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What is the Place of Sedation in the Care at the End of Life?

Friday, October 14, 2016, 8AM | 3rd Floor Lecture Hall , University of Chicago Divinity School

The Program on Medicine and Religion at the University of Chicago and the Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion Present the first of a four-part annual series on Dying a Christian Death in the 21st Century: Moral Controversies in Care at the End of Life entitled, “What is the Place of Sedation in the Care at the End of Life?” The conference series is sponsored by the McDonald Agape Foundation.

Farr Curlin, MD, TMC’s Co-Director, will be presenting a talk on “Palliative Sedation: Clinical Facts and Ethical Questions.”

Other Speakers include:

Thomas Cavanaugh, PhD, University of San Francisco
Douglas Farrow, PhD, McGill University
John Hardt, PhD, Loyola University Chicago
Gilbert Meilaender, PhD, Valparaiso University
Daniel Sulmasy, MD, PhD, University of Chicago
Henk ten Have, MD, PhD, Duquesne University

The conference is free and open to the public. To learn more, view a full schedule,  and register, click here.

PMR Conference Poster Oct 14, 2016

Details

Date:
October 14, 2016
Time:
8:00 am - 4:30 pm
Website:
http://pmr.uchicago.edu/events/dying-a-christian-death/Conf1

Organizers

Program on Medicine and Religion at the University of Chicago
The Martin Marty Center for the Advanced Study of Religion at the University of Chicago Divinity School

Venue

3rd Floor Lecture Hall , University of Chicago Divinity School
1025 E 58th St
Chicago, IL 60637 United States
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