Seminar: “Does Lethal Language lead to Lethal Treatment? End-of-Life Issues”
Consortium for Culture and Medicine Seminar
Friday, March 28, 2014
4 to 5 pm
Room 1507/1508 Setnor Academic Building
766 Irving Ave
“Does Lethal Language lead to Lethal Treatment? End-of-Life Issues”
William J. Peace, PhD
We will discuss the decision-making strategies that take place immediately after devastating injuries, focusing in particular on decisions to remove patients from life-sustaining treatment. Of particular interest are patient autonomy, the notion of dignity, terminal sedation, and VSED (voluntary suspension of eating and drinking). The story of Timothy Bowers, the hunter who was taken off life-sustaining treatment twenty-four hours after experiencing a devastating spinal cord injury, will serve as a test case.
Free and open to the public
Access
Wheelchair accessible; ASL interpreter provided upon request (contact Lois Dorschel at dorschel@upstate.edu).
Information
For information, contact Consortium Coordinator Lois Dorschel at dorschel@upstate.edu or Executive Director Rebecca Garden, PhD, at gardenr@upstate.edu or 315-464-8451.
Consortium for Culture and Medicine Faculty Seminars
The Consortium for Culture and Medicine is collaboration among Le Moyne College, Syracuse University, and Upstate Medical University that brings together faculty and students from disparate fields to teach and conduct research on social, ethical, and cultural aspects of health care. The Consortium’s Seminar Series encourages faculty, students, and interested community members to speak across disciplinary boundaries on urgent topics that interweave discourses and professional and social perspectives. For more information, see: http://upstate.edu/ccm.
Location
The Setnor Academic Building is an extension on the north side of Weiskotten Hall, 766 Irving Ave., at the intersection of Waverly and Irving, on the west side of Irving, just north of Waverly.
Parking
There is limited metered parking on Elizabeth Blackwell Street near University Hospital, and along Irving Avenue near Weiskotten and Silverman Halls and the Health Sciences Library. Visitors may wish to park at one of two public garages on Irving Avenue. (Take Adams Street to Irving Avenue. Turn right. The garages are on the left side of the street between Adams Street and Waverly Avenue.)
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