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Our faculty presents weekly lectures during The Graduate School's Fall, Winter, and Spring quarters every Thursday from noon to 12:50pm in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie building. Due to public interest, we have made these lectures open to all, inside and outside the Northwestern community. Please feel free to bring a lunch. Beginning this year, we are recording these lectures and making them available online. These recordings are playable in iTunes and include the presentation slides in sync with the audio. More information is available here. | Key to recording symbols: | |  | Available | |  | Will be available soon | |  | Will not be made available | | (More information) |
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Thursday, May 1 Following the highly publicized and politicized Terry Schiavo case, the permissibility of withholding artificially provided fluids and nutrition in dying patients in the U.S. has been a largely settled legal matter. However, the practice remains controversial in at least two respects. Roman Catholic Church officials have cautioned against removing such forms of life support and the staffs of many neonatal intensive care units have expressed reservations about the practice. This lecture will explore the latter. .
Thursday, May 8 Courts have increasingly recognized that some adolescents enjoy legal rights to make important health care decisions for themselves, even when the minors disagree with their parents/legal guardians. Many adolescents with chronic life-threatening conditions have clear views about what treatments they do or do not want as their conditions deteriorate based on their knowledge and experience with their diseases and available treatments. However, social psychology gives us pause before granting wholesale decision-making authority to teenagers with serious diseases. .
Thursday, May 15 In recent years we have witnessed a revolution in understanding about biological determinants of human sexual behavior going back to fetal development. Moreover, life experiences of patients with DSD have informed medical and surgical personnel that treatment traditions have often failed to provide for satisfying personal identities and sexual experience. In light of these factors, early childhood surgery to "normalize" genital appearance has no satisfactory justification. | | |
