National Archives at Kansas City
400 West Pershing Road
Kansas City, MO 64108
March 16 – June 10, 2010
Deadly Medicine: Creating the Master Race, a traveling exhibition of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, is set for display at the National Archives in Kansas City from March 16 to June 10.
The exhibit is sponsored by the Midwest Center for Holocaust Education, in partnership with the National Archives at Kansas City and in cooperation with the Center for Practical Bioethics.
The public is invited to attend a ceremonial ribbon cutting at 10:00 a.m. Tuesday, March 16 at the National Archives, which will include a tour led by the curator of the exhibit, Dr. Susan Bachrach of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum.
Admission is free. The project will include an opening patron reception, teacher and docent training, and community programs, including a May 26 lecture by Glenn McGee, PhD, the Center’s John B. Francis Chair in Bioethics.
Presenting sponsors: Saint Luke's Health System and the Conference on Jewish Material Claims Against Germany
Supporting Sponsors: Missouri Humanities Council, Kansas Humanities Council, Sprint Foundation, and Oppenstein Brothers Foundation
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To Screen or Not to Screen?
Ethical Controversies in Mammography Screening
Tuesday, March 24
6:00-7:30 pm
Community Christian Church - Centennial Hall
4601 Main St.
Kansas City, MO
In November, 2009 the United States Preventive Services Task Force released a report questioning the merits of routine mammography screening. These recommendations have sparked criticism among women's advocacy groups and medical professionals alike.
But is such criticism deserved? Join us for an evening of ethical discourse on these questions and more. A panel of experts will help to illuminate the facts and values behind all sides of this heated issue.
The forum is free and open to the public. For more information click here.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Practical Bioethics and Saint Luke's Cancer Institute.
Coming Together for Better Pain Treatment
American Academy of Family Physicians national education program to improve pain management
Pain is the most common reason patients seek medical care. For a number of reasons, though, pain is undertreated.
That's why the American Academy of Family Physicians convened a unique group including the American Academy of Pain Medicine, the Center for Practical Bioethics, the Federation of State Medical Boards, and the Federation of State Medical Boards Foundation to develop and promote a series of five programs for primary care providers across the country to promote better pain management.
The final session is scheduled for Atlanta, GA on March 13, 2010
For more information click here.
Link:
- Podcast, A Program to Improve Pain Treatment, Ann Karty, MD, American Academy of Family Physicians, December 17, 2009, 13 minutes 15 seconds
- Improving Pain Management, Up to Date, KCUR Radio, November 10, 2009
Podcast: The Bioethics Channel
Rosemary Flanigan
March 5, 2010
13 minutes 16 seconds
Is it always wrong to perform futile CPR?
That was the question posed by Doctor Robert Truog in the February 11th edition of the New England Journal of Medicine. And that question prompted a great deal of debate in an email discussion group sponsored by Sister Rosemary Flanigan at the Center for Practical Bioethics.
Sister Rosemary talks about it in this edition of The Bioethics Channel.
Blog: Practical Bioethics
Rosemary Flanigan
March 5, 2010
Two issues to distinguish: 1) What justifies, medically and morally, saying that it no longer makes sense to continue life-extending treatment? And 2) What is the meaning of that judgment when it is used to stop life-extending treatment?
As we have argued over the past weeks, once a judgment has been reached about futility, it is considered acceptable by long-standing medical tradition to stop treatment. But what of the judgment by which we reached that notion?
