Lectures in Bioethics by Category
Aging and End of Life
Why People Still Suffer at the End of Life, Myra Christopher, President/CEO, Center for Practical Bioethics, December 9, 2009
I’m dying, STAT! Call my…lawyer?, William Colby, JD, October 14, 2009
You Got It and Can’t Get Over It: Chronic Disease and Aging, John Carney, June 3, 2009
Genetics
Eugenics, Race and Bioethics, Glenn McGee, PhD, May 26, 2010
The Ethics of Living Forever, Glenn McGee, PhD, February 24, 2010
Genetics, Jewish Diseases & Personalized Medicine Conference
November 2 and 3, 2009
Genetic Testing and Jewish Identity – Do our genes tell us who we are?, Jon Entine – American Enterprise Institute
Tay-Sachs and Sickle Cell – Different cultures, different responses to genetic testing, Keith Wailoo – Rutgers University
Recreational Genetic Testing: Navigating Personal Identity in a Genomic Age, Barbara Koenig – Mayo College of Medicine
Genetic testing from a traditional Jewish perspective – can testing before marriage help?, Daniel Eisenberg – Thomas Jefferson University
What does it mean to be told that you (or your child) has a bad gene?, Joel Charrow- Chicago Center for Jewish Diseases
- A parents perspective, Ken and Judy Yalowitz, Dartmouth College – Parents
Personalized Medicine and the cost of health care. Will individualized diagnosis and treatment raise costs, improve quality, or become a boutique commodity?
Noam Zohar – Bar Ilan University, Israel – Rabbi and Philosopher
Stephen Spielberg- Children’s Mercy Hospital Pharmacogeneticist
Links:
- Noam Zohar presentation
- Zohar PowerPoint
- Stephen Speilberg presentation
- Speilberg PowerPoint
- Discussion
Why do bad genes persist?, Henry Harpending – University of Utah – Anthropologist
Alan Redd – University of Kansas- Anthropologist
Eugenics, arranged marriages, and gene therapy: Responses to genetic disease
- Rabbi Elliot Dorff – American University of Judaism – Philosopher
Chris Austin – National Institutes of Health- Geneticist - Discussion: moderated by Jonathan Jacoby
Individuals, culture and biology: what does the future hold?
Laurie Zoloth – Northwestern University – Bioethicist
John Lantos- Children’s Mercy Hospital - Pediatrician
Links:
Healthcare Reform
The Missing Element in Healthcare Reform: Medicare Cost Curve at the End of Life OR The Economics of Healthcare for Older Americans — From Virtue to Voodoo and Back Again, Perry Fine, MD, April 14, 2010.
Healthcare Reform 2009: Truth, Justice and the American Way
Good Ethics Start with Good Facts
October 6, 2009
- Myra Christopher, Center president and CEO (9 minutes 36 seconds)
- John Carney, Center vice president for aging and end of life. (20 minutes 27 seconds)Powerpoint here.
- Teresa Brooks, JD, Polsinelli Shughart, PC (17 minutes 14 seconds)
- Max Skidmore, PhD, University of Missouri-Kansas City (13 minutes 21 seconds)
- Reverend Bob Hill, Community Christian Church (12 minutes 13 seconds)
Health Coverage for All
October 13, 2009
- Rex Archer, MD, MPH, Director, Kansas City, Missouri Health Department
- George Flanagan, DMin, MA, program associate, Center for Practical Bioethics
- William Pankey, MD, Chief Medical Officer, Swope Health Services
- Keith Wisdom, CFO, United Healthcare Midwest
Links:
- Health Coverage for All, Steve Roling, William Pankey, MD, The Bioethics Channel, 9 minutes 34 seconds
- Steve Roling keynote remarks, 33 minutes 11 seconds
- Responder panel, 22 minutes 33 seconds
- Q & A, 33 minutes 40 seconds
Bending the Cost Curve
October 20, 2009
- Keynote, Marcia Nielsen, PhD, 25 minutes 44 seconds
- Responder Panel, 24 minutes 47 seconds
- Q & A, 22 minutes 48 seconds
Systems Reform and Innovation
October 27, 2009
- Tom Cranshaw, MBA, Tri County Mental Health Services
- Karen L. Miller, RN, PhD, FA, Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs and dean, University of Kansas School of Nursing
- Gary Pettett, MD, Children’s Mercy Hospital, Office of Research Integrity, University of Missouri-Kansas City School of Medicine
- Robert St. Peter, MD 38 minutes 10 seconds
- Dr. St. Peter PowerPoint
- Responder panel, 12 minutes 2 seconds
- Gary Pettett, MD, 15 minutes 28 seconds
- Q & A 1, 4 minutes 55 seconds
- Q & A 2, 11 minutes 54 seconds
- Podcast: Robert St. Peter and Karen Miller, 12 minutes 22 seconds
Healthcare Reform Needed but Comes Hard, Steven Schroeder, MD, July 31, 2008
Medical Ethics
To Screen or Not to Screen? Ethical Controversies in Mammography Screening, March 24, 2010
Medical Professionalism: What’s trust (not truth) got to do with it?, Gary Pettett, MD, November 10, 2009
What happens to Jesus if I donate my heart?, Terry Rosell, PhD, DMin, Rosemary Flanigan Chair, September 23, 2009
The Role of Conscience in Medical Decisions, Daniel Sulmasy, OFM, MD, PhD
Religion. Healthcare. Do the Twain Meet?, Sister Rosemary Flanigan, July 8, 2009
A Physician’s Reflections on Bioethics, Robert Potter, MD, April 6, 2009
Ethical Issues Related to Organ Donation After Cardiac Arrest, David Magnus, PhD, Podcast
Legalization of Physician Aid in Dying: An Inevitability, An Error, or Both?, Alan Meisel, JD, Podcast
The World According to Autism: Ethical and Social Issues in the Condition that is Reshaping Humanity, Glenn McGee, PhD, Podcast
Pain and Palliative Care
The Politics of Palliative Care, Kathleen M. Foley, MD, Flanigan Lecture – August 3, 2010
Research Ethics
Pediatric Research – Money, Motives and Morals, Eric Kodish, MD, Podcast
Miscellaneous
Remove Hot Button Issues from Public Discourse, John C. Danforth, May 7, 2009
Celebrating with Frontliners, Hob Osterlund, RN, 34 minutes 39 seconds, September 8, 2009
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