Susan M. Wolf

McKnight Presidential Professor of Law, Medicine & Public Policy at the University of Minnesota,

Susan M. Wolf is McKnight Presidential Professor of Law, Medicine & Public Policy at the University of Minnesota, and a Faculty Member in the University’s Center for Bioethics.

Posts by Susan M. Wolf
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Dying: Closing the Gap between What We Know and What We Do

Time is running out on fixing the way we die. As readers of this blog know, the courts first declared a right to refuse unwanted life-sustaining treatment in the 1976 Quinlan case....
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“When Law, Ethics & Medicine Collide: Considering Medical Aid in Dying”

University of Minnesota presents: Ten states and the District of Columbia currently have statutes on the books or a court decision that authorizes medical aid in dying (often called MAID) for adults...
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Ethics and Research in Resource-Poor Countries

Selected resources from The Hastings Center. Bioethics Briefings: Research in Resource-Poor Countries As health problems and disease threats cross borders on a global scale, wealthy countries are increasingly funding and...
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Ethics and the Family Caregiving

Selected resources from The Hastings Center. Bioethics Briefings: Family Caregiving The central philosophical question in family caregiving is how to best support infrastructures of care in times where changes in...
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Ethics and the End of Life

Selected resources from The Hastings Center. Bioethics Briefings: End of Life Care The central philosophical question in end-of-life care is how to make decisions surrounding the numerous choices about what...
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Ethics and Aging

Selected resources from The Hastings Center. Bioethics Briefings: AgingThere is a steady rise in world population growth with the fastest proportional increase coming from the elderly. Technological advances in medicine...
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The Hastings Center Bioethics Timeline

“Bioethics” has been defined in several different ways. Most broadly, it is the interdisciplinary study of ethical, legal, and social issues arising in the life sciences and health care. Though...
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Access to Therapeutic and Palliative Drugs in the Context of Covid-19: Justice and the Relief of Suffering

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Ethical Framework for Health Care Institutions & Guidelines for Institutional Ethics Services Responding to the Coronavirus Pandemic

Managing Uncertainty, Safeguarding Communities, Guiding Practice Download as PDF Nancy Berlinger, PhD; Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH; Tia Powell, MD; D. Micah Hester, PhD; Aimee Milliken, RN, PhD, HEC-C; Rachel Fabi,...
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Why We Give

Why I Give… Ann Margaret Mayer, Ed.M., M.L.S. Ann Margaret Mayer was a curious and creative lifelong learner who loved science and history—as well as world travel, gardening, knitting, and...
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