What is Bioethics?

Ethics is a philosophical discipline pertaining to notions of good and bad, right and wrong — our moral life in community. Bioethics is the application of ethics to the field of medicine and healthcare. Ethicists and bioethicists ask relevant questions more than provide sure and certain answers.

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Ethics Dispatch February 2024

This month our Ethics Dispatch discusses the hot topic of Autonomy in the Absence of Decisional Capacity. Other ...

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AI in Kansas City Healthcare

Balancing Potential and Risk A recent story in the Kansas City Beacon explores AI’s potential to enable clini ...

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February 9 2024 Email Newsletter

In this bulletin, read about “AI Ethics and the Productivity Trap” blog, how Center experts are ava ...

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AI Ethics and the Productivity Trap

By Matthew Pjecha, MS Ethical AI Program Coordinator The recent surge in AI hype has been accompanied by growin ...

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January 30 2024 Email Newsletter

Read about our new board members of 2024, the blog “If I had Known Then…,” the January 2024 E ...

Ethics Dispatch January 2024

This month our Ethics Dispatch discusses the hot topic of Multidisciplinary Teams: The Risks and the Promise. O ...

What I Wish I Had Known Then and What I Know Now about Ethics Consultation

By Trudi Galblum, Director of Marketing The first sign that something was wrong were the headaches. Later it was ...

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January 9 2024 Email Newsletter

In 2024, as we celebrate four decades of raising and responding to ethical issues in health and healthcare, we ...

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Volunteer Profile: A Physician’s Dedication to Ethics from the Bedside to Boardroom

Steve Salanski, MD, family practice portrait. Stephen Salanski, MD, traces his interest in medical ethics to hi ...

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Advance Care Planning: Responding to the Need for Diverse Communities’ Participation

By James Stowe, PhD, President and CEO Rather than dying of a traumatic event or infectious disease, most Ameri ...

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November 28 2023 Email Newsletter

Read the inside perspective of a work day as a clinical ethicist in healthcare, about why a community leader su ...

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Center for Practical Bioethics Crossword Puzzle

How well do you know the Center for Practical Bioethics and the field of bioethics? Take a break and have some ...

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Clinical Ethics Consultation: How I Make a Difference on the Worst Days in People’s Lives

By Ryan Pferdehirt, D. Bioethics, HEC-C, Vice President of Ethics Services I often half-jokingly say that someo ...

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November 9 2023 Email Newsletter

Learn about the three definitions of medical futility and how to balance them, having a advance care planning d ...

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Medical Ethics and AI in Healthcare: A Fireside Chat

At our 40th Anniversary Kickoff Luncheon in October, Lindsey Jarrett, PhD, and Ryan Pferdehirt, D. Bioethics, H ...

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Talia’s Mom Reflects on Her Message and Its Impact

Talia’s mom, Naomi Kirtner, recently wrote about what it was like, at great emotional cost, to present four l ...

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Three Definitions of Medical Futility And How to Balance Them

By Ryan Pferdehirt, D. Bioethics, HEC-C, Vice President of Ethics Services, and Marissa Hernandez, Program Specialist, C ...

October 26 2023 Email Newsletter

Learn how clinical ethics services has three ROI’s, Lindsey Jarrett is promoted to VP of Ethical AI, and ...

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Clinical Ethics Consultation: Three Ways It Returns Your Investment

By Trudi Galblum Director of Marketing, Center for Practical Bioethics Why should hospitals, hospices and healt ...

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Your Life, Your Death: Sharing Your Final Wishes with Your Loved Ones

By Odessa Sawyer, MSW Program Coordinator, Center for Practical Bioethics Discussions about death are never easy ...

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October 12 2023 Email Newsletter

Read about our recap of our 40th anniversary luncheon, Erika Blacksher and Nellie Kassebaum’ s published ...

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Public Deliberation: An Alternative to Politics as Usual

Building Common Ground The October issue of the American Journal of Public Health (AJPH) is devoted to buildi ...

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Dr. Jarrett Mentors NIH Researcher

Dr. Jarrett Mentors NIH Researcher on Digital Health Technology for Older Adults AIM AHEAD Program Lindsey Jarre ...

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Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare

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Medical Ethics and Why It Matters

For some, the subject of ethics tends to elicit a response that can best be described as ho-hum. Clearly, thos ...

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September 26 2023 Email Newsletter

Read about our upcoming luncheon, recap of our 29th Flanigan Lecture, the introduction of the Ethics Dispatch t ...

Their Child Died Because People in Charge Didn’t Listen

Talia Goldenberg and her parents were unable to convince Talia’s doctors, nurses and support staff to take h ...

Ethics Dispatch September 2023

This month our Ethics Dispatch discusses the hot topic of informed consent and pelvic exams. Other sections inc ...

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September 14 2023 Email Newsletter

Read about our Ethical AI program and upcoming events in the Center for Practical Bioethics’ September 14 ...

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What Is Health Equity?

By Erika Blacksher, PhD John B. Francis Chair, Center for Practical Bioethics Notions of health equity and hea ...

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August 2023 Monthly Email Newsletter

Read about current key challenges in bioethics, 24 hours in the life of a bioethicist, and upcoming events in t ...

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24 Hours in the Life of a Bioethicist

By Tarris Rosell, PhD, DMin Rosemary Flanigan Chair, Center for Practical Bioethics The Center for Practical B ...

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Center CEO James Stowe Discusses Three Challenges for Bioethics

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July 2023 Monthly Email Newsletter

The Center for Practical Bioethics July 2023 monthly email newsletter discusses our 40th anniversary luncheon, ...

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Catholic Bioethics and Conscientious Objection: Implementing Catholic Directives within Secular Healthcare

Conscientious objection can be difficult to navigate. When should a person violate their own values at the requ ...

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Rural Public Health Ethics: Making the Case for Medicaid Expansion

By Nellie Kassebaum, MPH Research Associate, Center for Practical Bioethics Why have we socially and politicall ...

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Governor Parson Signs Measures Recognizing TPOPP/POLST as Equivalent to Missouri Out of Hospital Do Not Resuscitate Order

After more than a decade, the Missouri Assembly approved legislation recognizing the TPOPP/POLST medical order ...

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Dr. Blacksher Discusses Civic Health and Democratic Deliberation in Podcast

Dr. Erika Blacksher, John B. Francis Chair at the Center for Practical Bioethics, discusses civic health and h ...

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June 2023 Monthly Email Newsletter

The Center for Practical Bioethics June 2023 monthly email newsletter discusses our 40th anniversary luncheon, ...

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Respecting Autonomy

By Ryan Pferdehirt, D.Bioethics, HEC-C Vice President of Ethics Services, Center for Practical Bioethics The Ed ...

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1984 to 2024

By Trudi Galblum Director of Marketing and Communications, Center for Practical Bioethics When th ...

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Who has Time to Talk About Ethics?

“Who has time to talk about ethics?” While no one may say this aloud, this sentiment is u ...

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May 2023 Monthly Email Newsletter

The Center for Practical Bioethics May 2023 monthly email newsletter discusses our 40th anniversary luncheon, k ...

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Bard AI Writes a Poem on Bioethics Center

Tarris Rosell, PhD, DMin, Rosemary Flanigan Chair, asked Bard AI to “describe the ideal bioethics center (in ...

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Kudos to Authors: End-of-Life Ethics in a Changing World

A CPB staff member, a board member and a former student have all contributed chapters to a new book published b ...

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Clinical Ethicists: Providing Guidance at the Crossroads of Decision

Ryan Pferdehirt, Vice President of Ethics Services, wrote a blog about the role of clinical ethicists in health ...

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When the health care system fails women, Kansas City community workers try to bridge the gap

Board Member and Director of the Kansas City Missouri Health Department, Marvia Jones, Quoted in this KCUR Arti ...

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Bioethics Newsletter Winter Spring 2023

Read about our upcoming 40th anniversary events, our new board members, our new CEO and more. View the Ne ...

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April 2023 Monthly Email Newsletter

The Center for Practical Bioethics April 2023 monthly email newsletter discusses our Ethics Services, celebrati ...

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Ethics Perspective on a Controversial Innovation to Recover Donor Hearts for Transplantation

By Tarris Rosell, PhD, DMin Rosemary Flanigan Chair, Center for Practical Bioethics Normothermic Regional Perfus ...

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Violence Against Kansas Healthcare Workers Prompts Fresh Push for Tougher Penalties

Terry Rosell Quoted in The Kansas City Star Article Healthcare workers are at risk of workplace violence whi ...

March 2023 Monthly Email Newsletter

The Center for Practical Bioethics March 2023 monthly email newsletter discusses celebrating its 40th anniversa ...

February 2023 Monthly Email Newsletter

February 2023 Bioethics Bulletin If you would like to receive these monthly bulletins, please sign up HERE. ...

A Benefit of Being an Ethics Services Affiliate Organization: The Monthly Ethics Dispatch

Affiliate Organizations of our Center Ethics Services receive our Ethics Dispatch as part of their annual membe ...

Short Video Released About the Center’s Values

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

Center Bioethicist, Ryan Pferdehirt, Remarks on the Future on Cancer Testings

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

Healthcare Workplace Violence An Appeal for Proven Preventive Measures

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

January 2023 Monthly Email Newsletter

January 2023 Bioethics Bulletin If you would like to receive these monthly bulletins, please sign up HERE. ...

Four Recommendations for Ethical AI in Healthcare

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

New Center for Practical Bioethics President and CEO Will Focus on Health-Related Social Needs

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

Cries for help arrive that you can answer

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

Huddling with physicians facing morally challenging dilemmas

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

December 2022 Monthly Email Newsletter

December 2022 Bioethics Bulletin If you would like to receive these monthly bulletins, please sign up HERE. ...

Help us break down structural and systemic racism in healthcare

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

Unheard voices in healthcare need you to safeguard

A personal message from Tresia Franklin Dear CPB Friend: I first got to know t ...

Friends and Family Join in Retirement Celebration

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

If you believe all families deserve the same level of care…

A personal message from Diane Gallagher Dear CPB Friend: As parents of a child ...

Why you should care about healthcare ethics committees

A personal message from Steve Salanski Dear CPB Friend: I first got to know th ...

Your healthcare depends on good communication

A personal message from Nellie Kassebaum Dear CPB Friend: I was eager to join ...

November 2022 Monthly Email Newsletter

November 2022 Bioethics Bulletin If you would like to receive these monthly bulletins, please sign up HERE. ...

You can fight vitriol and gridlock in solving healthcare problems

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

Advance Care Planning helped our family and can help yours too

A personal message from Mark R. Thompson Dear CPB Friend: As an attorney, I w ...

You help relieve sister’s worries about cancer care

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

Why you should care about the wild west of AI in healthcare

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

You can reduce bias posed by AI in healthcare

A personal message from Maggie Neustadt Dear CPB Friend: My commitment to the ...

Latino families need your support for better healthcare

A personal message from Rob Flores Dear CPB Friend: A few years ago, I knew th ...

October 2022 Monthly Email Newsletter

October 2022 Bioethics Bulletin If you would like to receive these monthly bulletins, please sign up HERE. ...

Ann Karty and the Enduring Impact of Bioethics Case Studies

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

Avatar of Shared Decision Making in Healthcare

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

You Bring Ethics into Life-and-Death Decisions

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

Dobbs heightened need for your support for ethics in healthcare

A personal message from Eva Karp Dear CPB Friend: My involvement with the Cent ...

Bioethics Newsletter Summer/Fall 2022

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

Interns at the Center: Give and Gain Practical Experience

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 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

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

President/CEO Position

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

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

August 2022 Monthly Email Newsletter

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

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

Changing False Narratives in Public Health

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

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

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

Ethical AI Project in a BioNexus KC Blog

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

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A Philosopher Who Does Bioethics

By Trudi Galblum, Marketing, Communications, and Grant Writing New careers often emerge from new technology. Cli ...

Hundreds Connect with Voices of the Unheard

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CEO John Carney Honored by Missouri Hospice & Palliative Care Association

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

Targeting the Uneven Burden of Kidney Disease on Black Americans

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

Payne Palliative Care Leadership Award Recipient Announced

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

Exhibit Celebrating the Wishes of Elders Evokes Strong Emotions

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

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

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

Bioethics Newsletter Winter-Spring 2022

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

Center for Practical Bioethics What Would Be Your Wish for Our World?

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

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

2022 Vision to Action Award

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

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In Times Like These

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

Our CEO quoted in news article: Man denied heart transplant because he won’t get vaccinated against COVID

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

Becoming a Living Organ Donor

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

IN MEMORY of Sarah (Liza) Rowland Townsend, JD, MSW

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

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

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

Meatpacking plant workers prioritized for vaccines

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?

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

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

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

The Center for Practical Bioethics helps guide families and doctors during the pandemic

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

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 

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

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

Lifetime Achievement in Bioethics

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

Former DHHS Assistant Secretary Joins the Center Staff

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

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

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

You see a man in a kilt. You don’t see his searing pain.

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

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

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

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

Kansas Citians with Chronic Pain Take Their Plight Public

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 Messages

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

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

Death and dying: Expanding palliative care

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

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

Death and dying: Advocates seek state laws

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

Truly the Best Business of the Year Award

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

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

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

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

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

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

Bioethics Newsletter Summer-Fall 2021

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

Should Doctors Refuse to Treat Unvaccinated People?

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

Bioethics Newsletter Winter-Spring 2021

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

Bioethics Newsletter Summer-Fall 2020

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

Bioethics Newsletter Winter-Spring 2020

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

Bioethics Newsletter Summer-Fall 2019

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

Bioethics Newsletter Winter-Spring 2019

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

Bioethics Newsletter Summer-Fall 2018

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

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