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School of Nursing Tackles Ethical Issues Around End-of-Life Research
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For Immediate Release Contacts:
Mary Pattock, School of Nursing (patto017@umn.edu, 612.624.0939)
Liz Bryan, Academic Health Center (612.624.5680) UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA SCHOOL OF NURSING TACKLES ETHICAL ISSUES AROUND END-OF-LIFE RESEARCH | WHAT: | | This year, the Florence Schorske Wald Lectureship in Palliative and Hospice Care presents "Ethical Quandaries in End-of-Life Research". Barbara Daly, Ph.D., R.N., FAAN, Director of the Clinical Ethics Program at the University Hospitals of Cleveland, and Associate Professor in the School of Nursing at Case Western Reserve University, will discuss the need to better understand the issues associated with conducting research on dying patients and their families. This provocative session will address the challenges and serious moral issues raised by this research, and how the medical community can approach this intractable and perhaps unsolvable problem. | | | | | | WHEN: | | Wednesday, April 5, 2006
4:00 p.m.
Registration begins at 3:30 p.m., with a reception following the presentation | | | | | | WHERE: | | Coffman Memorial Union, Mississippi Room
300 Washington Ave. S.E.
Parking available in the East River Road parking ramp | | | | | | BACKGROUND: | | The annual lectureship was established in 1997 to honor Florence Schorske Wald, who is credited with bringing the hospice movement to the United States from England. The intent of the Wald Lectureship is to provoke new thinking and stimulate dialogue and collaboration between the world of academia and practice, and the university and the community. The lecture is free and open to the public. Registration is required. Please register at www.nursing.umn.edu/WaldLecture or contact Aneisha Tucker at tucke127@umn.edu for further information. |
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