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Series exploring medical ethics, using fictionalised case studies. Question are put to a panel of doctors, lawyers and health practitioners.
Looks at issues surrounding voluntary euthanasia, including alternatives, the doctor’s role, the concept of the advance directive or living will. Includes a section on voluntary euthanasia in the Netherlands.
Discussion on the dilemmas raised by new technologies as well as lack of resources, as they affect young children. Poses open ended questions such as the right to life versus the right to die, and stresses...
Looks at a policy-capturing study conducted within the medical profession, its intentions, results and reactions to it. In the study judgments made by consultants in assessing the severity of arthritis were...
Looks at medical judgment and how good it is. Can it be improved by the use of decision-making systems? Discussions and expositions are set in the context of a discourse between a judgment analyst and a...
Looks at the new experimental treatments for neurological illnesses. A treatment for Parkinson’s disease involves tissue from the patient’s kidney being inserted into his brain. Another technique,...
A discussion on medical ethics led by Raanan Gillon, a practising GP and editor of the ‘Journal of MedicaL Ethics’. The participants are Diana Brahams (barrister-at-law and editor of the ‘Medico-legal...
Considers the implications for medical education of the issues raised in earlier programmes in the course. Donald Schon explains his idea of the ‘reflective practitioner’. Paul Atkinson discusses the...
A discussion on medicine and the law led by Diana Brahams who is a barrister-at-law, editor of the ‘Medico-Legal Journal’ and legal correspondent to ‘The Lancet’. The participants are Raanan Gillon,...
A short, open-ended drama designed to stimulate discussion of values and ethics in relation to modern medical technology. A woman with multiple sclerosis is waiting for a place in a nursing home. When one is...
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