Before I die. Medical care and personal choices
Description
In the drive to save lives, American medical technology prolongs the dying process for many, creating a number of end-of-life scenarios that have done much to rob death of its dignity and significance. This Fred Friendly Seminar, moderated by Harvard Law School's Arthur Miller, brings together a diverse group of panelists, including Yale professor Sherwin Nuland, author of How We Die; bioethicist Arthur Caplan, of the University of Pennsylvania; Rabbi Maurice Lamm, of Yeshiva University; and Anna Quindlen, author and Pulitzer Prize-winning columnist. Together they confront medical and cultural issues such as advance directives, palliative care, physician-assisted suicide, the need to re-spiritualize the dying process, and the overall difficulty of discussing death.
Runtime
57 min
Subjects
- Adulthood (96)
- Ageism (40)
- Terminal care (54)
- Older people (270)
- Palliative (24)
- Social work with older people (25)
- Medical ethics (151)
- Age discrimination (34)
Genre
Date of Publication
[2006], c1997
Database
Films on Demand
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