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 International Bioethics Education Program
Instructors: William J. Winslade, Ph.D., J.D., Stuart J. Youngner, M.D., Gerrit K. Kimsma, M.D., M.Ph.
Is it ever permissible for physicians to kill their patients? In the Netherlands, the answer is yes. In the United States, it is no. Are the Dutch sliding down a moral slippery slope? Are the Americans compromising the rights and dignity of dying patients? This 3-credit course is a unique opportunity to examine a range of Dutch and American end-of-life policies and practices with special focus on the unique ethical, cultural, religious, and legal contexts in which they developed. It will be taught by three scholars whose work in end-of-life care has received international recognition.
Course Aims
This course will compare how two liberal democracies, the United States and the Netherlands, have handled difficult end-of-life issues, including:
• The Dutch regulation of euthanasia;
• Regulation of physician-assisted suicide in the state of Oregon;
• Terminal sedation;
• End-of-life decisions in newborns;
• Withholding and withdrawing of artificially-provided fluids and nutrition;
• The legal basis for end-of-life decision making in the USA;
• Palliative care and hospice;
• Public trust in medicine and physicians.
The course is open to undergraduates interested in: careers in the health professions; moral philosophy; law; cross-cultural issues. Participation in class discussions is mandatory and will constitute 10% of the grade. Students will be given a bibliography of articles available on line and will be required to read portions of two books. Two weeks before the course, an annotated bibliography of the readings must be turned in. This will count for 20% of the grade. A 10-page paper will be assigned during the course, and will be due by September 15, 2010. It will count for 70% of the grade.
All students must register for Summer 2010 credit. Case tuition is half-price in the summer.
Additional course information (everything you need to know):
Euthasia Course August 2010
Dutch Visa Information
March 2010 courses
March 2010 courses take place March 8-12, trip March 5-14.
- BETH 315/415: French Perspectives on Controversies at the Beginning and End of Life-Paris, France
- BETH 315/415: Public Health Ethics: Focus on the Netherlands
- BETH 315/415: Ethical Issues in Public Health and Genetics(Buenos Aires, Argentina)
- BETH 315/415: International Women's Health Issues: Focus on Netherlands
- BETH 315/415: Mental Health Ethics--"Stigma, Deinstitutionalization, and the Severely Mentally Ill: European and American Experiences"
- BETH 315/415: European Perspectives on Bioethics--Salamanca, Spain
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