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A Defense of Physician Assisted Death - Mark Sheldon

Thursday, October 24, 2019 | 12:00 PM - 12:45 PM CT
Robert H Lurie Medical Research Center, 1st floor/Searle Room, 303 E. Superior, Chicago, IL 60611 map it
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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?

 

Cost: FREE

Audience

  • Faculty/Staff
  • Student
  • Public
  • Post Docs/Docs
  • Graduate Students

Contact

Myria Knox   (312) 503-7962

p-knox@northwestern.edu

Interest

  • Academic (general)
  • Medicine

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