PDF-(BOOK)-The Right to Die with Dignity: An Argument in Ethics, Medicine, and Law

There are few issues more divisive than what has become known as the right to die One camp upholds death with dignity regarding the terminally ill as autonomous beings capable of forming their own judgment on the timing and process of dying The other camp advocates sanctity of life regarding life as intrinsically valuable and that should be sustained as long as possible Is there a right answerRaphael CohenAlmagor takes a balanced approach in analyzing this emotionally charged debate viewing the dispute from public policy and international perspectives He offers an interdisciplinary compelling study in medicine law religion and ethics It is a comprehensive look at the troubling question of whether physicianassisted suicide should be allowed CohenAlmagor delineates a distinction between active and passive euthanasia and discusses legal measures that have been invoked in the United States and abroad He outlines reasons nonblood relatives should be given a role in deciding a patients last wishes As he examines euthanasia policies in the Netherlands and the 1994 Oregon Death with Dignity Act the author suggests amendments and finally makes a circumscribed plea for voluntary physicianassisted suicide. Beyond . the . Basics. Module 4. Generating Ethical Arguments and Counterarguments. Learning Objectives. Identify ethical arguments and counterarguments and describe the role they play in an ethical analysis.. Week Eight: Free Speech and Euthanasia. Free Speech. Can we have an absolute right to free speech?. Can the right to free speech ever be ‘trumped’?. Free Speech. Ronald . Dworkin. discusses free speech in his paper ‘MacKinnon’s Words’.. IN . FIVE EASY (. ?) STEPS. Sandel’s. Classification of . Normative Ethical Theories. Core concept: maximizing happiness. Utilitarianism (morality, justice). Core concept: protecting freedom. Libertarianism (justice). Shima. Al-Mubarak . Fatmah. Al-. Sakran. . Outline. . Culture and Argument. * Multicultural Argument. * Cultural Argument Patterns. * Culture and Values. * Developing Cultural Argument Competence . th. May, . 2017). Masalakulangwa. 2017 . etm. 400. Important example topics. The Golden Rule. The 7 Deadly sins that destroy humanity. Euthanasia (mercy killing, good death, doctor-assisted suicide). Shima. Al-Mubarak . Fatmah. Al-. Sakran. . Outline. . Culture and Argument. * Multicultural Argument. * Cultural Argument Patterns. * Culture and Values. * Developing Cultural Argument Competence . Program in Health Humanities and Ethics Complete Course List Required Courses HEHE 5000: Foundations in Health Humanities (AMC) HEHE 5100: Foundations of Ethics: Issues in Health (AMC) Elective Cours Ethics and Law in Modern Medicine is a unique book that explores the field of medical ethics and health care decision-making through hypothetical case studies. The truly unique feature of this volume is that each chapter sets forth a hypothetical fact pattern which includes role assignments to encourage participants to actively take part in group discussions and debate the controversial and cutting-edge topics that are presented. Each chapter includes in-depth discussion questions which thoroughly explore issues raised by the hypothetical fact patterns, and suggested readings provide background for participants. Additionally, the volume contains excerpts from key statutes and case law which govern the decision-making process presented in each chapter. The volume covers a wide variety of issues including HIV, the health care rights of minors, consent and confidentiality, assisted reproductive technology, property rights in bodily organs, research ethics, religious freedom and the right to refuse care, rationing of scarce resources, surrogate decision-making, and several other traditional as well as unique ethical, legal, and social issues. Today\'s medicine is spiritually deflated and morally adrift this book explains why and offers an ethical framework to renew and guide practitioners in fulfilling their profession to heal.What is medicine and what is it for? What does it mean to be a good doctor? Answers to these questions are essential both to the practice of medicine and to understanding the moral norms that shape that practice. The Way of Medicine articulates and defends an account of medicine and medical ethics meant to challenge the reigning provider of services model, in which clinicians eschew any claim to know what is good for a patient and instead offer an array of health care services for the sake of the patient\'s subjective well-being. Against this trend, Farr Curlin and Christopher Tollefsen call for practitioners to recover what they call the Way of Medicine, which offers physicians both a path out of the provider of services model and also the moral resources necessary to resist the various political, institutional, and cultural forces that constantly push practitioners and patients into thinking of their relationship in terms of economic exchange.Curlin and Tollefsen offer an accessible account of the ancient ethical tradition from which contemporary medicine and bioethics has departed. Their investigation, drawing on the scholarship of Leon Kass, Alasdair MacIntyre, and John Finnis, leads them to explore the nature of medicine as a practice, health as the end of medicine, the doctor-patient relationship, the rule of double effect in medical practice, and a number of clinical ethical issues from the beginning of life to its end. In the final chapter, the authors take up debates about conscience in medicine, arguing that rather than pretending to not know what is good for patients, physicians should contend conscientiously for the patient\'s health and, in so doing, contend conscientiously for good medicine. The Way of Medicine is an intellectually serious yet accessible exploration of medical practice written for medical students, health care professionals, and students and scholars of bioethics and medical ethics. Today\'s medicine is spiritually deflated and morally adrift this book explains why and offers an ethical framework to renew and guide practitioners in fulfilling their profession to heal.What is medicine and what is it for? What does it mean to be a good doctor? Answers to these questions are essential both to the practice of medicine and to understanding the moral norms that shape that practice. The Way of Medicine articulates and defends an account of medicine and medical ethics meant to challenge the reigning provider of services model, in which clinicians eschew any claim to know what is good for a patient and instead offer an array of health care services for the sake of the patient\'s subjective well-being. Against this trend, Farr Curlin and Christopher Tollefsen call for practitioners to recover what they call the Way of Medicine, which offers physicians both a path out of the provider of services model and also the moral resources necessary to resist the various political, institutional, and cultural forces that constantly push practitioners and patients into thinking of their relationship in terms of economic exchange.Curlin and Tollefsen offer an accessible account of the ancient ethical tradition from which contemporary medicine and bioethics has departed. Their investigation, drawing on the scholarship of Leon Kass, Alasdair MacIntyre, and John Finnis, leads them to explore the nature of medicine as a practice, health as the end of medicine, the doctor-patient relationship, the rule of double effect in medical practice, and a number of clinical ethical issues from the beginning of life to its end. In the final chapter, the authors take up debates about conscience in medicine, arguing that rather than pretending to not know what is good for patients, physicians should contend conscientiously for the patient\'s health and, in so doing, contend conscientiously for good medicine. The Way of Medicine is an intellectually serious yet accessible exploration of medical practice written for medical students, health care professionals, and students and scholars of bioethics and medical ethics. The individual and structural biases that affect the American healthcare system have serious emotional and physical consequences that all too often go unseen. These biases are often rooted in power, class, racial, gender or sexual orientation prejudices, and as a result, the injured parties usually lack the resources needed to protect themselves. In Healthcare and Human Dignity, individual worth, equality, and autonomy emerge as the dominant values at stake in encounters with doctors, nurses, hospitals, and drug companies. Although the public is aware of legal battles over autonomy and dignity in the context of death, the everyday patient’s need for dignity has received scant attention.  Thus, in Healthcare, law professor Frank McClellan’s collection of cases and individual experiences bring these stories to life and establish beyond doubt that human dignity is of utmost priority in the everyday process of healthcare decision making. The individual and structural biases that affect the American healthcare system have serious emotional and physical consequences that all too often go unseen. These biases are often rooted in power, class, racial, gender or sexual orientation prejudices, and as a result, the injured parties usually lack the resources needed to protect themselves. In Healthcare and Human Dignity, individual worth, equality, and autonomy emerge as the dominant values at stake in encounters with doctors, nurses, hospitals, and drug companies. Although the public is aware of legal battles over autonomy and dignity in the context of death, the everyday patient’s need for dignity has received scant attention.  Thus, in Healthcare, law professor Frank McClellan’s collection of cases and individual experiences bring these stories to life and establish beyond doubt that human dignity is of utmost priority in the everyday process of healthcare decision making. Mars Hill University. University of North Carolina School of Medicine-Asheville. Arlene M. Davis, J.D., . UNC Center for Bioethics,. Dept of Social Medicine, . UNC SOM. Director, Clinical Ethics, UNC Hospitals. The Urgent Need for Collaborative Partnerships in Africa. Dr Gerald Michael Ssebunnya. AFRICA INSTITUTE FOR HUMAN DIGNITY. gms@humandignityafrica.com. . GFBR Meeting 2019, Singapore. 12. th. – 13.