Medical Ethics Seminar

Flint · 07-26-2006, 03:44 PM

PROGRAM DESCRIPTION

Last week’s arrest of the physician and two nurses for administration of lethal doses of drugs to four elderly patients in the aftermath of Katrina has raised broader questions than a battle about euthanasia. The case has to do with what society determines about professional duty and responsibility in the most desperate of conditions. This seminar wrestles with the haunting question, Is it possible when disaster strikes and the patient is destined to endure a torturous death that ethical norms may justifiably change? Is it possible that the circumstantial dysfunction may lead to a different “state of nature,” requiring new thought about the social contract?

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

At the conclusion of the seminar, participants should be able to:

1. Deliberate about whether the legal system is adequate to decide the ethical and professional intent of compassion and mercy in the face of chaos.

2. Describe several paradigms of response in the history of humankind.

3. Identify basic parameters for the reflective conscience in the midst of an event where “the horrific nature of death by disaster turns on a question of how we choose to die.”

smoothmoniker · 07-27-2006, 02:24 AM

Sounds interesting.

wolf · 07-27-2006, 02:34 AM

Damn, I would like to go to that.

07-26-2006, 03:44 PM	#1
Flint Snowflake Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Dystopia Posts: 13,136	Medical Ethics Seminar PROGRAM DESCRIPTION Last week’s arrest of the physician and two nurses for administration of lethal doses of drugs to four elderly patients in the aftermath of Katrina has raised broader questions than a battle about euthanasia. The case has to do with what society determines about professional duty and responsibility in the most desperate of conditions. This seminar wrestles with the haunting question, Is it possible when disaster strikes and the patient is destined to endure a torturous death that ethical norms may justifiably change? Is it possible that the circumstantial dysfunction may lead to a different “state of nature,” requiring new thought about the social contract? LEARNING OBJECTIVES At the conclusion of the seminar, participants should be able to: 1. Deliberate about whether the legal system is adequate to decide the ethical and professional intent of compassion and mercy in the face of chaos. 2. Describe several paradigms of response in the history of humankind. 3. Identify basic parameters for the reflective conscience in the midst of an event where “the horrific nature of death by disaster turns on a question of how we choose to die.” __________________ **************** There's a level of facility that everyone needs to accomplish, and from there it's a matter of deciding for yourself how important ultra-facility is to your expression. ... I found, like Joseph Campbell said, if you just follow whatever gives you a little joy or excitement or awe, then you're on the right track. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Terry Bozzio**

07-27-2006, 02:24 AM	#2
smoothmoniker to live and die in LA Join Date: Feb 2003 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 2,090	Sounds interesting. __________________ to live and die in LA

07-27-2006, 02:34 AM	#3
wolf lobber of scimitars Join Date: Jul 2001 Location: Phila Burbs Posts: 20,774	Damn, I would like to go to that. __________________ wolf eht htiw og "Conspiracies are the norm, not the exception." --G. Edward Griffin The Creature from Jekyll Island High Priestess of the Church of the Whale Penis

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