Important Issues in Health Ethics
The issues facing our society and health care providers today are vast and complex. In many situations the need for knowledge of the issue at hand is the key to making the right decision. Listed below are some of the important issues we are facing and a description of each topic.
Foundational Issues:
Pandemic Issues:
- Click here to access general materials.
- Critical Resource Triage
- MU Health Care Critical Resource Triage
- 2020: MU Center for Health Ethics Response to COVID-19
- Missouri Hospital Association Framework for Managing the 2020 COVID-19 Pandemic Response
Major Controversies:
- Abortion
- Access in Missouri
- Advance Directives and Surrogate Decision Making
- Advance Planning for Health Care
- Advanced Care Planning for Nursing Home Residents with End Stage Renal Disease
- Animal Research
- Confidentiality
- Do Not Attempt Resuscitation (DNAR)
- Euthanasia
- Gene Therapy and Genetic Engineering
- Genetic Testing and Screening
- Health Care Access
- Health Care Act
- Historic Times
- Human Research
- Informed Consent
- Multicultural Medicine
- Organ Acquisition
- Organ Transplantation
- Payment and Obligations
- Physician and Nurse Relations
- Pleuripotent Cells
- Profession
- Rationing Flu Vaccines
- The Provider and Patient Relationship
- Treating Children
- Truth Telling
- Uninsured and Access
