Thursday, August 23, 2012
Guest Column: Rev.
Tarris Rosell, Ph.D., D.Min.,
Rosemary Flanigan
Chair, Center for Practical Bioethics
August 22, 2012
Religions differ on many matters of fact and faith; but
most all of them teach compassion, the virtue of comforting the afflicted, and
accepting the inevitability of physical death. No religion of which I’m aware
condones torture — which is how futile medical treatments often are described
by healthcare providers who feel forced to do things to patients that won’t
help and might harm.
Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Religion and Choosing to End Medical Care
Liz Neporent
ABC News
August 14,
2012
When a child
is seriously ill or injured, parents understandably move heaven and earth to
save them. However, a new study has found that sometimes deeply religious
families test the limits of medical science by asking doctors to go to extremes
to prolong life.
Links:
- Religion. Healthcare Policy. Do the Twain Meet?, Rosemary Flanigan, June 24, 2009
- Religion and Medicine: Compatible?, Farr Curlin, MD and John Lantos, MD, May 14, 2009
Tuesday, August 14, 2012
Making the Moral Case for Health Reform
Art Caplan, PhD |
Virtual Town Hall Meeting on Health Reform
This month the Center for Practical Bioethics is
conducting a Virtual Town Hall Meeting on The Future of Health Reform.
It launched last week with comments from Art Caplan, PhD, who argues the Obama
administration has yet to make the moral case for health reform. For more
information click here.
Link to Poll Question: Has the moral case been made for health reform?
Links to Podcast:
Monday, August 13, 2012
TPOPP Moving Ahead
TPOPP is an acronym for Transportable Physician Orders for Patient Preferences. The Center for Practical Bioethics is working with a number of institutions to incorporate this program for their patients.
This article in the St. Louis Beacon provides an overview.
Robert Joiner
St. Louis Beacon
August 7, 2012
Kansas City area providers are putting into practice what
they have learned about the forms and end-of-life conversations with the
elderly. The Center for Practical Bioethics will later do an evaluation to
determine whether the medical service, ranging from all to none, mirrored the
wishes that the patients expressed on the end-of-life form.
Friday, August 3, 2012
Training a New Generation of Researchers
Kelstan Lynch Ellis
Aaron Heller
One goal of Frontiers: The Heartland Institute for
Translational Research, is to train a new generation of clinical and
translational researchers.
This edition of The
Frontiers Podcast features two medical students who have taken a year out
of their clinical training to study clinical and translational research. For
more information about Frontiers visit www.frontiersresearch.org.
Wednesday, August 1, 2012
July's Top Ten: The Bioethics Channel
The Bioethics Channel podcast generated 3,556 downloads during the month of July. Since launching the program in February 2009, various editions of the program have been downloaded 133,255 times.
If you're interested in having a particular guest or topic on the program, please let us know by emailing me at llaboube@practicalbioethics.org.
Happy listening!
Lorell LaBoube
Director of Communications
Center for Practical Bioethics
July's Top Ten: The Bioethics Channel
If you're interested in having a particular guest or topic on the program, please let us know by emailing me at llaboube@practicalbioethics.org.
Happy listening!
Lorell LaBoube
Director of Communications
Center for Practical Bioethics
July's Top Ten: The Bioethics Channel
- Bioethics: The Next Generation, Emily Abdoler, Brett Kaylor, Daniel Vogelsang
- Removing Kidneys Before Death, Tarris Rosell, PhD
- Autonomy Run Amok? Mary Crowley
- Just the Beginning: The Supreme Court and Ethical Healthcare Reform, John Carney, Myra Christopher, Tarris Rosell
- REMS and Pain, Lynn Webster, MD
- Health Reform: An Ethical Analysis, Rosemary Flanigan, John Carney, Tarris Rosell
- Why do people still suffer at the end of life? Myra Christopher
- End of Life Scare II, John Carney
- Celebrating with Frontliners, Karren King Crouch, Helen Emmott, Jane Rues, and Dianne Shumaker
- Balancing Faith and Politics, John Danforth