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To the uninitiated, bioethics can seem like an abstract, academic or intimidating concept. As the Center for Pr ...

Ryan Pferdehirt appeared in a KCTV5 story, “A blood test can detect 50 types of cancer, but it will cost ...

By Tarris Rosell, PhD, DMin Rosemary Flanigan Chair, Center for Practical Bioethics In this blog, Tarris (Terry) ...

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By Lindsey Jarrett, PhD, Director, Ethical AI Initiative, Center for Practical Bioethics For several decades no ...

James D. Stowe was in fourth grade on a museum field trip when an adult asked what he wanted to be when he grew ...

A personal message from John Carney Dear CPB Friend: “Thank you! I don’t k ...

A personal message from Ryan Pferdehirt Dear CPB Friend: As a clinical bioethi ...

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A personal message from Karen Bullock Dear CPB Friend: My work at Boston Colle ...

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Friends (that includes staff) and family came together on December 1 at Hallbrook Country Club for a gathering ...

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A personal message from Erika Blacksher Dear CPB Friend: Most Americans remain ...

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A personal message from Polo Camacho Dear CPB Friend: After earning my PhD in ...

A personal message from Lindsey Jarrett Dear CPB Friend: Like most people, whe ...

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Ann Karty was a student in the University of Missouri Kansas City’s innovative six-year B.A./M.D. program whe ...

Polo Camacho Late in the evening with Saturday Night Live on in the background, shortly after graduating from th ...

A Personal Message from Terry Rosell Dear CPB Friend: I am often asked about m ...

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Read about our 2022 justice and equity campaign, in times like these; updates on the Ethical AI project and Eth ...

September 2022 Monthly Email Newsletter September 2022 Bioethics Bulletin If you would like to receive these mo ...

Interns at the Center Give and Gain Practical Experience Internships at the Center for Practical Bioethics are, ...

John G. Carney: A Career in Ethics John Carney has always been fascinated by how people make decisions, in parti ...

How to Advance Health Equity in Your Community Social Determinants of Health This webinar on social determinant ...

President/CEO Position For only the second time in its 38-year history, the Center for Practical Bioethics invit ...

Democratic Deliberation Project Appears in Population Health Blog Erika Blacksher, the Center’s John B. Fr ...

August 2022 Monthly Email Newsletter August 2022 Bioethics Bulletin If you would like to receive these monthly ...

Ethical Considerations, Precepts, and Recommendations in a Post-Dobbs World Guidance at the Crossroads For 38 ye ...

Changing False Narratives in Public Health Nellie Kassebaum can’t stop thinking about the systemic nature of ...

Healthcare Ethics in the Era of Dobbs v Jackson (The Overturning of Roe v Wade)By Tarris (Terry) Rosell, PhD, DMin Rosem ...

America’s Nursing Crisis: Suggestions on What Should Be Done Questions were posed leading up to the 28th Annua ...

Ethical AI Initiative Appears in a BioNexus KC Blog Lindsey Jarrett, Principal Investigator and Program Directo ...

New careers often emerge from new technology. Clinical ethics is one of them. Clinical ethicists assist health professio ...

Art of the Wish: Hundreds Connect with Voices of the Unheard .image-placeholder > .custom-preloader-image { ...

CEO John Carney Honored by Missouri Hospice & Palliative Care Association Missouri Hospice & Palliative ...

Targeting the Uneven Burden of Kidney Disease on Black Americans Erika Blacksher Quoted in The New York Times Ar ...

Inaugural Dr. Richard Payne Palliative Care Leadership Award Recipient Announced The Hastings Center, in collab ...

Art of the Wish on Fox 4 News in Kansas City Art of the Wish on the Fox 4 Morning News in Kansas City Fox 4 N ...

Exhibit and Fundraiser at Leedy Voulkos Art Center: “Art of the Wish” “Exhibit and Fundraiser at Leedy ...

Art Exhibit Supporting the Center Celebrates Wishes of Older Adults “Art Exhibit Supporting the Center for ...

Exhibit Celebrating the Wishes of Elders Evokes Strong Emotions If you’ve lived in or around Kansas City lon ...

Pathways to Health Equity through Civic Engagement   The Center’s John B. Francis Chair, Erika Blackshe ...

Equitable Treatment and Care: Ethical AI Initiative Poised to Test Recommendations There is broad agreement ...

Bioethics Newsletter Winter-Spring 2022 Read about our 2022 annual event, Art of the Wish; updates on the Ethic ...

Magazine Article: Center for Practical Bioethics What Would Be Your Wish for Our World? March 1, 2022 Featur ...

MENTORING MEDICAL STUDENTS FOR RESEARCH IN THE MEDICAL HUMANITIES The Clendening-King Summer Research Fellowship The Cl ...

Brian Carter, MDVision to Action Award Goes to Pioneer in Pediatric Palliative Medicine and Ethics When Brian Ca ...

In Times Like These . . . What Should Bioethicists Do?By Tarris (Terry) Rosell, PhD, DMin Rosemary Flanigan Chair at the ...

The Center for Practical Bioethics, a Kansas City-based nonprofit recognized for its work in practical bioethics through ...

Man denied heart transplant because he won’t get vaccinated against COVID January 25, 2022 Featuring John ...

Becoming a Living Organ DonorA Path to Recovery and Meaning The first step in determining Lindsey Jarrett’s el ...

Sarah Rowland Townsend, a member of our Board of Directors and an extraordinary human being, died at her home i ...

Covid Outbreaks Devastated Prisons, but State Inmates’ Access to the Vaccine Varies Widely March 17, 2021 F ...

US experts tackle ethical dilemmas posed by the vaccine rollout March 15, 2021 Featuring Terry Rosell, PhD Al ...

Meatpacking plant workers prioritized for vaccines March 4, 2021 Featuring John Carney, CEO, and Terry Rosell ...

Cerner is helping create ‘COVID-19 passports.’ Will they be a reverse scarlet letter? February 28, 2021 F ...

Computer error blamed for people getting COVID-19 vaccine before they’re supposed to Featuring Terry Rosell, ...

The Coronavirus Is Pushing More People To Ponder If They’re Ready For Death August 24, 2020 Featuring J ...

The Center for Practical Bioethics is helping guide families and doctors during the pandemic August 18, 2020 ...

Our Inability to Hear and Breathe Freely – A message from Our Board and Staff June 5, 2020 ...

Erika Blacksher, PhD, Named Fourth John B. Francis Chair in Bioethics The Center for Practical Bioethics in K ...

Sunflower Foundation awards $200,000 grant to better understand elder abuse in Kansas The Sunflower Foundatio ...

Lifetime Achievement in Bioethics Center for Practical Bioethics Founding Executive Myra Christopher Honor ...

Former DHHS Assistant Secretary Joins the Center Staff A major boost to its three-decade commitment to ...

Rosemary Flanigan Named to Starr Women’s Hall of Fame The Center is honored that Rosemary Flanigan, PhD, as ...

KCP&L Offers New Employee Benefit Now, a group of KCP&L employees have somewhere to turn for consulta ...

Kansas Citians with Chronic Pain Take Their Plight Public   “We don’t call them sufferers. We don’t ...

CHRONIC PAIN: National Groups Call on HHS to Release the National Pain Strategy Report and Endorse Four Core Me ...

Death and dying: An emerging conversation   Experts at KU Med Center and Center for Practical Bioethics am ...

Death and dying: Expanding palliative care   KU Hospital, Topeka nonprofit lead efforts to promote patient ...

Expert hails Medicare proposal to reimburse end-of-life counseling   KU palliative care doctor says plan r ...

Death and dying: Advocates seek state laws   Debate of ‘death with dignity’ legislation spreads across ...

Truly the Best Business of the Year Award   MetroCare wins the Lee’s Summit Chamber’s non-prof ...

Attorney General Supports Center’s Position on TPOPP On January 13, 2015, the Kansas Attorney General (AG) pr ...

Brittany Maynard’s Choice to End Her Life Raises Profound Questions John Carney, President & CEO of the C ...

5 Things to Know About Death and Dying Debates Cathy Lynn Grossman, senior national correspondent for Religion ...

Myra Christopher Named to Starr Hall of Fame Myra Christopher, the Center’s founding director and current Kat ...

You see a man in a kilt. You don’t see his searing pain. Ken agreed to share his story not merely to explai ...

Current Issues in Bioethics Lecture Series Co-Sponsored by the Center and Kansas City University of Medicine ...

Nancy Cruzan’s Legacy: Open Talk About Death With Dignity   Removal of her feeding tube 25 years ago end ...

40% of Cancer Patients Didn’t Discuss Preferences   “Patients want their providers asking about their ...

Will a ‘vaccine passport’ be required to travel? As idea grows, travelers have mixed reactions March 30, 20 ...

Bioethics Newsletter Summer-Fall 2021 The pandemic brought America face-to-face with the impacts of disparities ...

ETHICISTS DEBATE Should Doctors Refuse to Treat Unvaccinated People? A story appeared on August 17 in the Alabama News w ...

ETHICISTS DEBATE Should Doctors Refuse to Treat Unvaccinated People? A story appeared on August 17 in the Alaba ...

Bioethics Newsletter Winter-Spring 2021 The coronavirus pandemic has informed our collective conscience about w ...

Eight Principles and Practices for Ethical Vaccine Distribution: A Proposal The COVID-19, once-in-a-century, pandemic ha ...

The Truth of COVID-19: An Ethicist Reflects on His Experience I have been honored and privileged to serve the Kansas Ci ...

Bioethics Newsletter Summer-Fall 2020 From the mid-1980s when ventilators came into common use, the Center for ...

Medical Bankruptcy, Personal Luck and A National Sin I was raised on a farm up in Minnesota by Fundamentalist Depressi ...

Support Missouri Medicaid Expansion Register by July 8 to Cast Your Vote on August 4 Ballot On Tuesday, August 4th, vo ...

National Healthcare Decisions Day 2.0 In the future, those of us who survive 2020 will use words like “scary,” and ...

Ethics Consultation in COVID Times Q:  What happens to clinical ethics consultation in a pandemic? A:  Ethics consult ...

Bioethics Newsletter Winter-Spring 2020 People don’t like to talk about politics, religion or money. To that ...

Advance Care Planning Deciding How You Want to Live in the Time of COVID19 People don’t like to talk about politics, r ...

A Family’s Journey to Peace of Mind Jama’s mom had been living in a long-term acute care facility on dialysis and a ...

Bioethics Newsletter Summer-Fall 2019 A 52-year old African American woman with chronic obstructive pulmonary d ...

Ethical Issues in OB/GYN Inspire Board Service My first exposure to the Center for Practical Bioethics was as a guest at ...

Advance Care Planning and the Legacy of Dr. Richard Payne The African American Advance Care Planning Palliative Care Net ...

Walking Humbly with a Sacred Mission When our colleague and mentor, Dr. Richard Payne, died suddenly in January 2019 fo ...

Bioethics Newsletter Winter-Spring 2019 Celebrating our 35th anniversary. View the Newsletter ...

Bioethics Newsletter Summer-Fall 2018 Let’s go to the movies! Bioethics film series. View the Newsl ...

Film Series: Frankenstein Asks Us to Ponder What Is Monstrous This year marks the 200th anniversary of the publication ...

Film Series: Watching Big Fish Next to My Mother in the Hospital Now, this is an interesting coincidence, as I was wa ...

Gattaca Continues to Spark Pertinent Bioethics Discussions It’s October and the Center for Practical Bioethics is abou ...

Fostering Civil Discourse – and Humor – in a Partisan Era Fifteen years ago in the aftermath of 9/11, I was ...

Ethics, Morality and Genomic Science: Can We Play God the Way God Plays God? The wisdom of humans tinkering with nature ...

Gun Violence: Prevention by Paying Attention In a time of heightened anxiety about gun ownership and gun violence, the t ...

Lifetime Achievement in Bioethics Center for Practical Bioethics Founding Executive Myra Christopher Honored by America ...

Whatever Happened to Long-Term Care Reform? From the Trenches: A Prescription for Change I have enjoyed looking at th ...

The Americans with Disabilities Act: Before and After the Fall For the past many years, I have publicly and privately ...

The family of Charlie Gard. Charlie Gard, Baby Doe and the Wisdom of Bill Bartholome These difficult and highly emotiona ...

Personalized Medicine: Our Future or Big Data Voodoo? Personalized medicine has the potential to revolutionize medicin ...

World Elder Abuse Awareness Day (#WEADD)  Why I Am Tired and Inspired The United Nations recognizes June 15 as World ...

Good Death, or Assisted Suicide? The Case of Mr. Perry and his Pacemaker Mr. Perry (not his real name) was 83 years ol ...

Improving End-of-Life Care for African-Americans through Advance Care Planning in Partnership with Faith Communities T ...

Beth Smith Reflections on the Life of Beth Smith Linda’s Reflections  I met Beth Smith after Terry and I returned h ...

Kathy Greenlee’s Reflections on Paths to Person-Centered Planning Challenging Us to See the Whole Person at All Stag ...

Secretary Kathleen Sebelius Presents Big Ideas in End-of-Life Care What are the “big ideas” in end of life care? Th ...

Home Birth, Hospital Birth, and the Myth of the Good Mother – Reflections from a Bad Mother In the eyes of many, ...

The Affordable Care Act: It will not depart the same way it entered. I also recently revisited the unusual circumstances ...

Chronic Pain and the Opioid Epidemic: Wicked Issues Have No Simple Solutions Calls of Desperation My mom was a steel m ...

                  Tutu Bishop Bishop Tutu’s Plea Prompts Personal Meditation on Assisted Suicide At age 30, I ...

The High Costs of Chasing Immortality Americans undoubtedly cherish the science of medicine, whether it be “moonshot ...

PAINS Update Penney Cowan has lived with chronic pain for most of her life and is the Founder of the American Chronic Pa ...

A Selfish Request for Honest Conversations If you aren’t familiar with the Center, it is a nonprofit, free-standing an ...

Mothers’ Luscious Webs of Love – in Life and Death A Message for James IV A 14-year old young man received the b ...

This Is How Prince’s Death Begins Conversation About Addiction INTRODUCTORY NOTE FROM MYRA CHRISTOPHER Lynn Webster, ...

New Reasons for Outrage Over Persistence of Healthcare Disparities: Ignorance and Neglect Although various studies indic ...

Cultural Expectation and Prenatal Risk – A Matter of Justice I recently co-authored a peer commentary in the American ...

Death with Dignity? What Kansans Need to Consider about House Bill No. 2150 (“The Kansas Death with Dignity Act”) ...

Never Too Young to Plan Beyond And yet, given my conversations with professionals who deal with late-in-life and end-of ...

TOUGH CASES: Code of Ethics Now Available for Healthcare Ethics Consultants Consider the following hypothetical case sc ...

New Program Will Bring Advance Care Planning to African-American Faith Communities African Americans die at excessive l ...

DEATH PANELS BACK IN THE NEWS At Least in the Land of Oz for People with Hepatitis C Death Panels are back in the news, ...