Category / Blog
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Kathy Greenlee’s Reflections on Paths to Person-Centered Planning
Healthcare professionals hear from various disabled people about how they could be better supported.
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Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Presents Big Ideas in End-of-Life Care
Former Secretary Sebelius will speak at the Center for Practical Bioethics Annual Dinner on end-of-life care.
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Home Birth, Hospital Birth, and the Myth of the Good Mother – Reflections from a Bad Mother
In an upcoming lecture with the Center for Practical Bioethics the ethics of having a homebirth.
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The Affordable Care Act: It will not depart the same way it entered.
The Affordable Care Act has moved but the budget may stop where it is.
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Chronic Pain and the Opioid Epidemic: Wicked Issues Have No Simple Solutions
An ethical balance has not been found between those who suffer from chronic pain and the prescribing of opioids to them.
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Bishop Tutu’s Plea Prompts Personal Meditation on Assisted Suicide
Everyone does not agree on the ethics of physician-assisted suicide which creates a topic of continuing discussion.
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The High Costs of Chasing Immortality
President and CEO of the Center for Practical Bioethics will present a lecture that will discuss the link between the use of new drugs and extending the inevitable.
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PAINS Update
Many people must endure chronic pain and PAIN-KC is hoping to help bring more awareness to it.
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A Selfish Request for Honest Conversations
Having a loved one in ill condition can be stressful. Rev. Shanna recommends taking the time to have a conversation about their wishes in case of unfortunate circumstances.
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Mothers’ Luscious Webs of Love – in Life and Death
The Center for Practical Bioethics hosted their annual dinner where they heard from speaker Will Schwalbe and his book discussing his mother