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Aging and Care-Giving: Lessons on Assisted Suicide from the Oregon and Netherlands Experiences
Herbert Hendin, M.D., Medical Director, American Foundation for Suicide Prevention

http://bioethics.gov/transcripts/march05/session1.html

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Spring 2007 – Philosophy Department PHIL 270 - BIOMEDICAL ETHICS (Martin CURD)

TTH 12:30 – 1:20 Martin Curd

M REC 0101 9:30 – 10:20

M REC 0201 10:30 – 11:20M REC 0301 12: 30 – 1:20

Should people be allowed to sell their kidneys? Even if human fetuses are persons, does it follow that all abortions are wrong? Are brain-dead humans really dead? Are human embryos persons? Is it ever permissible for physicians to lie to patients? Do experiments on human beings always require informed consent? Should alcoholics be given a lower priority for liver transplants than non-alcoholics? These are the kinds of questions that the course will address. Topics include abortion, euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide, human experimentation, human cloning, assisted reproduction, social justice and the allocation of health resources. The focus will be on moral theories, principles, concepts, and arguments.

http://www.cla.purdue.edu/philosophy/courses

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Some interesting links on euthanasia.
Nicolae

• Linacre Centre for Healthcare Ethics - http://www.linacre.org/
  
• Oregon’s Death with Dignity Act (Oregon Department of Human Services) - http://oregon.gov/DHS/ph/pas/index.shtml
  
• Voluntary Euthanasia Society of the Netherlands- http://www.euthanasia.cc/ dutch.html
• INFORMATION FOR RESEARCH ON EUTHANASIA – www.euthanasia.com
  
• CRISE is an interdisciplinary research centre at the Université du Québec à Montréal (Montréal, Québec, Canada) - http://www.crise.ca/index_eng.asp
  
• LEGISLATIONS regarding Euthanasia - http://www.senat.fr/lc/lc49/lc49.html
  
• L’euthanasie et le droit (notice du Pr. Le Gueut-Develay, Faculté de Médecine de Rennes1) - http://www.med.univ-rennes1.fr/etud/medecine_legale/euthanasie.htm
  
• Care Not Killing is an alliance of 24 organizations in the UK whose purpose is to promote palliative care and oppose euthanasia. See: http://www.carenotkilling.org.uk/
• Citizens United Resisting Euthanasia (CURE, Ltd.) at: http://mysite.verizon.net/cureltd/
• Compassion in Dying See:http://www.compassionindying.org/
• The Compassionate Healthcare Network, (CHN) opposes choice in Euthanasia, while promoting care for the terminally ill. See: http://www.chninternational.com/
• Death with Dignity National Center has a very comprehensive web site at http://www.deathwithdignity.org
  
• The Euthanasia Research & Guidance Organization (ERGO) See: http://www.FinalExit.org
• The International Anti-Euthanasia Task Force has a home page at
  http://www.iaetf.org/
• The Right-To-Die Society http://www.righttodie.ca

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The Legacy of the Terri Schiavo Case: Why is it so hard to die in America?
The University of Pennsylvania Center for Bioethics
10th Anniversary Symposium - April 30 - May 1, 2006

Archived Webcast of Event on

http://www.bioethics.upenn.edu/symposium/?pageId=1

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American Society for Bioethics and Humanities

National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference

The National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference (NUBC) is an annual event bringing together students and speakers from across the country. Planned and organized completely by students, this two-day (Friday – Saturday) event covers issues of current interest within the field of bioethics with discussions led by experts invited by the hosting students. The conference is hosted in the spring. Hosts have been: Princeton (1998), University of Virginia (1999), Notre Dame (2000), Emory (2001), Boston University (2002), Texas A & M (2003), University of Michigan (2004), University of Pennsylvania (2005), and Notre Dame (2006). The 10th National Undergraduate Bioethics Conference will be held at Michigan State University in March 2007.

Save the Date

10th Annual NUBC
International Bioethics: New Frontiers and Emerging Issues

March 23-25, 2007
Michigan State University

Keynote Speaker
Daniel Callahan, PhD, Director, The Hastings Center

http://www.msu.edu/~ubs/

Call for Papers and Panels coming soon.

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Hi there,

Our first workshop was a real success (my friends told me that). I was expecting no more than 20-25 people and finally we were 54 (Thanks Jonathan for the count).

I’ve posted some photos online. Thanks all of you for having been there!!!!!!

Nicolae

PS. New ideas, new topics, new interests - are more than welcome, please do not hesitate to send me an email if you are inspired and even if you are not!

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