ABOUT OUR BIOETHICS CENTER 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 give links to full-text reference material that is in the public domain. For other reference material, we give links to the abstracts.
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.
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At the end of June Cambridge University Press will publish a new book, Guidance for Healthcare Ethics Committees. The book is composed of chapters covering important topics that ethics committees confront, including a chapter by John Lantos titled "Ethical Issues in Neonatology". Each chapter utilizes cases and thought-provoking questions to stimulate committee discussion.
The book is currently available for preorder at:
http://www.cambridge.org/gb/knowledge/isbn/
item6796355/?site_locale=en_GB
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Children’s Mercy Hospital and Clinics Bioethics Center Certificate Program
Children’s Mercy Hospital Bioethics Center is now accepting applications for the 2012-2013 Certificate Program in Pediatric Bioethics. The nine-month course will begin and ends with an intensive three-day weekend on site in Kansas City. For the rest of the year, students and faculty discuss assigned readings on-line and in periodic conference calls and webinars. The program is designed to help students understand common pediatric bioethical issues, including the role of ethics committees, practical techniques in ethics consultation, futility and moral distress, end-of-life decisions, pediatric palliative care, research ethics, biobanking and genetics, enhancement, issues in adolescent medicine, and immunization controversies. You can find a copy of the syllabus here. The focus is exclusively on pediatrics. For additional information, please email either Vanessa Watkins, vswatkins@cmh.edu, or the Bioethics Center, cmbc@cmh.edu.
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Lantos, Brushwood Receive Pellegrino Medals at HEAL Conference