Judith Areen, Warren Reich, Cecil Sheps, and Robert Veatch consider questions about bioethical issues such as euthanasia, the right to informed consent, and patient competency. Who would participate in the process of medical decision making? Recent advances in biotechnology notwithstanding, do we live in an atmosphere of realistic expectations about professional ethics and medical practices?
At the time of this discussion, Areen was professor of law at Georgetown University. Reich, a Fellow at the National Humanities Center (1982-83), was professor of bioethics in the School of Medicine at Georgetown University. Sheps was professor of medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Veatch was professor at the Center for Bioethics at Georgetown University.
This edition of Soundings was conducted by Wayne J. Pond.
