Emerging Topics in Catholic Health Care Ethics Webinar Series 5

A Clinical Ethics Webinar Series Co-sponsored by the Catholic Health Association in cooperation with
Georgetown University, Loyola University Chicago, Saint Louis University, Australian Catholic University, and Boston College

In our ongoing commitment to provide timely, relevant information about emerging issues for Catholic health care, the Catholic Health Association is offering a monthly series of webinars to address and clarify critical ethical issues in caring for patients and families in Catholic hospitals, long-term care facilities and medical centers nationwide.      

Each 45-minute session will examine the implications of a specific critical issue in clinical and organizational ethics in the context of Catholic Social Teaching and the Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services (ERDs).

Emerging Topics in Catholic Health Care Ethics Series 5, Session 6
Disability Bioethics: A Resource for Catholic Health Care

This presentation considers how the developing field of disability bioethics might resonate with the mission and commitments of Catholic health care. Illustrating how broader trends in medicine, technology, and health care policy often adopt and perpetuate negative framings of disability, it suggests that disability bioethics and resources from Catholic social teaching together offer more complex and inclusive ways of understanding health and human flourishing.

Presenter

Brian Kane, Ph.D.
Senior Director, Ethics
Catholic Health Association of the United States

Emma Kennedy, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor, Christian Ethics
Villanova University