Thursday, December 4th, 2014 12:00 (noon) - 12:45pm (CST)
Speaker: Ryan Nash, MD, MA, FACP, FAAHPM
The Ebola outbreak of 2014 has caught our society’s attention. Fear, anxiety, and speculation spread as a contagion during a seemingly fleeting media blitz. Though the media has calmed its coverage, clinics, hospitals, and health systems must prepare for the real possibility of caring for persons with the deadly disease. This brief webinar will cover some of the practical ethical considerations that healthcare ethics advisors, clinical ethics consultants, ethics committee members, and administrators may wrestle with in preparing to care for patients with Ebola.
The webinar was sponsored by CBHD's Healthcare Ethics Council—a community of healthcare professionals in affiliation with The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity that recognizes and engages in dignified medical healthcare and professional education in the Judeo-Christian Hippocratic tradition.
News, Journal Articles, and Other Online Resources
Bioethics.com: News, Journal Articles, & Commentaries related to the Ebola Outbreak
Bioethics.com: “Ebola Timeline” compiled by Heather Zeiger
Bioethics.net: “The Ethics of Ebola and Scarce Experimental Drugs” by J.S. Blumenthal-Barby
Boston University Today: “Battling Ebola : The Ethical Issues” by Lisa Chedekel
The Christian Post: “Running Toward the Plague: Christians and Ebola” by Eric Metaxis
The Health Care Blog: “Why the WHO Ethics Advisory Group Is a Start but Hardly Sufficient” by Art Caplan
Journal of Global Infectious Diseases: “The Emergence of Ebola as a Global Health Security Threat: From ‘Lessons Learned’ to Coordinated Multilateral Containment Efforts” by Sarathi Kalra et al., Vol. 6, no. 4 (2014): 164-177.
Medscape: “We Need to Bend Privacy Rules to Stop the Ebola Outbreak” by Art Caplan
