Dr. Gerrit Kimsma, general
practitioner and professor in medical ethics at the Free University of
Amsterdam, the Netherlands, will speak on “Euthanasia and End-of-Life Care in
the Netherlands” on Monday, Oct. 25, at 4:45
p.m. in Humanities 019 at Union College.
The talk, sponsored by the Center for Bioethics and the
Philosophy Department at Union, is free and open to the
public.
Kimsma, a Dutch physician who
supports euthanasia, is co-founder and president of
the Dutch society of Philosophy and Medicine, and co-founding member of the
European Society of Philosophy of Medicine and Health Care.
Chalmers
Clark,visiting scholar at Yale University and visiting professor at Union, will
provide commentary.
For more
information, call 388-8045.