| These lectures address diverse topics within bioethics and the medical humanities. Speakers are MH&B faculty or special guests we've invited to present. The lectures run every Thursday from noon to 12:45pm in the Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie building, during The Graduate School's fall, winter, and spring quarters. Due to public interest, we've made these lectures open to all, inside and outside the Northwestern community. Please feel free to bring a lunch. |
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Thursday, April 17 . . Using the events at Memorial Medical Center as background, the paper considers "forced abandonment" as an excusing condition for euthanasia. The bioethical issues suggested by the events in New Orleans are compared with those that arise in connection with "battlefield euthanasia." The arguments in these two settings are substantially different from those that support euthanasia as a response to intractable suffering.
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