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Life and Death Decisions in Medicine
Life and Death Decisions in Medicine

Life and Death Decisions in Medicine

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Life and Death Decisions in Medicine

Title: Life and Death Decisions in Medicine

Date: 1 November 2024 (Friday)
Time: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm HKT
Venue: CPD 3.28, Centennial Campus

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Abstract:

This lecture will present arguments, backed up by specific examples, against three beliefs influential in life and death decisions in medicine:

  1. Equal value of human life: All human life is of equal value and all humans have an equal right to life;
  2. Brain death: A human being is dead when either the heart has stopped beating, and blood has ceased to circulate, or when all functions of the brain have irreversibly ceased;
  3. It is always wrong for a doctor intentionally to take a human life.


Speaker:

Prof Peter Singer
Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics, Emeritus, Princeton University


Respondents:
Prof Joe Lau
Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy, The University of Hong Kong

Dr Zohar Lederman
Clinical Practitioner, Department of Emergency Medicine, School of Clinical Medicine, HKUMed
Research Fellow, Centre for Medical Ethics and Law, The University of Hong Kong

Co-organizers:
Hong Kong Ethics Lab
Medical Ethics and Humanities Unit

Welcome to join us!