Are Quality of Life Judgements Ethical? | Prof. Gina Maria Noia

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🗓️ 25 June 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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This lecture was given on November 8th, 2024, at University of Virginia.

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About the Speaker:

Gina Maria Noia, PhD, is an Assistant Professor of Theology at Providence College. She received her PhD in Theology and Health Care Ethics from Saint Louis University. She has served as a clinical ethicist for OSF Saint Francis Medical Center in Peoria, IL and St. Alexius Hospital in St. Louis, MO, and she is published in Christian Bioethics and the Journal of Moral Theology. Outside of academia, you’ll find her spending time outdoors with her (philosopher) husband, Justin Noia, PhD, and their vivacious children.

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0:23.6	Hello everyone. Thanks so much for having me here.
0:27.6	The title of my talk is, our quality of life judgments, ethical.
0:33.6	I'd like to begin by telling you about a patient that I had, whom I'll call Anne,
0:40.9	Anne is 74 years old and presents with aspiration, pneumonia, and septic shock. She has
0:49.0	congestive heart failure, type 2, diabetes, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, pulmonary caeccia, hypertension,
0:57.7	and a history of stroke, sepsis, and respiratory failure. She had a G-2 placed about six
1:03.6	months ago due to ongoing malnutrition. Since that time, she has been in and out of the hospital
1:09.5	with increasing frequency for serious bacterial infections.
1:13.8	She has difficulty clearing secretions and great difficulty walking.
1:19.3	What do you think about Anne's quality of life?
1:25.3	Yes.
1:27.4	It's painful. Other thoughts. Yes. It's painful.
1:28.3	Other thoughts.
1:31.3	Okay.
1:32.3	Some people might say it's not worth living.
1:34.3	Okay.
1:35.3	Some people might think, or maybe many people would think it's not worth living.
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