Pediatric Ethics: Lessons for Grown Ups featuring Eric Kodish, M.D.
Department: Minor in Medical Humanities
Date and Time: February 13, 2017 | 6:00 PM-8:00 PMEvent Location: Tamkin Hall, UCI School of Medicine
Event Details
There are fundamental differences in how to think about medical ethics when the issues involve children in contract to competent adult parents. This difference goes beyond the simple distinction around decision making capacity, and prompts consideration of concepts like respect for persons, an ethic of care, and family-centered approaches that resonate in pediatric ethics. Perhaps most emblematic of this contrast is the concept of “assent,” a distinctive feature of pediatric ethics. In this lecture, Dr. Kodish will argue the somewhat radical conclusion that adult medical ethics has a lot to learn form its pediatric counterpart.
Date: Monday, February 13, 2017
Reception: 6:00 p.m. light refreshments followed by lecture at 6:30 – 8:00 p.m.
Location: Tamkin Hall, UCI School of Medicine
Parking: Parking is free at Gottschalk Medical Plaza, 1 Medical Plaza Drive, Irvine, CA 92697. Park in the numbered patient stalls (Directions).
The event is free and open to the public.
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About the Speaker
Eric Kodish, M.D. is the F.J. O’Neill Professor and Chairman of the Department of Bioethics at the Cleveland Clinic Foundation, and Professor of Pediatrics at the Lerner College of Medicine of Case Western Reserve University. After fellowships at the University of Chicago in both pediatric hematology-oncology and medical ethics, he joined the staff at Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital, where he was the founding director of the Rainbow Center for Pediatric Ethics. His areas of expertise include childhood cancer and blood diseases, pediatric ethics, end-of-life issues, and research ethics.