Chinatown Health Promoter Program by the Institute of Clinical Bioethics at St. Joseph’s University
The Journal of the Philadelphia County Dental Society article about the Chinatown Health Promoter Program.
Saint Joseph’s Summer Scholar is Changing How People View Informed Consent
A rising senior at Saint Joseph’s wants to change how patients and doctors discuss the potential benefits and drawbacks of a complex heart and lung procedure. by Kevin Gfeller ’20 | August 24, 2023 A patient with acute respiratory distress syndrome is admitted to a hospital in dire need of a lung transplant. Doctors recommend putting …
Rural Health Promoter: The Blueberry Farms
Andren Chen, Benjamin Gabrieliants, Caroline Curtin, Adamya Aggarwal, and Joseph Kelly The Rural/Mobile Health Promoter was designed in collaboration with the Consulate of Mexico in Philadelphia to provide rural Hispanic communities of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware with access to basic primary care and education, promoting their health and wellbeing. The Promoter provides medical screenings, …
Ethical Analysis of Uterine Transplants
Many ethicists have called for a public debate on the issue of uterine transplantation that would examine all aspects of it including the ethical and moral implications. These issues include whether uterine transplants should be from live donors or deceased donors.
Ethical Analysis of Genetically Modified Pig Kidneys in Humans
The issue of xenotransplantation has raised serious interdisciplinary concerns. Many have called for a continued public debate on the issue of xenotransplantation, especially genetically modified pig kidneys for human transplants, that would examine all aspects of it including the crucial ethical and moral implications.
What is the Catholic Church’s position on extraordinary/ordinary means of treatment and care?
Today it is very important to protect, at the moment of death, both the dignity of the human person and the Christian concept of life, against a technological attitude that threatens to become an abuse.