Titel: Advanced European bioethics course “Suffering, Death and Palliative Care”

Termin: 14.2.2017 bis 17.2.2017

Veranstaltungsort:
Radboud university medical centre
Nijmegen, the Netherlands

Referenten: Philip Larkin (President European Association for Palliative Care / Associate Professor of Clinical Nursing ( Palliativef Care) at University College Dublin and Our Lady’s ‘Hospice) *** Kris Vissers MD, PhD (Professor in pain and palliative care, Radboudumc) *** Ghislaine van Tiel PhD (Assistant Professor of medical ethics, UMC Utrecht) *** Jeroen Hasselaar PhD (Assistant Professor in palliative Care, Radboudumc) *** Kees Besse PhD, MD (Anesthesiologist, Radboudumc) *** Marianne Dees PhD (General physician, postdoctoral researcher) *** Jelle van Gurp PhD (Assistant Professor clinical bioethics, Radboudumc) *** Theo Boer, PhD (Professor of medical ethics, Protestant Theological University) *** Eric Ettema MA (Lecturer and Researcher metamedica, VU University Medical Center (invited)) *** Jacqueline van Meurs (Spiritual Caretaker/ Pastor, Radboudumc) *** Yvon van der Pijl PhD (Assistant Professor cultural anthropology, University of Utrecht (invited)) *** Claudia Venhorst PhD (Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for Thanatology, Radboud University (invited)) *** Joanna Wojtkowiak PhD (Assistant Professor Ethics of Care and Spiritual Counseling Sciences)

Weitere Informationen:
http://www.iqhealthcare.nl/nl/onderwijs/cursussen/advanced-european-bi ...

Kurzbeschreibung: New developments in health care strengthen the promise of a better life for everyone. This process also influences the way societies deal with the end of life and with questions regarding the meaning of suffering and death.

International debates often centre around the question whether medically hastening death is a proper means to preserve human dignity and quality of life. The other side of this issue is palliative care, defined by the WHO as the active total care of patients whose disease is not responsive to curative treatment. The suggestion that adequate palliative care helps prevent the cry for euthanasia and assisted dying, needs careful investigation.

Questions raised by these developments require thorough conceptual interpretation as well as ethical reflection. Objective of this course is to educate the participants on two main aspects: ethical questions of palliative care and medically assisted death, and philosophical, theological and medical reflections on the concepts of death and suffering. Attitudes towards death and dying, and the ethical aspects of continuing or foregoing medical treatment, and of medically assisted death receive considerable attention in this course. In addition, the dimensions of spirituality, rituals and intercultural diversity are covered.

Kontakt: Simone Naber
Tel.: +31 (0) 24 - 3613359 / +31 (0) 24 - 3615320
simone.naber@radboudumc.nl

Veranstalter: The section of Healthcare Ethics, department IQ healthcare, (Radboudumc university medical centre) organizes the 19th edition of the advanced European bioethics course ‘Suffering, Death and Palliative Care’ from February 14 - 17, 2017.

Schlagworte: Lebensende, Lebensverlängerung, Medizinische Ethik, Palliativbehandlung, Pflegeethik, Sterbehilfe