Pediatric Ethics provides insights from leaders in pediatric ethics regarding hot topics and current controversies. Presented by the Children's Mercy Bioethics Center.
-
Equity, inclusion and cultural humility: contemporizing the neonatal intensive care unit family-centered care model
Stephanie Kukora and Beatrice Lechner
In this episode, Dr. Beatriuce Lechner will lead a discussion about her project from the course, which was recently published in the Journal of Perinatology, entitled Equity, Inclusion, and Cultural Humility, Contemporizing the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Family Centered Care Model.
-
Bridging Complex Clinician-Patient Dynamics Arising in Neonatal ICU Care in Ethiopia
Stephanie Kukora, Mahlet Abayneh, and Redeat Workneh
In this episode, Redeat Workneh leads a discussion focusing on navigating barriers between clinicians and patients in Ethiopia.
-
Medical Improv and its Potential in Teaching Skills Related to Bioethics
Stephanie Kukora and Tanya Arora
In this episode, Dr. Tanya Arora leads a discussion focusing on medical improv.
-
Developing a Community-Led Rare Disease ELSI Research Agenda
Jeremy R. Garrett, Courtney D. Berrios, and Kimberly Freeman
In this episode, Dr. Jeremy Garrett is joined by Courtney Berrios and Kimberly Freeman. They will be discussing the topic of pediatric rare diseases and the development of a community-led research agenda for better understanding the needs and priorities of patients and families living with rare diseases.
-
Ethics in Ethiopia: Navigating Challenges in Pediatric Clinical Care
Stephanie Kukora and Betty Kassa
In this episode, Dr. Betty Kassa, who will lead a discussion focusing on international medical care, and what being a practicing pediatric intensivist is like in Ethiopia.
-
Disagreement and Ethical Decision Making in Pediatric Emergency Care
Jeremy R. Garrett, Ian Wolfe, and Joseph Shapiro
In this episode, Dr. Ian Wolfe, editor-in-chief of the Journal of Pediatric Ethics, moderates a discussion with Drs. Joseph Shapiro and Jeremy Garrett breaking down their recent article on decision-making in Pediatric Emergency Care from the pages of the Fall issue of JPE.
-
Does Relational-Potential Carry Any Ethical Relevance in Pediatrics?
Jeremy R. Garrett and Ian D. Wolfe
In this episode, Dr. Ian Wolfe leads a discussion focusing on the concept of a child's relational potential and the role that this concept might play in certain pediatric cases.
-
Broadening the Definition of Moral Injury: Ethical Implications for Clinical Practice
R. Dawn Hood-Patterson and Joshua Morris
In this episode Dawn Hood-Patterson will talk with Joshua Morris, MDiv, PhD, BCC about moral injury. Dr. Morris will expand the definition of moral injury, once reserved for use with military personnel and service members, into healthcare and clinical settings. Dr. Morris will highlight way in which moral injury nuances our understanding of traumatic experiences. He will help us, fellow clinicians and the larger public, better honor the experience of those encountering moral injurious events.
-
The Ethics of Corpse Care
R. Dawn Hood-Patterson and Cody Sanders
Rev. Cody Sanders, PhD will delineate what providers and ethicists can learn about life and relationships from tending the corpse. Death is an unavoidable part of the human experience and Dr. Sanders will describe what professionals should consider when caring for the bodies of the dead and dying.
-
Considering the Ethical Roles We Play as Clinicians and Parents
Jeremy R. Garrett, Bryanna Moore, and DeeJo Miller
In this episode, Dr. Bryanna Moore and Dr. DeeJo Miller lead an interactive discussion focusing on Bryanna Moore's recent published article, "Exploring the Ethics of the Parental Role in Parent-Clinician Conflict"
-
Hope and Spirituality in Bioethics
Brian S. Carter and R. Dawn Hood-Patterson
On this episode, Brian Carter and Dawn Hood-Patterson will discuss the role of hope and spirituality in bioethics.
-
Zone of Parental Discretion
John Lantos and Lynn Gillam
The zone of parental discretion: an ethical tool for dealing with disagreement between parents and doctors about medical treatment for a child.
-
Discussion on Dysthanasia
John Lantos and Jonna Clark
Dr. Joanna Clark leads a discussion on dysthanasia.
-
New Book: Catastrophic Rupture: A Memoir of Healing
John Lantos and Jane Lee
Dr. Jane Lee, associate professor of pediatrics in the Medical College of Wisconsin's Complex Care department, discusses her new book Catastrophic Rupture: A Memoir of Healing.
-
Recent book: "A Theory of Bioethics"
John Lantos and Joseph Millum
Joseph Millum is the author of a new book about a new theory for bioethics. The volume offers a carefully argued, compelling theory of bioethics while eliciting practical implications for a wide array of issues including medical assistance-in-dying, the right to health care, abortion, animal research, and the definition of death. The authors’ dual value theory features mid-level principles, a distinctive model of moral status, a subjective account of well-being, and a cosmopolitan view of global justice. In addition to ethical theory, the book investigates the nature of harm and autonomous action, personal identity theory, and the “non-identity problem” associated with many procreative decisions.
-
Neurologists Role in Eugenics
John Lantos and Pedro Weisleder
Dr. Weisleder discusses the role that neurologists played in the eugenics movements of the twentieth century.
-
Raising a Child with HLHS
John Lantos and Wendy Hind
After her son was born with a life-threatening congenital heart condition, Wendy Hind, Ph.D., J.D., began using poetry and essay as a form of narrative medicine - it's her way of expressing herself and connecting to others through issues of health and healing. She is the founder and curator of #tinypoetryproject - short poems posted weekly as narrative medicine for the soul.
Wendy is also a former university vice president, professor, policy advisor, and attorney. She has published health related poems and essays in several journals including, The Healing Muse, Blood and Thunder, and Hektoen International. -
Shots, Jabs, or Immunizations: Words Matter
John Lantos and Brian S. Carter
Dr. Carter discusses the ways words shape our perceptions of medical interventions, and why there are hesitations with immunization.
-
Should Children Get A New COVID Vaccine
John Lantos and Angela Myers
Dr. Angela Myers discusses whether or not children should receive the new COVID-19 vaccine.
-
COVID Vaccines and Children
John Lantos and Barbara A. Pahud
Dr. Barbara Pahud discusses ethical questions concerning the COVID-19 vaccine(s) and children.
-
School Nurses and COVID
John Lantos, Vanessa Watkins, Jeremy R. Garrett, and Shelby Rebeck
In this three-person panel, Shelby Rebeck MSN, RN, Dr. Jeremy Garrett, and Vanessa Watkins, MPH discuss how school nurses are handling COVID-19.
-
Working From Home
John Lantos, Vanessa Watkins, Jeremy R. Garrett, and Alaina N. Burns
Dr. Jeremy Garrett, Vanessa Watkins MPH, Alaina Burns, PharmD discuss finding a work-life balance during the pandemic.
-
Work-Life Balance in the COVID Era: Sending Your Kids to School vs Remote Learning
John Lantos, Vanessa Watkins, and Jeremy R. Garrett
In this panel interview, Dr. Jeremy Garrett and Vanessa Watkins, MPH, discuss the decisions parents are facing regarding sending their children to school and what the best approach is for their child's education.
-
COVID Vaccine Hesitancy and Public Health
John Lantos and Phoebe Danziger
Dr. Phoebe Danziger discusses the possible pushback from a COVID-19 vaccine, and how to overcome doubts of the safety and efficacy of a new vaccine.
-
Should We Send Kids to School This Fall
John Lantos and Nathaniel Beers
Dr. Nathaniel Beers discusses the ethical, epidemiological, economic, and emotional issues surrounding the conversation on whether or not children should return to school or resume online learning.
