Programme, Reading List & Resources

Course programme 2022-23 - click  here
Reading list - click here

Reading List from Guy Schofield

Schofield G, Dittborn M, Huxtable R, Brangan E, Selman LE. Real-world ethics in palliative care: A systematic review of the ethical challenges reported by specialist palliative care practitioners in their clinical practice. Palliat Med. 2021 Feb;35(2):315-334. doi: 10.1177/0269216320974277. Epub 2020 Dec 10. PMID: 33302783; PMCID: PMC7897798. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33302783/

 

Schofield GM, Urch CE, Stebbing J, Giamas G. When does a human being die? QJM. 2015 Aug;108(8):605-9. doi: 10.1093/qjmed/hcu239. Epub 2014 Nov 28. PMID: 25434055. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25434055/

 

Schofield G, Baker I, Bullock R, et al, Palliative opioid use, palliative sedation and euthanasia: reaffirming the distinction, Journal of Medical Ethics 2020;46:48-50. https://jme.bmj.com/content/46/1/48

 

Huxtable R. Get out of jail free? The doctrine of double effect in English law. Palliative Medicine. 2004;18(1):62-68. doi:10.1191/0269216304pm855oa

 

Papanikitas A. Splitting hairs over the definition of murder: Thomas Aquinas and the doctrine of double effect. Clinical Ethics. 2009;4(4):211-212. doi:10.1258/ce.2009.009031

 

Papanikitas A. Ethics and law at the beginning and end of life, p47-68 (Chapter 4), in Papanikitas A, Crash course: Medical Ethics and Sociology (2nd edition), Mosby Elsevier, London 2013 (or any other medical ethics student text covering medical decisions at the end of life)

The Selwyn Lectures
Dr Tina Matthews (Winner of the Sydney Selwyn 2019) - Click here to listen
Lecture title: Medical Professionalism, Public Institutions and the Alder Hay Children's Organ Scandal

Dr Sara Dahlen (Winner of the Sydney Selwyn 2020) - Click here to listen
Lecture title: An examination of sex versus gender identity in the General Medical Council’s Tran Healthcare Ethical Advice

Professor Anthony Redmond (Highly Commended 2020) - Click here to listen
Lecture title: Medical Humanitarianism – Do motives matter?

Dr Mary Fletcher (Winner of the Sydney Selwyn 2021) - Click here to listen
Lecture title: Can the impact of the NHS on the environment be justified?

Dr Ellis Onwordi (Highly Commended 2021) - Click here to listen
Lecture title: Epistemic Injustice in Schizophrenia

Dr Lotte Elton (Winner of the Sydney Selwyn 2021) - Click here to listen
Lecture title: More care, less medicine: epistemic risk and non-epistemic values at the end of life

Dr Deniz Kaya (Highly Commended 2021) - Click here to listen
Lecture title: Surveillance, social contract, and 21st Century healthcare?

Dr Kathryn Millard (Winner of the Sydney Selwyn 2022) - Click here to listen and watch
Lecture title: Crowdfunding, ethics, and medical responsibility

Dr Koot Kotze (Highly Commended 2022) - Click here to listen and watch
Lecture title: Clinician-managers: the boundary of medical ethics?

Materials from Andrew
Plato's Euthyphro (http://classics.mit.edu/Plato/euthyfro.html