Tag / Center for Practical Bioethics
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Are you a victim of enshiftification?
Our old database company offered to export our data for a few thousand dollars. But it’s our data, not theirs. We refused and paid a developer to do the conversion. Our Communication and Website Coordinator, Monica Delles, explains why these types of demands are unaffordable and unreasonable, if not unethical, especially for small nonprofits like the Center…and what we’re doing about it.
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Will Your Healthcare Organization Be Ready? Ethics Services Partnerships Offer Clarity
Read about two hospitals partnering for different clinical ethics services. Partnership with the Center offers clarity. We provide real-time consultation, long-term support, and guidance that helps hospitals respond to uncertainty with confidence – while upholding the highest ethical standards in care.
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Case Study – Should a Dying Patient Receive Pain Medications or Donate Organs?
Bioethics case study on a dying patient receiving pain medication OR donate organs in VIDEO and PRINT. Should we allow the patient to have a peaceful passing, but not allow them to donate organs which the patient had expressly stated they wanted to do?
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May 28 2025 Email Newsletter
We discuss living our values in challenging times, ethical AI issues with case studies, welcome a new team member, Abby Gast-Watterson, and provide clinical ethics resources in the Ethics Dispatch and video case study in this month’s e-newsletter.
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Four Words She Uses All the Time
Autonomy. Justice. Non-maleficence. Beneficence. “I use those four basic principles of bioethics all the time!” said Barbara Bollier, a retired anesthesiologist, former Kansas State Senator, and longtime Center for Practical Bioethics volunteer and Legacy Society member.
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Case Study – Moral Authority: Is the Feeding Tube Necessary?
Bioethics case study on moral authority and healthcare ethics in VIDEO and PRINT. Even though he knew she wouldn’t have wanted the tube, he was afraid she might be suffering from hunger as she was dying.
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Case Studies: AI in Healthcare
Recognizing and understanding the risks of AI in healthcare can be hard. These case studies of AI in healthcare highlight the difficulties in implementing the algorithms.
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Living Our Values in Challenging Times
In his role as President and CEO of the Center, Dr. James Stowe is uncovering a granite resolve to stay upright against the headwinds of challenging times. To do so, he relies on the Center’s core values – dignity, advocacy, justice and action. In these personal remarks, Dr. Stowe delves into the ways that the Center lives its values.
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April 29 2025 Email Newsletter
In this month’s e-newsletter, we discuss how algorithms raise ethical issues through four case studies, learn why Maggie Nuestadt serves as a board member, highlight an article on the increasing need for bioethicists, preview a new Ethics Dispatch, and provide a new video case study.
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Case Study – The Law or Ethics: Which Should Take Priority?
Bioethics case study on law and ethics in VIDEO and PRINT. What is legally supported isn’t always ethically supported. So what do you do when these two ideas conflict? Do you prioritize what you believe is right for the patient, or do you follow what the law allows?
