Healthcare Ethics
Mission Statement
The Integritas Institute for Healthcare Ethics at the University of Illinois at Chicago seeks to promote and engage in intellectual exchange through fostering an ongoing discussion of those issues that arise at the intersection of medicine and faith. Such discussion seeks to raise the consciousness of healthcare professionals during their formation and continuing professional development in the following three areas of concern:
- Integrity of the health care provider
- The ethical and just distribution of health care in our society
- Improved care for patients in regard to the non-medical components of the human experience of illness (such as loneliness, suffering, and the inevitability of death)
The Institute will Address:
- Assistance in the spiritual and ethical formation and education of health care professionals
- Reflection on the notion of a just community and the just distribution of health care
- Insight into and exploration of those components of the human experience of illness which transcend the science of medicine
Healthcare Ethics Events
- February 26,2008 - 7th Annual Human Dignity and Health Science Conference: 8:00am - 3:00pm
To Register Medical technology, Hope and Futility... Ethical Decisions and Care at the End of Life
The 7th Annual Healthcare Conference on Human Dignity and Health Science will examine the ethics of advanced technology applied to the end of life. The many facets of death are explored by leading ethicists and practitioners including: the mystery of death, determining the moment of death, partial brain death, telling truth to the dying, euthanasia, ordinary and extraordinary means to prolong life, allowing a person to die, proxy consent, persistent vegetative state and advanced dementia, pain and dying, and palliative hospice care.
How much technology is replacing the dying person’s precious moments of personal relationship? Does advanced technology deny this relationship closure and opportunity for spiritual growth? Is technology applied to stave off impending death only because of a fear to die? What role does the doctor play in offering technology to a futile situation and what right does the patient have to be offered advanced techniques? Should the advancement of medicine be reason to offer new and advanced technologies without specific evidence of success? Does a patient have a right to choose to die? How does palliative care support the dignity of the person? These are a few of the questions to be explored in the 7th Annual Healthcare Conference on Human Dignity and Health Science, Medical Technology, Hope and Futility...Ethical Decisions and Care at the End of Life.
College of Medicine Events
12:30pm - 1:30pm- UIC West Campus College of Medicine, West Tower, Room 119A- October 3,2007 - Pedeatric Death in the ER
- Speaker: William Ahren, MD - October 18,2007 - The Ethics of the Hippocratic Oath
- Speaker: John Brehany, MD - November 15,2007 - Pediatric Informed Consent and the Baby Ashley Dilemma
- Speaker: Mary Lou Schmidt, MD and Lisa Anderson Shaw, Dr.PH, MA, MSN - January 16, 2008 - Ethics of Transplantation
- Speaker: Timothy Murphy, MD - February 13, 2008 - Conflicts of Interest in Medicine
- Speaker: Eugene Diamond, MD - March 12, 2008 - How to Give Bad News and Maintain Hope
- Speaker: Dr. MacIntire
College of Nursing Events
12:00pm - 1:00pm - College of Nursing, Nurses' Lounge, 3rd Floor- Rescheduled - Errors in Healthcare: A Nurse's role in "Full Disclosure"
- Speaker: Timothy B. McDonald, MD, JD - November 26,2007 - Cord Blood Donation
- Speaker: Louise Simonson