The Ashford Institute Applied Bioethics Summer Conference
Our 2019 Summer Conference is underway, but you can still find information regarding speakers, topics and schedules.
Check back here for future educational opportunities.
This conference examines important multi-disciplinary issues in which medicine, social work, psychology, and pastoral ministry each have important contributions to make, and which include ethical dimensions. In order to make ethical decisions about specific issues in health care, it is essential to first have an understanding of these issues, including current research and the lived experience of patients and clinicians, as well as an understanding of ethical principles. This conference will focus on practical solutions to multidisciplinary clinical issues including:
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Informed Consent.
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Ethics in Health Care Research.
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Intimate Partner Violence.
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Human Trafficking.
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Substance abuse during pregnancy.
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Resources for social, emotional, spiritual and economic challenges in pregnancy.
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Reproductive losses (miscarriage, abortion, etc.) and the recovery process.
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Ethical issues in fertility treatments including egg donations.
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Perinatal Hospice for Parents of Children with Life-Limiting Diagnoses.
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Ethical issues in assessing and addressing spiritual needs of patients.
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Provision of health care in resource rich vs. resource poor nations.
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Hippocratic Medicine.