SELECTED SCHIAVO AND RELATED WEB LINKS  

Below you will find a list of selected Schiavo and related Web links. Additions, comments, and suggestions are welcome. Help us keep this information up-to-date by reporting incorrect or broken web links to ethics@miami.edu.  

  • CT scans showing, left, a normal brain and, right, Ms. Schiavo's brain, giving evidence of extensive cortical regions filled with spinal fluid. The image on the right was made in 2002. The bright spot near the center is an intrathalmic stimulator placed in her brain in December 1990 in San Francisco, when her husband was seeking aggressive medical treatment.
  • Florida's "advance directive" statute addresses issues related to surrogates and proxies, PVS, living wills, pain management, etc.  
  • LifeNews.com is an "independent news agency specifically devoted to reporting news that affects the pro-life community." One of the menu item features "bioethical issues," with a number of Schiavo-related items. 
  • Not Dead Yet, a disability rights organization, filed an amicus brief in the case and issued a number of other statements criticizing hospice and other end-of-life care organizations and movements. 
  • Robert Wood Johnson Foundation resources on end-of-life care. The foundation's Last Acts program closed in 2005.
  • "Terri's Fight," the  website of the Terri Schindler-Schiavo Foundation. 

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