Etienne Mullet, director of the
Laboratory “Cognition & Decision” of the EPHE (Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes) in Toulouse, France, will speak on “Physician-Assisted Suicide and
Euthanasia: A French Perspective” on Tuesday, Oct. 28,
at 4:30
p.m. in Humanities 019 at Union College.
The talk is free and open to the public.
Mullet, a frequent commentator on a sensational
current legal case in France, also served as
professor of psychology at the University Charles-de-Gaulle. His
research interests include how people integrate information, perception of
risks, forgiveness, and end-of-life decision making. He has a number of papers
under publication on topics including the acceptability of ending a patient's
life, physician-assisted suicide and the acceptability of euthanasia.
The talk is sponsored by the
Center for Bioethics and Clinical Leadership of the Graduate College of Union
University, the Hewlett Foundation grant for General Education Science,
the Departments of Philosophy and Political Science
of Union College and the Pre-health Society of Union College.