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Health care for infants, children is conference topic By Amy Geiszler-Jones Health care for infants and children, and the societal and ethical issues surrounding that care, will be discussed at a conference March 26-27 at WSU’s Rhatigan Student Center. The 5th Annual Health Ethics Conference, “Ethics at the Beginning of Life: Nurturing Life in its Early Stages,” is co-sponsored by WSU, Kansas Health Ethics and the University of Kansas School of Medicine-Wichita. The impact of ethics on pediatric medicine, the effects of technology advancements on the quality of young lives, and reproductive strategies such as cloning and in vitro fertilization will be among the key issues discussed. Special conference speakers include Bonnie Steinbock, who has studied fetal-maternal conflict and reproductive technologies; Dr. John Lantos, who has written and lectured extensively on the subject of resource allocation, epidemiology and rationing in neonatal intensive care units; and Christine Mitchell, a registered nurse who produced the training film “Code Gray: Ethical Dilemma in Nursing.” Steinbock, a philosopher and medical ethicist, will discuss medical technologies and the impact on lives just beginning, at 8:30 a.m. March 26. Steinbock is chair of the philosophy department at the University of Albany, State University of New York. She is part of the American Association for the Advancement of Science project “Exploring the Ethical, Religious and Policy Implications of Human Germline Interventions.” Lantos, a pediatrician and ethicist at the University of Chicago Hospital, will talk about “Life-Sustaining Technologies” at 10:30 a.m. March 26. Lantos also will deliver the pre-conference lecture, “Do We Still Need Doctors?” at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 25, at the Olive Tree Banquet Hall. A 6:30 reception precedes. Lantos’ talk inaugurates the Lloyd Hummer Ethics Lecture, named for the recently retired medical director and president of the Wichita Clinic. The March 25 lecture is free. Mitchell’s talk, “Taking Good Care of Infants in a Technologically Complex World,” will be given at 8:30 a.m. March 27. All three special guests will be part of the panel discussion “The Road Ahead: New Twists to Human Reproduction” at 2:15 p.m. March 26. Other topics to be discussed at the conference include pain management for infants and children, fetal tissue issues, nutrition and hydration issues, and drug abuse in utero. The conference is supported by grants from Via Christi Health System, Wesley Medical Center, Hospice Inc., Medical Society of Sedgwick Society, Foundation for Medical Care, Wesley Medical Research Institutes, Roy C. House Endowed Fund and the Wichita Clinic. To register, call the UKSM-Wichita, 293-2628. Cost is $80 for both days or $55 March 26, $35 Saturday. Fees increase by $10 if registration is received after March 22.
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Perfect Babies’ topic of upcoming lecture Distinguished Professor of Health Ethics Rosemarie Tong from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte will spend a week as a visiting professor at WSU this month. She’ll deliver a free, public lecture, “Making Perfect Babies: Science as Usual or Faustian Experiment,” at 7 p.m. Tuesday, March 9, in 218 Hubbard Hall. While at WSU, Tong will lead weeklong interdisciplinary seminars, involving faculty, students and local physicians, on the topics of global feminism, health care ethics and end-of-life decision-making. Tong has published 11 books and approximately 100 articles, most of which deal with feminist theory. Her recent works combine feminist theory and bioethics. For more information, contact David Soles, ext. 3125, or Dorothy Miller, ext. 3358. — Amy Geiszler-Jones |
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