Tuesday, August 11, 2020

ASBH Annual Conference - Sessions on End of Life Topics

The American Society for Bioethics and Humanities will be holding its 22nd annual conference in a dynamic, virtual format from October 12 to 18, 2020. Here are some interesting sessions related to end-of-life issues.

Thursday

10:00 AM - Panel Presentation - Current Ethical and Legal Issues in Brain Death in Our Pluralistic World

10:00 AM - Panel Presentation - Medical, Surgical, Ethical and Philosophical Perspectives on PEG Tubes in Advanced Dementia

1:45 PM - Panel Presentation - Biomedicine & Flourishing at the End of Life: A Panel of New Bioethics Books

1:45 PM - Panel Presentation - Dead or Alive? Managing Conflict Surrounding Death Determination

1:45 PM - Panel Presentation - Ethical Considerations for End-of-Life Care in Terminal Psychiatric Illness

4:00 PM - Panel Presentation - Legal Update 2020: Top 10 Legal Developments in Bioethics and Public Health

4:00 PM - Panel Presentation - Potentially Inappropriate Interventions and “Sufficient Cognitive Ability”: Inappropriately Deciding Which Lives are Worth Saving

Friday

3:00 PM - Paper Presentation Q&A - Medical Assistance in Dying

3:45 PM - Panel Presentation - Between Life and Death: Revisiting the Case of Jahi McMath

Saturday

10:15 AM - Panel Presentation - Decision Making and Flourishing When State Law and Institutional Policy on Medically Inappropriate Treatment Differ: A 4-State Comparison

10:15 AM - Panel Presentation - The Ethical Permissibility of Nudging in Critical Care

3:15 PM - Panel Presentation - Ethical Medical Decision-Making for Unrepresented Patients: The Unrepresented Patient Project for Illinois (UPPI)

3:15 PM - Panel Presentation - Is This Child Dead? Controversies Regarding the Neurological Criteria for Death

Sunday

12:45 PM - Debates - Perspectives on Physician-Assisted Dying for Persons with Psychiatric Illnesses



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