Volume 71 Number 6 November 2004	back to contents

Seminar in Medical Ethics sponsored by the Bioethics Section of the Department of Humanities and Community Medicine of Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA, on September 28, 2001.

Address all correspondence to Martin H Savitz, M.D., 30 Old Phillips Hill Road, New City, NY 10956; e-mail: drbcasey@aol.com

The material in this discussion has been edited and condensed. Accepted for publication March 2004.

ABSTRACT

A visiting scholar from the School of Philosophy of Leeds University, England, was invited to participate in a seminar at the Section of Bioethics of Drexel University School of Medicine, which discussed (a) ethical differences between socialized and HMO systems, (b) physician-assisted suicide, (c) reproductive technology, (d) triage and rationing, and (e) organ donation and sale.

KEY WORDS

Medical ethics, HMO, socialized medicine, physician-assisted suicide, reproductive technology, triage, rationing, organ donation, ethics.

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