best source is to contact the National Reference Centre for Bioethics
Literature at Georgetown Univ -- via the Georgetown webpage, email
[log in to unmask]  or by phone at 1-800-MED-ETHX (9-5 Eastern Std time)

Another option that has been used with good effect is the episode of Star
Trek: Next Generation in which Worf suffers a spinal injury that leaves him
paralyzed; he wants to commit suicide, a visiting doctor wants to try an
experimental therapy, and everybody else is trying to protect the patient.
Not exactly feminist issues per se, but it does dig nicely into
cross-cultural interpretations of injury, hope, etc. :-)

The classic video is of the Dax Cowart case (early/mid-1970's) - a young man
suffered massive burns and wanted to be left to die, but doctors, lawyers,
his mother, etc. all worked to save him. Several said "you can commit
suicide later if you want to, but we aren't giving up", and then they
rescued him after several suicide attempts. Decades later he is a successful
lawyer, married, and doing well, but still insists that he should not have
been made to suffer as he was at the time.  There are some more recent
articles updating his case in the Hastings Ctr Report a couple of years ago.

hope these help
Laura

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-----Original Message-----
From: Teresa Burke [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
Sent: Monday, November 11, 2002 6:54 AM
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Subject: Movie with paternalist issues?


Hi-

I'm not much of a movie buff, and I hope you can help me with my request.
I'm teaching a class on health care ethics, and we're currently looking at
paternalism
and the arguments for justifying paternalism.  I've been providing video
clips on some of the issues we covered, and I was hoping to do find a
video/popular
culture movie that deals with paternalism in some way.  (Ideally, one that
can be used
to illustrate some feminist issues...)  Any suggestions?  Does anyone know
whether a
list of movies with philosophical/bioethics themes exists?

Oh, and since I'm deaf, it'll have to be closed captioned (made post-1994)
or
subtitled.

Best,

Teresa


Teresa Blankmeyer Burke
Doctoral Student
University of New Mexico
Philosophy Dept.
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