To Screen or Not to Screen: Ethical Controversies in Mammography Screening (MP3)
A panel of experts helped illuminate the facts and values on all sides of this heated issue during a public forum on March 24, 2010.
Medical Professionalism: What's Trust (Not Truth) Got to Do With It? (Lecture) (MP3)
Steven Joiner, head of the Workforce Pillar of the KC4 Aging in Community initiative, discusses why the workforce needs to shift perspective on aging from one of burden to asset. He highlights the need to tap into the talent of an aging workforce.
Moral Courage in Medicine - Disclosing Medical Error (PDF)
John Banja
Case Study - The Case of the Upbeat Mechanic (PDF)
Robert Potter
Heartland Regional Medical Center Makes a "Fitting Response" to Medical Mistakes (PDF)
Landis Downing and Robert L. Potter
Medical Errors in Surgery (PDF)
David Emmott, MD
New Standards, New Dilemmas - Reflections on Managing Medical Mistakes (PDF)
Ginny M. Hamm and Steve S. Kraman
From a Culture of Blame to a Culture of Safety - The Role of Institutional Ethics Committees (PDF)
Mark Meaney
Viewpoint: Moral Distress in Healthcare (PDF)
Judith Andre (PDF)
Robert L. Potter and Rosemary Flanigan
Moral Distress or Moral Comfort (PDF)
Mary C. Corley and Ptlene Minick
In the Patient's Best Interest - A Call to Action, A Call to Balance (PDF)
Norma J. Hirsch
Moral Fatigue - A Nursing Perspective (PDF)
Susan Taylor
Virtue, Foible and Practice - Medicine's Arduous Moral Triad (PDF)
Griffin Trotter
Moral Distress - The Role of Ethics Consultation in the NICU (PDF)
Lucia Wocial
From Clinical to Organizational Ethics - The Second Stage of the Evolution of Bioethics (PDF)
Patient Rights and Organization Ethics - The Joint Commission Perspective (PDF)
Individuals Bear Responsibility (PDF)
Organizations, Ethics and Health Care - Building an Ethics Infrastructure for a New Era (PDF)
The Evolving Health Care Marketplace (PDF)
Hospital Mergers and Acquisitions - A New Catalyst for Examining Organizational Ethics (PDF)
Real World Resource Allocation - The Concept of "Good Enough" (PDF)
James E. Sabin and Carlos Neu
Can Ethics Committees Work in Managed Care Plans? (PDF)
Michael Felder
Physicians and Managed Care - Employees or Professionals? (PDF)
Kate T. Christensen
Provider Disclosure of Financial Incentives in Managed Care - Pros and Cons (PDF)
Robert McCormack
Personal Privacy and Confidentiality in an Electronic Environment (PDF)
Ida Critelli Schick
Case Study: Ophelia (PDF)
Rosemary Flanigan
EthicalIssues in Managed Care - Guidelines for Clinicians and Recommendations to Accrediting Organizations (PDF)
Joan D. Biblo, Myra J. Christopher, Linda Johnson and Robert Lyman Potter
Patient Self-Determination and Complementary Therapies (PDF)
Margaret A. Burkhardt and Alvita K. Nathaniel
A Case Study: Herman's Story (PDF)
Rosemary Flanigan
Guest Commentary: Ethical Issues in Alternative Medicine (PDF)
David Edelberg
The Tapestry of Alternative Healing (PDF)
Robert Hudson
Bioethical Analysis of an Integrated Medicine Clinic (PDF)
Robert Lyman Potter and Jennifer Schneider
Medical Futility - an Ethical Issue for Clinicians and Patients (PDF)
James J. Walter
When Enough is Enough - The Predicament over Futility (PDF)
Michael C. Brannigan
Decisions at the End of Life - The Abuse of the Concept of Futility (PDF)
Edmund D. Pellegrino
Case Study: A Family Divided (PDF)
Robert L. Potter and Rosemary Flanigan
Theology and the Discipline of Bioethics (PDF)
Janine Marie Idziak
The Faith Community's Role in Supporting and Empower Persons with Mental Illness (PDF)
Chalres Lackamp
Religion, Sex and Holiness (PDF)
Rabbi Mark H. Levin
Health Care, Suffering and Theology: Severe Sovereign, Romantic Sovereign and Process Approaches (PDF)
Wiliam F. MciNerny
Scripture and Medical Ethics (PDF)
Allen D. Verhey
Abortion: Law, Religion and Society (PDF)
Paul Custodio Bube
How Religious Values Affect Medical Care Decisions of Jehovah's Witnesses (PDF)
Cyrus DeWolf
Christian Science and Health Care (PDF)
Dale W. Ferguson, CSB
What is a Good Death? (PDF)
Rabbi Gerald M. Kane
The Goop-Oooze Story of Creation (PDF)
Catherine Lewis and Rev. Dane R. Sommer
How to Find God in a Children's Hospital (PDF)
Rev. Dane R. Sommer
To Bring Healing: Religion and AIDS (PDF)
Diana Bader, O.P.
Homosexuality, Theological Ethics and AIDS (PDF)
Brian H. Childs
Choices (PDF)
Linda L. Cooper
Embrace the Exiles (PDF)
Dan Grippo
Beginning the World Again: Metaphor in the Early Literature of AIDS (PDF)
Chuck Anderson and Yvonne Oxford Hickey
Teresa (PDF)
Tom Spanbauer
The Challenges of Cross-Cultural Healthcare - Diversity, Ethics and the Medical Encounter (PDF)
Josephg R. Betancourt, Alexander R. Green and J. Emilio Carrillo
Case Study - The Wanted, Unwanted Doctor (PDF)
David Emmott, Helen Emmott and Robert Potter
Patient-Provider Relations - Understanding the Social and Cultural Circumstances of Difficult Patients (PDF)
K. Allen Greiner
Difficult Relationships - Interactions between Family Members and Staff in Long-Term Care (PDF)
Sarah Norris
Upholding Standards of Care for Difficult Patients (PDF)
Anna Ojascastro
The Impatient Patient - Reexamining Difficult Provider-Patient Relationships (PDF)
Marilyn Schaeffer
Guidelines for Providing Ethical Care in Difficult Provider-Patient Relationships (PDF)
Kansas City Regional Hospital Ethics Committee Consortium
"It Is the Poet Who Heals": Richard Selzer's Literature of Wholeness (PDF)
Charles M. Anderson
Necessary Ignorance (PDF)
William G. Bartholome
Imprisoned (PDF)
William G. Bartholome
Sex, Pain and Ritual (PDF)
Karen L. Field
Ivan Ilych: The Tragedy of an Unexamined Life (PDF)
Robin Gretz
Sheila and Nick and the World (PDF)
Julie Heide
One Day It Will Make You Sing (PDF)
Stewart Lawler
Stories Tell More Than They Say: Literature, Ethics and Health Care (PDF)
Alan S. Lubert
Love, Loss and Legacy: Death and Dying in Children's Literature (PDF)
Eilen M. O'Connell
Philoctetes: A Medical Narrative (PDF)
Eleanor Bronson Pyle
Refugee Health Care and the Problem of Suffering (PDF)
Judith Shepherd and Shotsy Faust
Telling Our Stories: A Process of Integration for Patients (PDF)
Peg Stokman
How Narrative Is Used for Grieving and Healing: A Thematic Case Story from Pastoral Care in Cardiology (PDF)
Rev. Robert J. Yim
Viewpoint - Ethicists Are Patients Too (PDF)
Eileen Amari-Vaught
Case Study - Megan's Diagnosis (PDF)
Helen Emmott and Rosemary Flanigan
Viewpoint - Our Best Path Forward (PDF)
W. Clay Jackson
Understanding Patient Confidentiality and Health Information Tracking - An Overview (PDF)
Ronald Domen
The Ethics of Health Privacy - A Matter of Environmental Ethics (PDF)
Douglas McNair
Youth, Health Care Decisions and Confidentiality - A Survey Report (PDF)
Sarah Norris
Confidentiality - Revealing Trends in Bioethics (PDF)
Lisa S. Parker and Robert M. Arnold
Rethinking the Ethis of Confidentiality and Health Care teams (PDF)
Ruth B. Purtilo
Privacy, Security and Shared Access - Can Confidentiality Be Protected in a Networked Society? (PDF)
David Voran
Shared Decision Making: The Ethics of Caring and Best Respect (PDF)
Joseph E. Beltran
Being Human: Issues in Sexuality for People with Developmental Disabilities (PDF)
Sheryl Robinson Civjan
Silences (PDF)
Theodore J. Diboun
My Quality Is Not Low! (PDF)
Douglas McNair
A Threat to Disabled Persons? On the Genetics Approach to Developmental Disabilities (PDF)
Hans S. Reinders
Russell's Story (PDF)
Don F. Reynolds
Challenges Across the Life Span for Persons with Disabilities (PDF)
Christine Rinck and Carl F. Calkins
People with Developmental Disabilities Focusing on Their Own Health Care (PDF)
Becky St. Clair
Health Care Treatment Decision-Making Guidelines for Adults with Developmental Disabilities (PDF)
Midwest Bioethis Center and University of Missouri-Kansas City Institute for Human Development Task Force on Health Care for Adults with Developmental Disabilities