]> http://caringcommunity.org/taxonomy/view/or/51 en http://caringcommunity.org/node/view/372 <p><strong>How Hospitals Shape End of Life Care</strong> <br /> Summary of Sharon. Kaufman, PhD Presentation to<br /> California Coalition for Compassionate Care<br /> Steering Committee Meeting June 3, 2005 <br /> Excerpted from Minutes of Meeting </p> <p>Sharon Kaufman, Ph.D. Professor of Medical Anthropology at UC San Francisco recently published a book entitled, <em>And a Time to Die: How American Hospitals Shape the End of Life.</em> (2005, NY: Scribner). Dr. Kaufman said in her role as a medical anthropologist she &#8220;makes the strange, familiar; and makes the familiar, strange.&#8221; She described her recent research about the culture of hospitals and how they influence the &#8220;problem of death,&#8221; which she defined as people dying with too much technology and not enough humanity.</p> Mon, 15 Jan 2007 08:18:25 -0800 http://caringcommunity.org/node/view/375 <p><strong>A Framework For Thinking Ethically</strong><br /> <em>Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University</em><br /> This document is designed as an introduction to thinking ethically. We all have an image of our &#8220;better selves&#8221; - or of how we are when we act ethically or are &#8220;at our best.&#8221; We probably also have an image of what an ethical community, an ethical business, or an ethical government is - and maybe even an ethical society as a whole. Ethics really has to do with all three levels - acting ethically as individuals, creating ethical organizations and governments, and making our society as a whole ethical in the way it treats all.</p> Thu, 3 Nov 2005 09:26:07 -0800