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The Master of Arts in Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program

Presents

A Montgomery Lecture

With

Mark Sheldon, PhD
Distinguished Senior Lecturer Emeritus
Department of Philosophy, Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences
Faculty in the Medical Humanities and Bioethics Program
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine

A Defense of Physician Facilitated Death

Physicians do engage in activities that facilitate patients’ deaths. The claim that is made is that these activities are different from what is called physician-assisted suicide. Are they? What distinctions are offered to differentiate such activities, and do the distinctions hold? What practices, which facilitate dying, are morally and professionally acceptable? This talk will consider the way in which thought on this issue developed in this country, and compare it to the Netherlands, France, and Canada. Professor Sheldon will also sketch his own views about where we should go in the future. Also, the beginning of the talk will briefly describe the way our ideas about death and its place in our existence have evolved.

In-person attendance is open to the Northwestern Community: Searle Seminar Room in the Lurie Research Building (303 East Superior Street, Chicago Campus). Zoom attendance is open to all (registration required.

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