6.
Medical Ethics
Medical
decision-making and end-of-life issues.
'Living
Wills' or Advance Directives for Medical Care
Advance
Directives for Medical Care:
24 Important Questions to Ask
A brief exploration of 24 open-ended Questions for a comprehensive
Advance Directive.
Questions
for your 'Living Will'
or Advance Directive for Medical Care
A list of the 24 basic Questions to answer in creating an Advance
Directive.
'Living
Will' Workshop:
Writing Our Own Advance Directives for Medical Care
Course descriptions (short and long) for a workshop on creating Advance
Directives.
Books on
Advance Directives for Medical Care
Reviews of several books explaining Advance Directives.
Your
Last Year:
Creating Your Own Advance Directive for Medical Care
The table of contents with links to several pages from a book by James
Park.
James
Park's Advance Directive for Medical Care
One person's comprehensive Advance Directive,
answering each of the 24 basic Questions—50
pages.
Condensed
version of James Park's 'Living Will'
One-paragraph Answers to each of the 24 Questions—4
pages.
Portal for
Advance Directives for Medical Care
A comprehensive listing of Internet resources.
Personhood
When Is
a Person?
Pre-Persons & Former Persons
A short essay exploring four criteria of personhood:
consciousness, memory, language, & autonomy.
When Is a
Person?
Pre-Persons & Former Persons
A small book on personhood,
exploring the four marks of personhood more completely—68
pages.
Discussing
Degrees of Mental Decline
Applying about 200 questions about personhood
to individuals we know who might be becoming former persons.
Personhood
Bibliography
Reviews of several books exploring what it means to be a person.
Health-Care
Costs
Nine
Ways to Reduce Health-Care Costs
Practical changes we can make to save money on medical care.
Voluntary
Rationing of Health-Care
What limits should we set for medical resources we will use?
Medical
Futility
Medical
Futility Monitor:
Avoiding the Million-Dollar Death
A new medical specialty helping everyone decide when to 'pull the plug'.
Books on
Medical Futility
Reviews of several books questioning useless medical care.
Organ
Donation
The
Dead-Donor Rule:
How Dead Do You Have to Be?
Harvesting organs from:
the brain-dead, the permanently unconscious,
patients in persistent vegetative state, Alzheimer's disease.
The
Living Cadaver:
Medical Uses of Permanently Unconscious Bodies
After consciousness has disappeared forever,
the body could be used in medical research and education.
Organ
Donation after Execution
Voluntary
Execution:
Better than Capital Punishment?
What if a prisoner chose his or her own date of execution?
Can a
Prisoner Ever Make a Free Choice?
Ten safeguards to make sure that the choice of execution is really
voluntary.
Voluntary
Execution followed by Organ Donation
Careful executions could allow prisoners to donate their organs.
Brain-Death
as a Method of Voluntary Execution
This new method of execution would be painless for the prisoner.
The
Brain-Death Protocol for Voluntary Execution followed by Organ Donation
Once the prisoner has been rendered brain-dead,
organs can be harvested in the usual ways.
Created
April 30, 2010; Revised