Events › Issues in Medical Ethics: Treating Children

This is the rescheduled second session of "Issues in Medical Ethics" originally set for May 22, but postponed due to the illness of our presenter.

Your instructor for this two-session mini-course is Mark Sheldon, Distinguished Senior Lecturer Emeritus in Philosophy at Northwestern University and member of the faculty of the Medical Ethics and Humanities Program at Northwestern's Feinberg School of Medicine.

This second session will be devoted to children and the decisions we tend to allow parents to make, and the limitations that the state places on those decisions. What are the rights or interests of children versus the prerogatives of parents, versus the protections that the state wants to impose? Discussion will focus on parental refusal on religious grounds of certain medical interventions, as well as vaccines.

This mini-course will take place both in person--in the Community Meeting Room--and online as a webinar. Registration is required. All registered participants will receive the webinar link 1-2 weeks before the event and may then choose either participation type, with no need to let the organizers know. No cancellation is required.

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