Two challenges for the Democratic Party Feb 23, 2008
Madison Powers is a Senior Research Scholar at the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Georgetown University. His column appears on CQ Politics every Thursday. (Yahoo News)
But I Don't Want a Rectal Exam! Jan 22, 2008
Explainer thanks Ruth Faden of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics, Alan Meisel and Patricia Sweeney of the University of Pittsburgh, Philip Rosoff of the Trent Center for Bioethics, Humanities & History of Medicine, and Robert Veatch of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics. Related in SlateMichelle Tsai asked when the government can its citizens. (Slate)
When to let go? Medicine's top dilemma Jul 18, 2007
"We have to ask when to provide care, when to stop care, when care is futile," she said during a recent bioethics course for health care professionals at Georgetown University's Kennedy Institute of Ethics. TECHNOLOGY AHEAD OF MORALS. (Scientific American)
Hilton Sandcastles pianist a delight Jun 8, 2007
He worked through the Kennedy Institute of Ethics while in Georgetown and developed a specialization in medical ethics. In addition to teaching, he is the director of the Center for Ethics at Hodges University. (Marco Island Sun-Times, FL)
A heart surgery scandal revisits Redding in print Feb 19, 2007
" It has been two years since the owner of Redding Medical Center, Tenet Healthcare Corp., agreed to pay more than $300 million to settle lawsuits from patients who said Moon and another doctor at the hospital, Fidel Realyvasquez, coerced them into surgeries. There was no criminal prosecution, but neither doctor is believed to be practicing medicine. The hospital has also changed owners and received a face-lift of new paint, but a new book that chronicles the story of Moon, Realyvasquez and... (San Francisco Chronicle)
U medical professor named to U.S. health and human services panel Aug 29, 2006
He received a master's of public health at Johns Hopkins University and a fellow of law, ethics and health in affiliation with the Kennedy Institute of Ethics at Georgetown. Page 1 of 1. (Daily Utah Chronicle, UT)
