Event: A National Conference on the Past, Present and Future of the PSDA, Nutrition & Hydration and Palliative Care

October 5, 2010

Presented by The Center for Practical Bioethics

November 12th and 13th.

Kansas City, Missouri

Twenty years ago, bioethics and law teamed up to defeat a common enemy – paternalistic medicine. Armed with new weapons — the US Supreme Court’s decision in Cruzan and the Patient Self-Determination Act — autonomy would reign, and doctors would do what they were directed by patients, their advance directives, or their surrogates.

Many have come to believe that this social strategy was insufficient at best and possibly just wrongheaded.  Yet it has reigned in courts, classrooms, healthcare institutions, and bioethics as a kind of ‘Cruzan paradigm’ to this day.

On November 12th and 13th 2010, bioethicists, legal scholars, clinical researchers, moral theologians and other thought leaders will return to “the epicenter” – Kansas City – where PSDA and the “clear and convincing evidence” standards have deep roots, to reflect on 20 years of Cruzan bioethics’ impact on the most vulnerable among us, and to look to the future.
For more information

To register: http://www.cruzan.bioethics.net or call 816-979-1357