End of Life Decisions: Ethics in clinical practice, research and policy
XI Annual Swedish Symposium on Biomedicine, Ethics and Society: Seglarhotellet, Sandhamn, 8-9 June 2009
End of Life Decisions
Death is the most personal and yet impersonal event in our lives. Death is necessarily experienced alone, but we are not supposed to die on our own. It affects people around us. Staff, relatives and legislators all have an idea of how this death is to occur, with whom and how it is to be handled.
This was the last in a long series of annual multi disciplinary research symposia on Biomedicine, Ethics and Society, this time concerned ethics at the end of life. End of life decisions have ethical, social and legal aspects. Is there a good death? Who should define what a good death is? What need is there for regulations? How do we conceptualize our hopes and fears of death and dying?
The first day of the symposium consisted of 4 keynote lectures and plenary discussions. The second day of the symposium consisted of 21 presentations in parallel sessions. Programme >
Presentations: Keynote addresses
The Good Death Revisited
Simon Woods, Policy, Ethics and Life Sciences Research Centre (PEALS), Newcastle University. Abstract >
End-Of-Life Care of Children and Adolescents with Cancer
Liisa Hovi, Hospital for Children and Adolescents, University of Helsinki. Abstract >
Medical Research at the Border of Life and Death - Risk, value and societal interest
Søren Holm, Cardiff School of Law and University of Oslo.
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Policies and Guidelines - What are their status, how are they developed and how are they implemented?
Nina Rehnqvist, SBU – The Swedish Council on Technology Assessment in Health Care. Abstract >
Presentations: parallel sessions
- Policy and End of Life Decisions
- End of Life Decisions from the Patient's Perspective
- The Role of Physicians and Nurses in End of Life Decision Making
- End of Life Dilemmas in Research
Planning committee
Stefan Eriksson, ThD, Senior Researcher
Josepine Fernow, Co-ordinator
Mats G. Hansson, Professor, Director
Anna T. Höglund, Associate Professor, Senior Lecturer
Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics
E-mail: crb@crb.uu.se
Arranged by the Centre for Research Ethics & Bioethics, in collaboration with:
Barncancerfonden (the Swedish Childhood Cancer Foundation)
Läkartidningen (the Journal of the Swedish Medical Association)
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond (Bank of Sweden Tercentenary Foundation)
Vårdal Foundation for Health Care and Allergy Research
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