Richard Payne, MD

Bioethics and the Underserved: Culture, Values and Justice

Richard Payne, MD
Director – Duke Institute on Care at the End of Life

Tuesday, July 26

Reception: 6 pm
Lecture: 7 pm

St. Joseph Medical Center
Alex George Auditorium
1000 Carondelet
Kansas City MO

There is much in contemporary health care that is ripe for transformation, including bioethics.

Standard bioethics codified in the ethical principles of “autonomy, beneficence, non-malfeasance, and justice” needs to be challenged as too limiting a framework for analyzing and responding to ethical and moral issues raised by the problems of inadequate health care for many.

It is ironic that these supposedly generic and neutral ethical principles were in part meant to enhance the public discourse in a very diverse society that is so often inhospitable to difference.  Yet, one can make a case that particular communities, traditions and cultures which give people their moral identity are too often silenced or marginalized by too strict and adherence to supposedly rational principles.

In this lecture, Dr. Payne will discuss how medical professionals might consider a wider perspective of bioethics that encompasses cultural narratives and perspectives that should enhance richer and more robust dimensions of ethical decision making.

This lecture is free but registration is requested by clicking here, or you may contact Donna Blackwood at dblackwood@practicalbioethics.org or call Donna at (816)979-1352.

Please feel free to print and distribute program flier as you wish. For a copy click here.

This is the 17th Annual Rosemary Flanigan Lecture. For a history of previous lectures click here.

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