Posts Tagged ‘bioethics’
When Medical Treatment is Worse than Death
10, Aug 2010Letting Go What should medicine do when it can’t save your life? Atul Gawande, The New Yorker (August 2, 2010) Dr. Atul Gawande: Make End Of Life More Humane Terry Gross, Fresh Air on WHHY (July 29, 2010) A few weeks ago, Dr. Atul Gawande wrote a good piece on End of Life decision making [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + the Law|Death Ethics
- Tags: assisted dying, bioethics, death with dignity
The (Death) Singularity is Near
17, Jun 2010Merely Human? That’s So Yesterday Ashlee Vance, The New York Times (June 13, 2010) The Singularity movement sees a time when human beings and machines will merge and overcome illness and perhaps death. The tagline for this New York Times article is only partially correct. The Singularity movement and another group called the Transhumanists see [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + Biology|Death + Technology|Death Ethics
- Tags: bioethics, definition of death
Rationing End-of-Life Care Debate
29, Apr 2010Debating the Ethics of Rationing End-of-Life Care The NewsHour (April 26, 2010) The NewsHour on PBS ran a short piece on a recent end-of-life care debate at the University of Virginia’s Miller Center of Public Affairs. A video from the debate, which was much longer and must be available somewhere on the interweb, is embedded [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + the Law|Death Ethics
- Tags: bioethics, death with dignity, video
Terri Schiavo Five Years On
31, Mar 20105 Years After Schiavo, Few Make End-Of-Life Plans Matt Sedensky, Associated Press (March 30, 2010) Five years ago today, Terri Schiavo died in Florida. March 31, 2005. I can’t believe that five years have already elapsed, in part because I was in the middle of finishing my Ph.D. dissertation on the dead body and also [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + the Law|Death Ethics
- Tags: bioethics, religion
2009 Oregon Death with Dignity Numbers
14, Mar 20102009 Summary of Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act The Oregon Public Health Division (March 2010) Report Finds 36 Died Under Assisted Suicide Law William Yardley, The New York Times (March 04, 2010) Earlier this month, the state of Oregon published its annual report on who used the 1997 Death with Dignity Act. I have discussed [...]
- By: John
- In: Death + the Law|Death Ethics|Suicide
- Tags: assisted dying, bioethics