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Scholarship at the Center for Health Policy and Ethics responds to the challenge of ethical issues raised by the health care system, patient care, and public health. The multidisciplinary nature of the Center for Health Policy and Ethics encourages a variety of perspectives and resources for topics of scholarly inquiry, conceptual analysis, and discussion. The research interests of the faculty of the Center reflect the stereoscopic vision implied in its name – the ethics of both health policy and health care. Global topics of public policy as well as the traditional details of clinical decision making are addressed.
Areas of substantial research are (1) ethical issues at the
end of life, palliative care and chronicity; and (2) issues of
justice. Scholarly products of the Center have included
guidelines for confidentiality in pediatric AIDS, contributions
to the second and third edition of the field’s standard
encyclopedia, analyses of values at stake in managed care,
health care reform, ethical and legal aspects of home care and
hospice, and materials related to the scholarship of teaching
and learning in ethics education in all of the health sciences
represented on the Creighton campus.