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| Date: | 27.04.2006, 15:30h to 29.04.2006, 17:00h |
| Location: | Nijmegen The Netherlands |
| Keywords: | End of life - Euthanasia - Palliative treatment |
| Details: | The Advanced European Bioethics course on ?Death without Suffering? has been developed in order to address end-of-life issues in a broader social, philosophical, theological and medical framework. New developments in health care strengthen a potential of medical utopia, the promise of a better life for everyone. This process also influences the way societies and individuals deal with the end of life. The question arises what a death without suffering means; a subject of continuous longing of mankind. It requires thorough conceptual interpretation as well as ethical reflection. In the international discussion, hastening death medically has been considered a proper means to preserve personal autonomy and quality of life. An important alternative in this field is palliative care, defined by the WHO as the active total care of patients whose disease is not responsive to curative treatment. The question needs to be carefully investigated if good palliative care helps to prevent the demand for euthanasia. Palliative care seems to be primarily a morally motivated concept, rather than an institutional or organisational principle. Attitudes towards death and dying, adequate pain and symptom management and foregoing medical treatment receive considerable attention. Ethical research into the morality of the concept and the practice of palliative care can clarify the coherence and differences between a painless death and a death without suffering. |
| Organizer: | Department of Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine - Radboud University Nijmegen Medical Centre , Nijmegen , The Netherlands |
| Contact: | Mr. Norbert Steinkamp, MA and Ms Valesca Hulsman, MA Address: Department of Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine, Radboud University, Nijmegen Medical Centre, PO Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands Tel: +31 - (0)24 - 3 61 53 20 Fax: +31 - (0)24 - 3 54 02 54 Email: n.steinkamp@efg.umcn.nl; v.hulsman@efg.umcn.nl |
| Webpage: | http://www.umcn.nl/professional/afdelingen/efg/opleidingen/death_without_suffering |
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