When:
Thursday, October 24, 2019
12:00 PM - 12:45 PM CT
Where: Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center, 1st floor/Searle Room, 303 E. Superior, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Cost: FREE
Contact:
Myria Knox
(312) 503-7962
Group: Medical Humanities & Bioethics Lunchtime Montgomery Lectures
Category: Academic, Lectures & Meetings, Grand Rounds
The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities & Bioethics
presents
A Montgomery Lecture
With
Mark Sheldon, PhD
Distinguished Senior Lecturer Emeritus
Department of Philosophy, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Faculty, Medical Humanities & Bioethics Graduate Program
Feinberg School of Medicine, Northwestern University
Ethicist, Rush University Medical Center
A Defense of Physician Assisted Death
Physicians engage in activities that facilitate patients’ deaths. The claim that is often made is that these activities are different from what is often called physician assisted suicide. Are they? What distinctions are offered to differentiate such activities, and do the distinctions hold?