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Show 'Panel on death' tonight A "Panel on Death" featuring four local rofessionals in medicine and sociology ill be presented Thursday at 7 p.m. in the hion ballroom by the Contemporary ass. Dr. James R. Swenson, chairman of the ivision of Physical Medicine and Rehabili-ition Rehabili-ition at the University College of ledicine will serve as the panel's modera-r. modera-r. ' Other panel members will include, Sister nne Josephine, administrator of Holy ross Hospital, Dr. Theodore H. Noehren, isociate professor of internal medicine at ie University Medical Center and Dr. i lenn M. Vernon, chairman of the Depart-V Depart-V lent of Sociology at the University. To Open Panel Dr. Noehren will open the panel with an splanation of biological death and raise ie question of the physician's relationship 3 the patient who is going to die. The fpe of communication a doctor has with ie person with an terminal disease will be iscussed. The ideas of the psychological and xial process of death will be outlined by lr. Vernon. He will reveal the numerous scial factors which influence or determine 'ho, in a given society, should live or 'hen, where and how they should die ccording to tabbos, rituals and other xial determinants. Stages In Incurable Disease Sister Anne Josephine will discuss the arious stages an incurable patient passes trough upon discovering that his death is nminent. Her speech will also center on ie role of the nurse and the hospital in ie course of inevitable death. Reflecting upon the implications and ossibilities of postponing death, Dr. wenson will reveal the histories of certain atients who have confronted the ex-ediency ex-ediency of death but who, through re-abilitation, re-abilitation, have postponed death and ontinued to make their lives meaningful. " Each panelist will speak for seven linutes, then the group will have a "give-nd-take" discussion open to questions rom the audience . |
