Tag / bioethics expertise
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December 2025 Bioethics Bulletin E-Newsletter
We focus on the bioethics of ECMO in the Center for Practical Bioethics’ December 18, 2025 Bioethics Bulletin. We discuss ECMO in our Ethics Dispatch and video case study, while professors Dr. Kayhan Parsi and Nanette Elster begin shaping programming that bridges scholarship and the practice of bioethics.
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November 20 2025 Bioethics Bulletin E-Newsletter
Clinical ethics is the focus of the Center for Practical Bioethics’ November 20, 2025 Bioethics Bulletin. We discuss the bioethics principle of beneficence and using hospitals to continue to care for some patients instead of other recovery facilities which refuse to admit the patients.
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Bioethics Case Study – ECMO and Healthcare Technology
Bioethics case study on ECMO and Healthcare Technology in VIDEO and PRINT. Technology Means Hard Choices: To Start or Not to Start ECMO. His wife became critically ill and had to be transferred to the ICU after delivering her baby via emergency C-section. She continued to decline in the ICU to the point that her only chance of survival was to be transferred to another hospital to start ECMO. Published by the Center for Practical Bioethics.
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Bioethics Case Study – When Facilities Refuse Admission
Bioethics case study on when facilities refuse admission, hospitals are the last resort in VIDEO and PRINT. Hospitals must jump through hoops to find facilities that can meet patient mental health needs. Without a deliberate effort to provide for such patients, they will continue to remain abandoned by society and left to places of last resort, typically the hospital. Published by the Center for Practical Bioethics.
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October 23 2025 Bioethics Bulletin E-Newsletter
Read about justice in an age of misinformation in the Center for Practical Bioethics’ October 23, 2025 Bioethics Bulletin. Other topics include announcing the new Francis co-chairs, our upcoming free lecture, “Jazz, Bioethics, and the Moral Practice of Medicine,” our 2025 Vision to Action award winner, and watch a new case study on the meaning of expertise.
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Bioethics Case Study – What Does It Mean to be a Bioethics Expert?
Bioethics case study on bioethics expertise in VIDEO and PRINT. What Does It Mean to Be an Expert? Perception, Reality and Practical Implications When does someone’s expertise become beneficial to others? As professional ethicist do we understand morality more than others, and if so, what is my role to others as an expert? The case illustrates how bioethics expertise enabled a son to feel understood and supported in allowing his mother to pass. Published by the Center for Practical Bioethics.
