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Alan Watts – Acceptance of Death EOL in Art 38
Here is a very well done four minute clip on the importance of accepting death.  It correlates film clips with portions of a lecture by British philosopher Alan Watts.
Source: blog.bioethics.net - June 17, 2015 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs

Now a Third California Brain Death Dispute – Alan Sanchez
LA County-USC Medical Center says 17-year-old Alan Sanchez is brain dead. But his family wants to fight on. “We’re fighting for his life right now,” said his sister, Laura Sanchez-Alvarado.  They said he needs another operation. Doctors are refusing to perform the operation because they said Sanchez is brain dead, days after being involved in a car accident.   The family is working the phones and hoping a judge will step in.  (CBS News)  There is a GoFundMe site.
Source: blog.bioethics.net - April 24, 2016 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs

Silence versus Bearing Witness: Response to Alan Stone
by Bandy X. Lee, MD, MDiv Earlier this year, I was delighted to discover that Dr. Alan Stone had written a review of the book I edited: The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump: 27 Psychiatrists and Mental Health Experts Assess a President, for the blog Lawfare. Most outside of psychiatry will not have heard of Dr. Stone, but he is a well-respected figure among psychiatrists who practice at the intersections of law and ethics, such as myself.  I was delighted not because I was anticipating a positive review, but because I hoped that a rigorous discussion without misrepresentation would break open the myopia of my field.…
Source: blog.bioethics.net - September 19, 2018 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Blog Editor Tags: Featured Posts Politics professional ethics Psychiatric Ethics Source Type: blogs

Part I: THE IMITATION GAME meets HOW I CAME TO HATE MATH/Comment j’ai détesté les Maths, Moral Relativism vs Beneficence and Justice: Moral Injury, War and Computer Science
THE IMITATION GAME Alan Turing was a Cambridge trained mathematician, wonderfully portrayed by Benedict Cumberbatch (Sherlock) in the WWII bio-historical thriller, THE IMITATION GAME. The film directed by Morten Tyldum and written by Graham Moore was screened at the 36th annual Mill Valley Film Festival 2014. It is an adaptation of a book by Andrew Hodges, Alan Turing: The Enigma While a fellow at the MacLean Center for Clinical Medical Ethics in 1990, it was this writer's profound good luck to meet and spend time with the late Dr. Stephen Toulman, a British born physicist, mathematician, philosopher and communic...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - December 16, 2014 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: September Williams, MD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs

Choosing To Die, Right Or Wrong? With Phyllis Shacter (Death Hangout)
The podcast series Death Hangout recently featured Phyllis Shacter on VSED.  Phyllis is the author of the book, Choosing to Die. The book is a personal story about her journey with her late husband Alan and his choice to die by Voluntarily Stopping Eating & Drinking (VSED). The reason Alan chose to do this was he had been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and he wanted to end his life as conscious and organically as possible and to reduce his suffering. The Death Hangout hosts talk with Phyllis about the process, how it impacted Alan and her, and how it has changed how she lives now.
Source: blog.bioethics.net - August 7, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs

Part II: THE IMITATION GAME meets HOW I CAME TO HATE MATH/ Comment J’ai Détesté Les Maths Moral Relativism vs Beneficence and Justice: Maths and Economics
HOW I CAME TO HATE MATH/ Comment J'ai Détesté Les Maths is a film Directed by Olivier Peyon and written along with Amandine Escoffier. It  is a documentary whose initial purpose seems hijacked by historical events. Its parallel to the fictional historical biopic thriller, THE IMITATION GAME, screened at the Mill Valley Film Festival 2014, need be made.  The MATH story, like in THE IMITATION GAME, begins lightly with young people who are awkward. Some of them, like Alan Turing,  grow into the lovely eccentricity that those who both love and understand maths often bear. Peyton’s film tours...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - December 16, 2014 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: September Williams, MD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs

Choosing To Die: A Personal Story: Elective Death by Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED) in the Face of Degenerative Disease
I have written and spoken about the real (and perceived) legal  obstacles to hastening death by Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED).  But please check out this new family perspective (Amazon). In Choosing To Die: A Personal Story: Elective Death by Voluntarily Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED) in the Face of Degenerative Disease, Phyllis Shacter courageously shares the first personal story ever written about VSED. This memoir and guidebook follows the journey she took with her husband, Alan, once he decided to VSED so he didn’t have to live into the late stages of Alzheimer...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - May 2, 2017 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs

Domain Specific AI in Healthcare: An Ethical Perspective
What is Artificial Intelligence? This central question has captivated the minds of specialists – mathematicians, computer scientists, cognitive scientists, and the like – and passive observers since the days of Alan Turing and John von Neumann. In this discussion I will distinguish between three types of Artificial Intelligence – human level, superhuman, and domain specific. Through this exercise I hope to shed light on the difficulties in conceptually defining the term Artificial Intelligence, as well as dispel misconceptions about the state of the art in Artificial Intelligence. To what end? I hope that...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - February 3, 2020 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Bioethics Today Tags: Health Care syndicated Source Type: blogs

Dolan Press Release on Postponing Jahi McMath Hearing
The following is an unedited press release issued by Christopher Dolan, McMath family attorney.  I have posted a copy of the referenced documents here. Christopher Dolan, McMath family attorney, has asked Alameda County Superior Court Judge Emillo Grillo to postpone tomorrow’s hearing regarding Jahi McMath’s status as brain dead so that the team of international brain death experts presented by McMath’s attorneys can have time to read and react to a new statement issued by Dr. Paul Fischer, the physician who originally testified as to Jahi’s brain death.  This come...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - October 9, 2014 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs

The Lack of Consensus about Futility (Video)
Earlier this month, Alan Meisel presented "The Lack of Consensus about Futility" as part of the MacLean Center's 2014-2015 seminar series.
Source: blog.bioethics.net - November 26, 2014 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs

Man Experiencing First Real Moment of Peace in Years Resuscitated
The Onion is so funny, because it is so true. "Interrupting the only moment of genuine peace the man had known in several decades, a team of paramedics reportedly resuscitated area resident Alan Taborsky this morning following an apparent cardiac arrest." "Reports indicated that just as Taborsky had reached a state of complete relaxation in which he felt unburdened by his life’s troubles for the first time in recent memory, medical technicians wrenched him back into consciousness with a pair of defibrillator pads."
Source: blog.bioethics.net - August 21, 2015 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs

The NFL & Research Ethics
It’s not every day that research ethics makes it way to the front pages of the newspapers. Usually those issues are addressed in other, less prominent venues. But last week’s New York Times article by Alan Schwarz, Walt Bogdanich, and Jacqueline Williams, “N.F.L.’s Flawed Concussion Research and Ties to the Tobacco Industry,” continued the controversial concussion discussion by reporting that the multi-billion dollar league omitted... // Read More »
Source: blog.bioethics.net - March 28, 2016 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Neil Skjoldal Tags: Health Care bioethics syndicated Source Type: blogs

Five Current Brain Death Cases in California
As of the end of last week, there were five brain death cases in California. 1.  Jahi McMath's federal lawsuit against the state of California seeking to revoke her death certificate. Parents of Alan Sanchez 2.  Jahi McMath's state me...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - April 26, 2016 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs

Quinlan at 40: Exploring the Right to Die in the US
Join me on November 11 at the new Georgia State University Law School building, for an all-day conference "Quinlan at 40: Exploring the Right to Die in the US."  Also speaking areMargaret Battin Alan Meisel Michele Bratcher Goodwin Mary Crossley Marshall Kap Paul Lombardo Erin Fuse Brown Dean Karampelas  Sylvia B. Caley Samantha R. Johnson In recognition of the 40th anniversary of the landmark case, In Re Quinlan, Georgia State University Law Review’s 2016-17 Symposium will explore the state of end-of-life decision-making in the United States from 9 a.m. to 4:45 p.m. Friday, Nov. 11. Quinlan was the first m...
Source: blog.bioethics.net - October 11, 2016 Category: Medical Ethics Authors: Thaddeus Mason Pope, JD, PhD Tags: Health Care medical futility blog syndicated Source Type: blogs