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Image: The Doctor's Visit, by Jan Steen, 1660s, via Wikimedia Commons.

A Physician’s Sacred Duty — To Care or to Kill?

As a hospice and palliative care physician for over twenty years, Dr. Howard Glicksman regularly cares for terminally ill patients. Read More ›
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Image: The Death of Socrates, by Jacques-Louis David, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons.

Weikart: The Dark History of Medicalized Killing

"Richard Weikart’s superb new book is a vitally important reply to the organized disposal of unwanted people." Read More ›
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Image: "Young woman holding a syringe" (1781), by Henri-Pierre Danloux, via Wikimedia Commons.

Richard Weikart: Medicine’s Descent From Healing to Killing

Dr. Weikart's book is a wide-ranging history of euthanasia and assisted suicide from ancient Greece to today.  Read More ›
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How Did We Get Here? New Book by Richard Weikart Tracks Rise of the Culture of Death

The Judeo-Christian tradition encouraged a culture of life, but the secular Enlightenment and Darwinian materialism have tugged us in a different direction. Read More ›
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Nurse or doctor give man support during recovery or loss. Caregiver holding hand of her sad senior patient and showing kindness while doing a checkup at a retirement, old age home or hospital
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Treating the “Patient as a Person”

We all have the right to refuse medical interventions. Read More ›

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