What does it mean to be a person? What does it mean to have autonomy? To live well, or to die well? Maybe these questions keep you up at night, or maybe you've never considered them at all. In either case, whether you're a healthcare professional, a patient, or a family member or friend of either, these questions and their answers become pertinent in all of our lives at some point. Join Callie in her conversation with Dr. Jason Whitt, senior lecturer in Medical Humanities and the Honors College at Baylor University, and Dr. Abby Fahnestock, pediatric resident at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, as they discuss these questions, the ways our culture has attempted to answer them, and the implications therein.

For further reading, texts referenced in this conversation include:

- The Finest Traditions of My Calling - Abraham M. Nussbaum

- Principles of Biomedical Ethics - Tom L. Beauchamp & James F. Childress

- Receiving the Gift of Friendship: Profound Disability, Theological Anthropology, and Ethics - Hans S. Reinders

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