Medical Ethics

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.

Ethics of Disorders of Consciousness (MP3)

The State of Bioethics (MP3)

The State of Altered Consciousness (MP3)

Ethics of Deactivating Implantable Devices (MP3)

The Ethics of Donation after Cardiac Death (MP3)

Organ Donations and Presumed Consent (MP3)

The Ethics of Mammography Screening (MP3)

Futile CPR. Always Wrong? (MP3)

Rethinking Vegetative States (MP3)

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)

Do No Harm (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 Physician's Role in Protecting Confidentiality - A Consideration of the Implications of AIDS (PDF)
Sharon Lee

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