The Florida Case Of Terri Schiavo; 400 Years Of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, And Heroines; FilmWeek
The Florida Case Of Terri Schiavo
Guest host Patt Morrison discusses the case of Terri Schiavo who has been in a persistent vegetative state for 13 years following cardiac arrest. Her husband, Michael and her parents are at odds over whether or not to remove her feeding tube to allow her to die. Patt is joined by experts Neil Wenger, MD, UCLA professor of Medicine and Health Services Research. A national expert in quality of life issues, and John Peter Gruen , MD, Associate Professor of Clinical Neurological Surgery, Keck School of Medicine at USC.
400 Years Of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates, And Heroines
In her new social history, America's Women: Four Hundred Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines, Gail Collins, the first woman to head up the New York Times editorial pages, surveyed American women going back four hundred years from the lives of colonial housewives to the can do everything women of the 21st century. Patt Morrison talks with Gail Collins about America‰Þªs women and their "struggle to straighten out the perpetually mixed messages about women's role that was accepted by almost everybody of both genders."
FilmWeek
Guest host John Rabe and critics Andy Klein, film editor and chief critic of both CityBeat and ValleyBeat, Peter Rainer of New York Magazine and Charles Solomon, animation critic for amazon.com discuss this week's new film releases, including In the Cut, Elephant, Brother Bear, The Singing Detective, The Party's Over, Bus 174, and To Be and to Have.