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| Date: | 10.03.2009, 14:00h to 13.03.2009, 18:00h |
| Location: | Nijmegen Niederlande |
| Keywords: | Physician's role - Physician-patient relationship - End of life - Prolongation of life - Medical ethics - Palliative treatment - Nursing ethics - Nurse-patient relationship - Euthanasia |
| Details: | Course Objectives The course aims to educate the participants on two main aspects of the subject “Suffering, Death and Palliative Care”. First, philosophical, theological and medical reflections on the concepts of death and suffering will be given. Second, the course will highlight ethical questions of palliative care and medically assisted death. Course Profile 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 suffering and death mean. 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. Course Methods The course will consist of a series of lectures on a variety of topics, allowing ample time for intensive discussion. Parallel sessions will be devoted to in-depth small group discussions on different real life cases and particular contemporary issues in the area of end of life decisions. Each group will consist of ten to fifteen participants, led by a faculty member. A variety of audio-visual means, such as video and slides will be used to provide different points of view and approaches, thereby enhancing the educational value of the course. The language will be English. This course is also part of the Erasmus Mundus Master of Bioethics Programme. This is a one-year master programme for students from non-European countries. Participants in this master programme are the Universities of Leuven (Belgium), Nijmegen (Netherlands) and Padua (Italy). |
| Contact: | Anna Laura van der Laan MSc and Valesca Hulsman MA Address: 114 Section Ethics, Philosophy and History of Medicine IQ Healthcare 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: v.hulsman@iq.umcn.nl |
| Webpage: | http://www.umcn.nl/userfiles/other/Brochure3.pdf |
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