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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:

  • Ethical Theory
  • Ethics and the Law
  • The Concept of Personhood

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 

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  • Abortion
  • Advance Directives and Surrogate Decision Making
  • Animal Use
  • Concept of Personhood
  • Confidentiality
  • Ethical Theory
  • Ethics and the Law
  • Euthanasia
  • Gene Therapy and Genetic Engineering
  • Genetic Testing and Screening
  • Health Care Access
  • Human Research
  • Informed Consent
  • Multicultural Medicine
  • Organ Acquisition
  • Organ Transplantation
  • Physician and Nurse Relationships
  • Provider-Patient Relationship
  • Treating Minors
  • Truth Telling

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