Educating the Public and Stimulating Debate
on Critical Issues in Patient-Care Ethics
The Center for Ethical Solutions is a non-partisan, non-profit 501(c)(3) tax exempt public charity. We are teaming with leading health-care researchers and ethicists working to inform and involve the public in medical ethics debates that affect their personal healthcare decisions:
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End of Life: The Advance Directive Steward
Helping patients and their families advocate for themselves, including the first ever online interactive decision-making matrix for planning healthcare decisions.
Click here for access to the Advance Directive Steward.
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Solving the Organ Shortage
Understanding available options for solving the organ donor shortage crisis.
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As Time Runs Out: The Steve Lessin Story
An ethnographic documentary showing the lived experience of an individual who was waiting for a kidney and the effects that dialysis had on his life while he was waiting.
Click here to learn more about Steve’s story.
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Meeting the Needs of American Veterans
Studying healthcare options available for veterans returning from Afghanistan and Iraq, and the state of preparedness of the existing institutions charged with their care.
Click here to learn more.
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Pain Management
Investigating how to promote progress in pain management including end-of-life care, chronic pain treatment, and related legal and reimbursement issues.
Click here to learn more.
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Defining Death
The legal standards for death are not uniform from state to state.
Click here for the Center’s most recent academic article on a need for uniformity in policies dealing with declarations of death and organ retrieval.
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Ethical Hot Topics Blog
Opinion pieces from CES interns and scholars about current hot topics in the vast field of bioethics.
Click here to access the blog.
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