Mar 24, 2015 — Physician-assisted suicide endangers the weak, corrupts medicine, compromises the family, and violates human dignity and legal equality.

Apr 1, 2011 — When Death is Sought. Assisted Suicide and Euthanasia in a Medical Context

May 24, 2013 — It is imperative that we consider the effect that legalising euthanasia would have on the values and symbols that make up the intangible fabric of our society, and on some of our most important societal institutions.

Dec 8, 2021 — Abstract. Euthanasia and rational suicide were acceptable practices in some quarters in antiquity. These practices all but disappeared as Hippocratic, Jewish, C

Nov 30, 2021 — A panel featuring Ethan Schimmoeller (Memorial Hospital), Randall Smith (University of St. Thomas), and Audra Goodnight (Villanova University). From the 2021 Notre Dame Fall Conference, "I Have Called You By Name: Human Dignity in a Secular World". Session chair: David Lantigua (University of Notre Dame). Full speaker lineup: https://ethicscenter.nd.edu/programs/fall-conference/2021-i-have-called-you-by-name/

Nov 26, 2021 — Royal Society of Edinburgh March 30, 2011

Nov 14, 2021 — Let's work together on a just and compassionate society for the terminally ill, says Archbishop Anthony Fisher OP.

Aug 15, 2021 — Today's medicine is spiritually deflated and morally adrift; this book explains why and offers an ethical framework to renew and guide practitioners in fulfilling their profession to heal. What is medicine and what is it for? What does it mean to be a good doctor? Answers to these questions are essential both to the practice of medicine and to understanding the moral norms that shape that practice. The Way of Medicine articulates and defends an account of medicine and medical ethics meant to challenge the reigning provider of services model, in which clinicians eschew any claim to know what is good for a patient and instead offer an array of "health care services" for the sake of the patient's subjective well-being. Against this trend, Farr Curlin and Christopher Tollefsen call for practitioners to recover what they call the Way of Medicine, which offers physicians both a path out of the provider of services model and also the moral resources necessary to resist the various political, institutional, and cultural forces that constantly push practitioners and patients into thinking of their relationship in terms of economic exchange. Curlin and Tollefsen offer an accessible account of the ancient ethical tradition from which contemporary medicine and bioethics has departed. Their investigation, drawing on the scholarship of Leon Kass, Alasdair MacIntyre, and John Finnis, leads them to explore the nature of medicine as a practice, health as the end of medicine, the doctor-patient relationship, the rule of double effect in medical practice, and a number of clinical ethical issues from the beginning of life to its end. In the final chapter, the authors take up debates about conscience in medicine, arguing that rather than pretending to not know what is good for patients, physicians should contend conscientiously for the patient's health and, in so doing, contend conscientiously for good medicine. The Way of Medicine is an intellectually serious yet accessible exploration of medical practice written for medical students, health care professionals, and students and scholars of bioethics and medical ethics.

Jun 9, 2021

Jan 25, 2021 — BWIP Seminars presents Dr Greg Pike. Dr Greg Pike is a Bios Senior Fellow, founding Director of the Adelaide Centre for Bioethics and Culture and former Director of the Southern Cross Bioethics Institute. He has a background in neurobiology and currently serves as a member of the Federal Government’s Gene Technology and Ethics Community Consultative Committee.