The back cover text of Els van Wijngaarden’s dissertation Ready to give up on life goes as follows. Older people who consider their lives to be ‘completed’, who suffer from the prospect of having to live on and therefore prefer a self-chosen death: it’s not a new issue. What is relatively new, though, is the current Dutch debate about whether we should legalize, facilitate and institutionalize assisted dying in such cases. Continue reading Elderly people, ‘completed lives’, and ‘assisted dying’
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Master class “Practical wisdom beyond rule obedience”
This master class is relevant to professionals in the fields of care, social work and education, especially for those who just sensibly do what they think that has to be done, and become tired of the way they have to explain it and account for it. The spoken language is Dutch. More information here
Beneath the surface of the liberal Netherlands
BBC Newsnight reporter Gabriel Gatehouse leaves for Amsterdam. The national elections are coming. Reports on ruling Dutch populism puzzle him. Continue reading Beneath the surface of the liberal Netherlands
(Self-)representation; One for All, All for One?
A workshop to address ethical, sociological and normative-political questions concerning the assumption that patient organizations (POs) represent a larger group of affected persons and the justification of advocacy by others. Continue reading (Self-)representation; One for All, All for One?
Ethics and Social Welfare in Hard Times
The organizers of the conference ‘Ethics and Social Welfare in Hard Times’ in London, Sept. 1-2, 2016 have published an evaluation of the results. Continue reading Ethics and Social Welfare in Hard Times
Art & psychiatry
The nine symptoms that were indicated in the DSM IV as typical of borderline personality disorder say a lot about the current state of society. At the exhibition Borderline Times the focus shifts from the individual to the collective.