Bioethics and the Underserved: Culture, Values, and Justice
St. Joseph Medical Center
1000 Carondelet Drive,
Kansas City, Missouri
July 26, 2011
There is much in contemporary health care that is ripe for transformation, including
bioethics.
Standard bioethics codified in the ethical principles of "autonomy, beneficence,
non-malfeasance, and justice" needs to be challenged as too limiting a framework for
analyzing and responding to ethical and moral issues raised by the problems of
inadequate health care for many.
In this lecture, Dr. Richard Payne, M.D., discusses how medical professionals might consider a wider perspective of bioethics that encompasses cultural narratives and perspectives that should enhance richer and more robust dimensions of ethical decision making.
