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Ethics is a philosophical discipline pertaining to notions of good and bad, right and wrong — our moral life in community. Bioethics is the application of ethics to the field of medicine and healthcare. Ethicists and bioethicists ask relevant questions more than provide sure and certain answers.
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June 25 2024 Email Newsletter
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Ethics Dispatch June 2024
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Employer-Supported Professional Development: A Personal Perspective
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May 21 2024 Email Newsletter
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April 17 2024 Email Newsletter
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The Center’s 40th Anniversary Celebration Success
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March 25 2024 Email Newsletter
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March 12 2024 Email Newsletter
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Ethics Dispatch February 2024
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February 9 2024 Email Newsletter
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AI Ethics and the Productivity Trap
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January 30 2024 Email Newsletter
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Ethics Dispatch January 2024
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What I Wish I Had Known Then and What I Know Now about Ethics Consultation
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January 9 2024 Email Newsletter
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Volunteer Profile: A Physician’s Dedication to Ethics from the Bedside to Boardroom
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Advance Care Planning: Responding to the Need for Diverse Communities’ Participation
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November 28 2023 Email Newsletter
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Clinical Ethics Consultation: How I Make a Difference on the Worst Days in People’s Lives
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Medical Ethics and AI in Healthcare: A Fireside Chat
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Your Life, Your Death: Sharing Your Final Wishes with Your Loved Ones
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October 12 2023 Email Newsletter
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Public Deliberation: An Alternative to Politics as Usual
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Dr. Jarrett Mentors NIH Researcher
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Medical Ethics and Why It Matters
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September 26 2023 Email Newsletter
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Their Child Died Because People in Charge Didn’t Listen
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Ethics Dispatch September 2023
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September 14 2023 Email Newsletter
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What Is Health Equity?
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August 2023 Monthly Email Newsletter
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24 Hours in the Life of a Bioethicist
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Catholic Bioethics and Conscientious Objection: Implementing Catholic Directives within Secular Healthcare
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Rural Public Health Ethics: Making the Case for Medicaid Expansion
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Governor Parson Signs Measures Recognizing TPOPP/POLST as Equivalent to Missouri Out of Hospital Do Not Resuscitate Order
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Dr. Blacksher Discusses Civic Health and Democratic Deliberation in Podcast
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June 2023 Monthly Email Newsletter
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Respecting Autonomy
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May 2023 Monthly Email Newsletter
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Bard AI Writes a Poem on Bioethics Center
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Kudos to Authors: End-of-Life Ethics in a Changing World
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Clinical Ethicists: Providing Guidance at the Crossroads of Decision
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When the health care system fails women, Kansas City community workers try to bridge the gap
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Bioethics Newsletter Winter Spring 2023
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April 2023 Monthly Email Newsletter
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Ethics Perspective on a Controversial Innovation to Recover Donor Hearts for Transplantation
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Violence Against Kansas Healthcare Workers Prompts Fresh Push for Tougher Penalties
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March 2023 Monthly Email Newsletter
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February 2023 Monthly Email Newsletter
Monica Delles February 23, 2023February 2023 Bioethics Bulletin If you would like to receive these monthly bulletins, please sign up HERE. ...
A Benefit of Being an Ethics Services Affiliate Organization: The Monthly Ethics Dispatch
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Short Video Released About the Center’s Values
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Center Bioethicist, Ryan Pferdehirt, Remarks on the Future on Cancer Testings
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Healthcare Workplace Violence An Appeal for Proven Preventive Measures
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January 2023 Monthly Email Newsletter
Monica Delles January 26, 2023January 2023 Bioethics Bulletin If you would like to receive these monthly bulletins, please sign up HERE. ...
Four Recommendations for Ethical AI in Healthcare
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New Center for Practical Bioethics President and CEO Will Focus on Health-Related Social Needs
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Cries for help arrive that you can answer
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Huddling with physicians facing morally challenging dilemmas
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December 2022 Monthly Email Newsletter
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Help us break down structural and systemic racism in healthcare
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Friends and Family Join in Retirement Celebration
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If you believe all families deserve the same level of care…
Monica Delles December 9, 2022A personal message from Diane Gallagher Dear CPB Friend: As parents of a child ...
Why you should care about healthcare ethics committees
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Your healthcare depends on good communication
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November 2022 Monthly Email Newsletter
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You can fight vitriol and gridlock in solving healthcare problems
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Advance Care Planning helped our family and can help yours too
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You help relieve sister’s worries about cancer care
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Why you should care about the wild west of AI in healthcare
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You can reduce bias posed by AI in healthcare
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Latino families need your support for better healthcare
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October 2022 Monthly Email Newsletter
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Ann Karty and the Enduring Impact of Bioethics Case Studies
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Avatar of Shared Decision Making in Healthcare
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You Bring Ethics into Life-and-Death Decisions
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Dobbs heightened need for your support for ethics in healthcare
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Bioethics Newsletter Summer/Fall 2022
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September 2022 Monthly Email Newsletter
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Interns at the Center: Give and Gain Practical Experience
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John G. Carney: A Career in Ethics
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August 2022 Monthly Email Newsletter
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Ethical Considerations, Precepts, and Recommendations in a Post-Dobbs World
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Changing False Narratives in Public Health
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Healthcare Ethics in the Era of Dobbs v. Jackson
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America’s Nursing Crisis: Suggestions on What Should Be Done
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Ethical AI Project in a BioNexus KC Blog
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A Philosopher Who Does Bioethics
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Hundreds Connect with Voices of the Unheard
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CEO John Carney Honored by Missouri Hospice & Palliative Care Association
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Exhibit and Fundraiser at Leedy Voulkos Art Center: “Art of the Wish”
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Art Exhibit Supporting the Center Celebrates Wishes of Older Adults
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Exhibit Celebrating the Wishes of Elders Evokes Strong Emotions
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Bioethics Newsletter Winter-Spring 2022
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2022 Vision to Action Award
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In Times Like These
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Our CEO quoted in news article: Man denied heart transplant because he won’t get vaccinated against COVID
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IN MEMORY of Sarah (Liza) Rowland Townsend, JD, MSW
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Monica Delles October 28, 2021US experts tackle ethical dilemmas posed by the vaccine rollout March 15, 2021 Featuring Terry Rosell, PhD Al ...
Meatpacking plant workers prioritized for vaccines
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The Center for Practical Bioethics helps guide families and doctors during the pandemic
Monica Delles October 28, 2021The Center for Practical Bioethics is helping guide families and doctors during the pandemic August 18, 2020 ...
Our Inability to Hear and Breathe Freely – A message from Our Board and Staff
Monica Delles October 28, 2021Our Inability to Hear and Breathe Freely – A message from Our Board and Staff June 5, 2020 ...
Erika Blacksher, PhD, Named Fourth John B. Francis Chair in Bioethics
Monica Delles October 28, 2021Erika Blacksher, PhD, Named Fourth John B. Francis Chair in Bioethics The Center for Practical Bioethics in K ...
Sunflower Foundation awards $200,000 grant to better understand elder abuse in Kansas
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Lifetime Achievement in Bioethics
Monica Delles October 28, 2021Lifetime Achievement in Bioethics Center for Practical Bioethics Founding Executive Myra Christopher Honor ...
Former DHHS Assistant Secretary Joins the Center Staff
Monica Delles October 28, 2021Former DHHS Assistant Secretary Joins the Center Staff A major boost to its three-decade commitment to ...
Rosemary Flanigan Named to Starr Women’s Hall of Fame
Monica Delles October 28, 2021Rosemary Flanigan Named to Starr Women’s Hall of Fame The Center is honored that Rosemary Flanigan, PhD, as ...
KCP&L Offers New Employee Benefit
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Current Issues in Bioethics Lecture Series
Monica Delles October 28, 2021Current Issues in Bioethics Lecture Series Co-Sponsored by the Center and Kansas City University of Medicine ...
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Monica Delles October 28, 2021Nancy Cruzan’s Legacy: Open Talk About Death With Dignity Removal of her feeding tube 25 years ago end ...
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Kansas Citians with Chronic Pain Take Their Plight Public
Monica Delles October 28, 2021Kansas Citians with Chronic Pain Take Their Plight Public “We don’t call them sufferers. We don’t ...
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Death and dying: An emerging conversation
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Death and dying: Expanding palliative care
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Expert hails Medicare proposal to reimburse end-of-life counseling
Monica Delles October 28, 2021Expert hails Medicare proposal to reimburse end-of-life counseling KU palliative care doctor says plan r ...
Death and dying: Advocates seek state laws
Monica Delles October 28, 2021Death and dying: Advocates seek state laws Debate of ‘death with dignity’ legislation spreads across ...
Truly the Best Business of the Year Award
Monica Delles October 28, 2021Truly the Best Business of the Year Award MetroCare wins the Lee’s Summit Chamber’s non-prof ...
Attorney General Supports Center’s Position on TPOPP
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Brittany Maynard’s Choice to End Her Life Raises Profound Questions
Monica Delles October 28, 2021Brittany Maynard’s Choice to End Her Life Raises Profound Questions John Carney, President & CEO of the C ...
5 Things to Know About Death and Dying Debates
Monica Delles October 28, 20215 Things to Know About Death and Dying Debates Cathy Lynn Grossman, senior national correspondent for Religion ...
Myra Christopher Named to Starr Hall of Fame
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Will a ‘vaccine passport’ be required to travel? As idea grows, travelers have mixed reactions
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Bioethics Newsletter Summer-Fall 2021
Danielle Lehman October 21, 2021Bioethics Newsletter Summer-Fall 2021 The pandemic brought America face-to-face with the impacts of disparities ...
Should Doctors Refuse to Treat Unvaccinated People?
Monica Delles August 23, 2021ETHICISTS DEBATE Should Doctors Refuse to Treat Unvaccinated People? A story appeared on August 17 in the Alabama News w ...
Bioethics Newsletter Winter-Spring 2021
Danielle Lehman March 27, 2021Bioethics Newsletter Winter-Spring 2021 The coronavirus pandemic has informed our collective conscience about w ...
Bioethics Newsletter Summer-Fall 2020
Danielle Lehman October 27, 2020Bioethics Newsletter Summer-Fall 2020 From the mid-1980s when ventilators came into common use, the Center for ...
Bioethics Newsletter Winter-Spring 2020
Danielle Lehman March 27, 2020Bioethics Newsletter Winter-Spring 2020 People don’t like to talk about politics, religion or money. To that ...
Bioethics Newsletter Summer-Fall 2019
Danielle Lehman October 27, 2019Bioethics Newsletter Summer-Fall 2019 A 52-year old African American woman with chronic obstructive pulmonary d ...
Bioethics Newsletter Winter-Spring 2019
Danielle Lehman March 27, 2019Bioethics Newsletter Winter-Spring 2019 Celebrating our 35th anniversary. View the Newsletter ...
Bioethics Newsletter Summer-Fall 2018
Danielle Lehman October 27, 2018Bioethics Newsletter Summer-Fall 2018 Let’s go to the movies! Bioethics film series. View the Newsl ...
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Monday, September 30, 2024
“Will AI Health Apps Make Us Healthier?” is the topic of the Center’s 30th Annual Rosemary Flanigan Lecture on September 30, 2024. The lecture, presented by Anita Ho, bioethicist, author, and clinical professor, will weigh the ethical pros and cons of AI in personal healthcare. Attend in-person in Kansas City or virtually on YouTube.
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