Crowded Out: The Costs and Consequences of Crowdfunding Healthcare

Please join the Bioethics and Humanities Department for a Grand Rounds presentation by Nora Kenworthy, PhD: Crowded Out: The Costs and Consequences of Crowdfunding Healthcare. Dr. Kenworthy will summarize a decade of mixed-methods research on the use of crowdfunding for health care, highlighting core ethical issues with this increasingly popular strategy for helping pay for care.

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Summer Seminar in Healthcare Ethics, July 29-31, 2024

The annual Summer Seminar is an intensive, interactive introduction to the 'four-box method' of analysis of ethical problems in clinical ethics, developed by Jonsen, Siegler, and Winslade in their book Clinical Ethics. The Seminar also addresses elements of the Core Competencies in Health Care Ethics Consultation and can help attendees prepare for the healthcare ethics consultation certification exam.  

Building Bridges: Uniting Permanent Supportive Housing, Healthcare, and Social Services for Ethical Impact | HMC Ethics Forum

Learn about what Plymouth Housing is doing to bridge efforts between the housing, healthcare and social services sector to better serve our unhoused community. Learn how structural changes made between these sectors can create greater ethical impact while improving health outcomes, quality of life, and equity.

Objectives:

1. Identify at least 3 major ethical concerns related to integration of health/behavioral health services in PSH.

Redlining in Medicine | Harborview Ethics Forum

This month’s forum, Redlining in Medicine, features three amazing speakers: Sherronda Jamerson, MA, SUDP, Sharon Reed, RN, MSN, BSN, AAACN, and Natalie McCarthy, JD. They will be presenting on cases that have been reported with concern for raced based discrimination and harm affecting our black patients with a goal of helping promote an equitable approach to healthcare. 

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Crowded Out: The Costs and Consequences of Crowdfunding Healthcare | Bioethics Grand Rounds

Please join the Bioethics and Humanities Department on Zoom for a Grand Rounds presentation by Nora Kenworthy, PhD: Crowded Out: The Costs and Consequences of Crowdfunding Healthcare. Dr. Kenworthy will summarize a decade of mixed-methods research on the use of crowdfunding for health care, highlighting core ethical issues with this increasingly popular strategy for helping pay for care.

Reproductive Bioethics: A Local and National Perspective | HMC Ethics Forum

This presentation is an overview of timeless and emerging topics in reproductive bioethics, with a focus on topics in education and on recent challenges to patient autonomy and practice.

Objectives:

1. Define reproductive bioethics;

2. Describe unique ethical challenges in teaching and practice;

3. Review recent local and national bioethics cases.

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