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Terri Schiavo Lives On
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Bioethics Newsletter Summer-Fall 2021
The pandemic brought America face-to-face with the impacts of disparities in race, class and ethnicity in health and healthcare. Inadequately resourced public health and disaster response systems exacerbated injustices upon the poor, elderly and communities of color. The economic crisis worsened longstanding inequities.
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A Health Reform Perspective from Kansas
A Health Reform Perspective from Kansas Robert St. Peter, MD, president and CEO of the Kansas Health Institute, addresses some of the uncertainties that arose with the Supreme Court's upholding of the Affordable Care Act, including variability between states regarding continuation of the current Medicaid program, whether deadlines will be extended, and the provision of… -
Rosemary Flanigan Lecture Presents “The Ethics of Spectacle” with Karla Holloway
Duke University Professor Karla Holloway, PhD, explored how medical information – typically seen as intimate and private – is forced into the public sphere.
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Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) – Impact on Pain Treatment
In July 2012, the US Food and Drug Administration released a risk evaluation and mitigation strategy (REMS) for extended release pain medications.
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An Independent Senior Living Development in Kansas City
A Kansas City, Missouri, project is now underway to build senior housing for assisted living, memory impaired residents, and seniors living independently.
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Revising an Ethics Committee Handbook
Occasionally an institution needs to revise its ethics committee handbook.
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Resuscitating the Dead Donor Rule
“Can the Dead Donor Rule be Resuscitated?” That’s the title of an editorial in the August 2011 issue of The American Journal of Bioethics Editorial, co-authored by David Magnus, PhD, Stanford University Center for Biomedical Ethics.
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Respecting the Disabled at End of Life
Where do we stand when it comes to people with disabilities and end of life issues?
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Removing Kidneys Before Death
Should we remove kidneys from a dying person before they are dead?
