Welcome to the Children's Mercy Bioethics Center Website
We have developed some tools for clinicians and teachers to help analyze ethical issues that arise in pediatrics.
For each of the topic areas on the right, we offer a brief introduction to the ethical issues, a power point presentation to use in your teaching, interviews with leading figures in the field about those issues, and an annotated list of references.
We will be adding topics all the time. If you have an issue that you’d like us to address, or feedback on the materials we’ve developed, please contact us. All of the original materials can be used without permission. Please give us credit, though, and send colleagues our way.
We give links to full-text reference material that is in the public domain. For other reference material, we give links to abstracts.
On Sept 10th, we welcomed the first students in our Pediatric Bioethics Certificate Program. Students came from the U.S. and Canada, from medicine, nursing, social work, chaplaincy and hospital administration. The for the first year is online.
We are now accepting applications for the 2012-13 class. The deadline for applications is March 1, 2012, but we will consider applications and make decisions about acceptance as they are received. The tentative syllabus for 2012-13 is here. A brief descriiption of the program is here.
Controversial Bodies: Thoughts on the Public Display of Plastinated Corpses, by John Lantos MD, co-author and editor, is now available. The display of plastinated bodies has spurred mixed reactions around the world. Here you will read essays on these displays covering various perspectives on the subject.
http://books.google.com/books/about/Controversial_Bodies.html?id=90YfKQEACAAJ
http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/controversial-bodies-john-d-lantos/1100640507
Controversies in Neonatal Clinical Care, Josh Petrikin, MD, CMH&C Neonatology, meeting organizer
Debate: Joel Frader, MD and William Meadow, MD, "Are 'slow codes' ever ethically acceptable?", Moderator: John Lantos, MD (AAP District VI Section on Perinatal Pediatrics Neonatology Meeting, September 16-17, 2011 Chicago, IL) Meadow W, Lantos J. Re-animating the 'slow code'. Acta Paediatr. 2011 Aug;100(8):1077-8
Listen to Podcast of John Lantos, November 14, 2011, "Resuscitate the Slow Code?"
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The Link is a monthly publication of Children's Mercy Hospitals & Clinics, headed by Mary Anne Jackson, MD, Section Chief of Infectious Diseases. The articles contained in this are written by CMH&C physicians and employees, and address timely issues in pediatric medicine. Starting in January, 2011 the Children's Mercy Bioethics Center has contributed monthly articles for publication.