…atment must be balanced with protections against undertreatment. If we can talk about that, we can start a productive conversation. View/download PDF of PowerPoint Presentation (1.8 MB)…
…lowing the publicity surrounding the assisted suicide of Janet Adkins. The book in question – Prescription: Medicide: The Goodness of Planned Death – detailed Kevorkian’s history of advocacy regarding live, lethal human experimentation, which went otherwise unmentioned in the movie. Before he started aiding the suicides of oppressed, despairing ill, old and disabled people, Kevorkian was most well-known for his campaign to start a new “ethic” towa…
…I can point to – and read for myself. Adrian describes himself as a social commentator/researcher/person of hidden disabilities – and his blog covers a fairly wide range of topics. Two recent ones are centered on the assisted suicide/euthanasia debate in Canada. The full title of his blog is “Flanoor blog: observations on life.” Just yesterday, Adrian posted a response to an op-ed that appeared in the Toronto Star earlier this summer. Here’s an ex…
…ation on Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present (2007) https://www.amazon.com/Medical-Apartheid-Experimentation-Americans-Colonial/dp/076791547X [2] Monika K. Goyal, MD, MSCE, et al., Racial Disparities in Pain Management of Children With Appendicitis in Emergency Departments (2016), https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4829078/#:~:text=Black%20children%20had%20one%2Dfifth,in%20the%20ED%20was%20low [3] Kelly M. Hoffman, Sophie…
…and Julian meet when he stops in Charleston, South Carolina to promote his book and visit his aging mother, Hannah. Julian’s book describes the short life of his youngest sister who died of a neuromuscular disease. Julian’s mother Hannah has mild dementia and is living with her daughter. Julian often uses the threat of sending her to a nursing home as a lever to force Hannah to behave. The actor playing Elora does a very good job, but she does not…
