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Dr. Gina Campelia authored an article featured in Pediatric Ethiscope on the common and distressing challenge of disengagement and non-adherence of adolescent patients with chronic disease potentially leading to life-threatening complications.
HARBORVIEW MEDICAL CENTER ETHICS FORUM “Is dialysis for this patient an appropriate of resources? Let's talk about what we're all thinking.”
Dr. Deb Bowen, Professor of Bioethics & Humanities, and her colleages Dr. Elizabeth Swisher (UW Professor of Obstetrics and Gynecology) and Dr.
Speakers:
Claire Creutzfeldt, MD, Assistant Professor, Neurology
Denise M Dudzinski, PhD, MTS, Professor and Chair, Bioethics & Humanities
James A Fausto, MD, Associate Professor, Family Medicine; Medical Director, Palliative Care
Location: UW Medical Center, Plaza Cafe A/B, 1959 NE Pacific St #110, Seattle, WA 98195
This course is an examination of the ethical problem of allocating scarce medical resources. We will emphasize the fundamental principles of justice that support alternative health policies. Offered jointly with PHIL 411. The first part of the course introduces theories of justice, and considers the support these theories lend to the idea of a right to health care.
This course examines the moral grounds for the view that social inequalities in health are unjust using contemporary literature from moral philosophy and bioethics, case studies, and film. We explore basic questions integral to determinations of social injustice as well as moral constraints on the pursuit of health equity.
This course introduces students to select biotechnology innovations and invites consideration of the ethical and policy implications surrounding their development and potential use.