Titel: 7th joint Workshop on Military Medical Ethics. End-of-life care – ethical issues in military and humanitarian missions

Termin: 4.5.2017 bis 6.5.2017

Veranstaltungsort:
Forum Lilienberg
Blauortstrasse 10
8272 Ermatingen
(Switzerland)

Weitere Informationen:
https://melac.ch/courses-workshops/ethics-workshop/2017-lilienberg

Kurzbeschreibung: The main topic of the 2017 workshop will be End-of-life care – ethical issues in military and humanitarian missions. Ethical issues related to death and dying in clinical contexts have recently attracted much attention. In addition, legal regulations dealing with such issues as assisted suicide have also undergone changes in some countries.

The medical personnel deployed in military and humanitarian missions face similar ethical issues in end-of-life situations to their civilian counterparts, but must deal with additional layers of complexity such as limited resources, language barriers, mission rules etc. We thus invite contributions that approach these problems by taking into account the specific roles and obligations of military and humanitarian health care personnel and that cover for example the following topics:

• Physician-assisted dying and/or physician-assisted suicide.
• Mercy killing
• Medical rules of eligibility for intensive care units. Continuous care
• Palliative care
• Burials and dealing with the dead

Kontakt: University of Zurich
Center for Ethics
Zollikerstr 117
CH-8008 Zurich
cfp@melac.ch
http://www.melac.ch/

Veranstalter: Swiss Armed Forces, Medical Services Directorate, ICMM Centef or Reference for Education on IHL and Ethics

Wissenschaftliche Leitung: Dr. phil. Daniel Messelken, Lt Col David Winkler, MD, PhD

Schlagworte: Lebensende, Medizinische Ethik, Pflegeethik