Titel: The rights and wrongs of life-and-death children cases
Beginn:
22.4.2005
Veranstaltungsort:
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http://www.bioethics-today.org/events/RightsAndWrongs.doc
treatment for Charlotte Wyatt and Luke Winston-Jones raise a number of
important ethical questions. While a considerable amount of work has
already been done on the withdrawal of treatment, the two recent
decisions involve an extra layer of complexity in that they are
primarily about parents demanding that treatment be continued when the
medical team believes that treatment is futile or not in the patient's
interests.
Further work on these issues is timely because the General Medical
Council is in the process of revising its advice on the withdrawal of
treatment in the light of the recent Lesley Burke successful appeal
against their guidance.
Members of the Institute of Applied Ethics at the University of Hull
are organising a one day workshop to address the ethics of
withdrawing treatment to infants when this is contrary to parental
wishes. Clearly this is an issue that would benefit from an
interdisciplinary approach and we have invited papers from a variety of
disciplines.
Kontakt:
Mr. Don Carrick
D.Carrick@hull.ac.uk
Schlagworte: Lebensbeginn, Lebensende, Lebensverlängerung, Medizinische Ethik