| 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. |
Children, Death, and Bioethics | | Mark Sheldon, PhD
Distinguished Senior Lecturer
Philosophy, and
Medical Humanities & Bioethics
Northwestern University |
The Forced Transfusion of Children of Jehovah's WitnessesThursday, October 15, 2009 This lecture discusses the ethical dilemmas that arise when the children of Jehovah's witnesses require blood transfusions. When, if ever, is it right to act against the family's wishes & beliefs in the interest of the child's health? Children as Organ DonorsThursday, October 22, 2009 This lecture examines the ethical dilemmas that arise when children are used as donors in living-donor organ donation. In Defense of Physician-Assisted Suicide and Maybe Even EuthanasiaThursday, October 29, 2009 This lecture examines physician-assisted death and the different names it goes by—physician-assisted suicide, euthanasia. What do these different terms imply? And more importantly, when is a physician right to perform any of these? | | |
