various people discussing the issues involved in legalizing euthanasia. The speakers include Derek Humphry, then director of the Hemlock Society, speaking on ``The Right to Choose to Die''with Prof. Martin ...
Difficult Decisions: When a Loved One Approaches Death (2000)
(2000)
"When a loved one's fate lies in another's hands, the decisions can be overwhelming. This program, hosted by NewsHour's Ray Suarez, follows two families as they grapple with life-and- death decisions inside an ICU. A ...
EPEC: Education for Physicians on End-of-Life-Care: Participant's Guide (1999)
(1999)
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 ...
Death and Dying (1980)
(1980)
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 Archdiocese of Washington Presents: The Ends of Life: Legal, Ethical, & Spiritual Dimensions
(1992-02-23)
Several Catholic theologians, physicians, lawyers, and ethicists discuss topics at the "Ends of Life." Rev. Russell Smith; John Collins Harvey, M.D.; William May, Ph.D.; Kevin O'Rourke, Ph.D.; Basile Oclo, J.D.; Sheperdson ...
Rational Suicide (1981)
(1981)
Interviews with Derek Humphry and Dame Cicely Saunders offer arguments in favor of and against assisted suicides. Dame Cicely says the ``right to die will become the duty to die.'' An unidentified man from Philadelphia ...