Lectures in Bioethics
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2010 Lectures
Eugenics, Race and Bioethics
Glenn McGee, PhD
June 4, 2010
1 hour 27 minutes 52 seconds
Are you well-born? That’s one of the questions addressed in this May 26, 2010 lecture presented by Glenn McGee, PhD, the John B. France Chair in Bioethics at the Center for Practical Bioethics.
Entitled “The Perfect Baby - Eugenics, Race and Bioethics,” Dr. McGee’s lecture examines how eugenics was more - much more - than Nazis killing Jews during World War II.
The lecture was delivered in conjunction with Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race- a traveling exhibition on loan from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.
The Missing Element in Healthcare Reform: Medicare Cost Curve at the End of Life OR The Economics of Healthcare for Older Americans -- From Virtue to Voodoo and Back Again
Perry Fine, MD, Professor of Anesthesiology, School of Medicine, University of Utah, presented this lecture during the annual bioethics symposium April 14, 2010.
To Screen or Not to Screen?
Ethical Controversies in Mammography Screening
In November, 2009 the United States Preventive Services Task Force released a report questioning the merits of routine mammography screening.
Recommendations from the report have sparked criticism among women's advocacy groups and medical professionals alike. But is such criticism deserved?
A panel of experts helped illuminate the facts and values behind all sides of this heated issue during a public forum on March 24, 2010. Forum panelists included:
- J. Tony Madeira, MD, mammography radiologist, Saint Luke's Health System
- Summer Johnson, PhD, executive editor, American Journal of Bioethics
- Karin McCrary, RN, BSN, Senior Director of Operations, Saint Luke's Cancer Institute
- Ian M. Rosbrugh, M.D. , F.A.C.O.G., Heartland Women's Health Care
- Kari Miller, grants and education coordinator, Susan G. Komen Foundation,
- Kansas City Stephen Salanski, MD, Program Director, Research Family Medicine Residency
Terry Rosell, PhD, the Rosemary Flanigan Chair at the Center for Practical Bioethics, moderated the program.
The Ethics of Living Forever
Glenn McGee, PhD
Francis Chair in Bioethics
February 24, 2010
58 minutes 20 seconds
Is it ethical for individuals, or for society generally, to take advantage of technologies that will change our entire notion of what it means to age? Is it okay to want to live forever?
Those questions were addressed by Glenn McGee, PhD, the Francis Chair at the Center for Practical Bioethics, during a lecture February 24 in Kansas City.
25th Anniversary Lecture Series
Why People Still Suffer at the End of Life
Myra Christopher
President/CEO
Center for Practical Bioethics
1 hour 2 minutes 26 seconds
People who are seriously ill still suffer needlessly. In this December 9, 2009 lecture Myra Christopher of the Center for Practical Bioethics explores the root causes of this problem and why we as a society are so resistant to change.
Medical Professionalism: What's trust (not truth) got to do with it?
Gary Pettett, MD
November 10, 2009
55 minutes 1 second
The physician patient relationship is changing, as is the concept of medical professionalism. Is it time to redefine what we mean by medical professionalism? And how will that affect your relationship with your doctor?
Gary Pettett, MD, a neonatologist and a Fellow at the Center for Practical Bioethics, explains in this lecture November 10, 2009.
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I'm dying, STAT! Call my...lawyer?
William Colby, JD
October 14, 2009
58 minutes 59 seconds
On December 6, 1989, Bill Colby walked to the podium of the Supreme Court of the United States to plead the case of his client, Nancy Cruzan. Seven months later, our country had a new constitutional right - what the media dubbed the "right to die."
In this lecture, Bill reflects on that December morning from long ago. He talked about what the right to die means today, as society struggles to understand how to best use medicines and technologies that were the stuff of science fiction writers in 1989.
Today, Bill Colby is the General Counsel for the Truman Medical Centers in Kansas City. He is also a long-time friend of the Center for Practical Bioethics and a former Senior Fellow at the Center.
What happens to Jesus if I donate my heart?
Terry Rosell, PhD, DMin
Rosemary Flanigan Chair
September 23, 2009
59 minutes
Dr. Terry Rosell, the Rosemary Flanigan Chair at the Center for Practical Bioethics, talks about bridging faith and medicine, philosophy and theology, religion and culture around the issue of organ donation and transplantation. The lecture was delivered September 23 as part of the Center’s 25th Anniversary Lecture Series.
The Role of Conscience in Medical Decisions
Daniel Sulmasy, OFM, MD, PhD
Does conscience ever clash with professional duties? What do we mean by terms such as 'conscience' and 'conscientious objection'? How should one approach a request from a patient that conflicts with one's individual conscience?
In this the 15th Annual Flanigan Lecture, Dr. Daniel Sulmasy of the University of Chicago discusses how medical professionals can strive to preserve their moral integrity while also respecting and serving patients with whom they might have deep moral disagreements.
Religion. Healthcare. Do the Twain Meet?
Sister Rosemary Flanigan
July 8, 2009
1 hour 6 seconds
What does it mean to have a “religious consciousness” and how does having such a consciousness affect our thinking as we deal with life and death issues as well as a host of bioethical issues facing us today?
In this lecture, Rosemary Flanigan, PhD explores how religion may affect healthcare policy. The lecture was part of the Center for Practical Bioethics 25th Anniversary Connecting the Dots Lecture Series.
You Got It and Can’t Get Over It: Chronic Disease and Aging
John Carney
June 3, 2009
1 hour 6 seconds
The overwhelming majority of Americans will die of complications from a chronic disease. How does a consumer become a self-advocate and prepare for a time and place that we’d prefer never occur? Who is to judge when frail patients can no longer reliably judge for themselves?
This lecture took place on June 3, 2009 at the Kauffman Foundation in Kansas City, Missouri.
Link: Overview, John Carney, You Tube, June 11, 2 minutes 32 seconds
Remove Hot Button Issues from Public Discourse
John C. Danforth
May 7, 2009
Senator John Danforth suggests removing hot button social issues from the center of political combat. “Where public opinion is sharply divided, we could decide not to decide,” he says. “We could keep the issues open, at least for a time, and continue talking and put off the day when courts or legislatures pick winners and losers.”
Danforth made the remarks May 7 during the 25th Anniversary Dinner of the Center for Practical Bioethics in Kansas City, Missouri.
A Physician’s Reflections on Bioethics
Robert Potter, MD
April 6, 2009
Dr. Robert Potter was a revered physician and medical educator in Kansas City for 30 years before moving to Oregon in 2004. In the decade prior to his departure, he served as a scholar and consultant for the Center for Practical Bioethics.
Myra Christopher, CEO of the Center, provides the introduction and wrapup remarks for this one hour lecture.
Bioethics Symposium
May 8, 2009
National leaders shared their expertise and analysis of controversial issues in bioethics on May 8, the morning after the Center's annual dinner. Audio podcasts of those presentations are available via the links below.
Presenters and Podcasts
Pediatric Research – Money, Motives and Morals
Eric Kodish, MD
F.J. O'Neill Professor and Chairman
Department of Bioethics, Cleveland Clinic Foundation
Podcast -- 37 minutes 34 seconds
Ethical Issues Related to Organ Donation After Cardiac Arrest
David Magnus, PhD
Director, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics
Associate Professor, Division of Medical Genetics
Podcast -- 43 minutes 39 seconds
Legalization of Physician Aid in Dying: An Inevitability, An Error, or Both?
Alan Meisel, JD
Director, Center for Bioethics and Health Law
Dickie, McCamey & Chilcote Professor of Bioethics
Professor of Law and Psychiatry
University of Pittsburgh
Podcast -- 42 minutes 7 seconds
The World According to Autism: Ethical and Social Issues in the Condition that is Reshaping Humanity
Glenn McGee, PhD
Editor-in-Chief, American Journal of Bioethics
Director, Institute for Ethics and Autism
Podcast – 32 minutes 54 seconds
Genetics, Jewish Diseases & Personalized Medicine
Genetic Testing and Jewish Identity - Do our genes tell us who we are?
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Tay-Sachs and Sickle Cell - Different cultures, different responses to genetic testing
Keith Wailoo - Rutgers University - Sociologist
Recreational Genetic Testing: Navigating Personal Identity in a Genomic Age
Barbara Koenig - Mayo College of Medicine- Anthropologist
Genetic testing from a traditional Jewish perspective - can testing before marriage help?
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What does it mean to be told that you (or your child) has a bad gene?
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Personalized Medicine and the cost of health care. Will individualized diagnosis and treatment raise costs, improve quality, or become a boutique commodity?
Noam Zohar - Bar Ilan University, Israel - Rabbi and Philosopher
Stephen Spielberg- Children's Mercy Hospital Pharmacogeneticist
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Why do bad genes persist?
Henry Harpending - University of Utah - Anthropologist
Alan Redd - University of Kansas- Anthropologist
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Can we redesign ourselves? If so, would we do it well? Thoughts of a genetics consumer.
David Ewing Duncan- Journalist and Bioethicist
Eugenics, arranged marriages, and gene therapy: Responses to genetic disease
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Individuals, culture and biology: what does the future hold?
Laurie Zoloth - Northwestern University - Bioethicist
John Lantos- Children's Mercy Hospital - Pediatrician
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Healthcare Reform 2009: Truth, Justice and the American Way
Good Ethics Start with Good Facts
October 6, 2009
The Center kicked off Healthcare Reform 2009: Truth, Justice and the American Way with a public forum October 6 entitled, “Good Ethics Starts with Good Facts.” Below are links to presentations delivered during this session.
Health Coverage for All
October 13, 2009
The second of four public forums on healthcare reform sponsored by the Center for Practical Bioethics took place October 13, 2009 in Kansas City.
The focus – health coverage for all. Steve Roling of the Healthcare Foundation of Greater Kansas City provided the keynote address. A responder panel included the following:
- Rex Archer, MD, MPH, Director, Kansas City, Missouri Health Department
- George Flanagan, DMin, MA, program associate, Center for Practical Bioethics
- William Pankey, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Swope Health Services
- Keith Wisdom, CFO, United Healthcare Midwest
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Bending the Cost Curve
October 20, 2009
Bending the cost curve was the focus of the third of four public forums on healthcare reform sponsored by the Center for Practical Bioethics. The October 20th forum featured a keynote address from Marcia Nielsen, PhD, Vice Chancellor of Public Policy & Planning at the University of Kansas Medical Center.
A responder panel included the following:
- Tom Handley, FSA, MAAA, L& E Actuaries and Consultants
- Rene Bollier, MD, Kansas City Family Medical Care
John Lantos, MD, John B. Francis Chair in Bioethics at the Center for Practical Bioethics and director of Children's Mercy Bioethics Center, served as a panelist and moderator.
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Systems Reform and Innovation
October 27, 2009
The fourth and final in a series of forums on healthcare reform sponsored by the Center for Practical Bioethics took place on October 27 at the Community Christian Church in Kansas City. The session focused on systems reform and innovation. Robert F. St. Peter, MD, president and CEO of the Kansas Health Institute, was the keynote speaker.
A responder panel featured the following:
- Tom Cranshaw, MBA, Tri County Mental Health Services
- Karen L. Miller, RN, PhD, FA, Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs and dean, University of Kansas School of Nursing
- Gary Pettett, MD, Children's Mercy Hospital, Office of Research Integrity, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
Terry Rosell, PhD, DMin of the Center for Practical Bioethics served as facilitator.
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Healthcare Reform Needed but Comes Hard
Steven Schroeder, MD
July 31, 2008
Health care reform comes hard because we didn't get to where we are by accident.That's according to Steven Schroeder, MD, Distinguished Professor of Health and Health Care at the University of California - San Francisco and former president and CEO of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation.
Dr. Schroeder spoke before more than 200 people at the 14th Annual Flanigan Lecture on July 31, 2008.
Miscellaenous
Celebrating with Frontliners
Hob Osterlund, RN
34 minutes 39 seconds
The Center for Practical Bioethics honored nurses, social workers, chaplains and allied health professionals with Frontline Action Awards during activities September 8, 2009 in Kansas City.
The event recognized professionals who work directly with patients and families in a healthcare setting.
Hob Osterlund, RN, palliative care nurse and nationally known humorist, presented her unique approach to health care before an audience of more than 200 people.
