Birthing Ethics: What You Should Know About the Ethics of Childbirth
by Raymond De Vries, Ph. D.
May 20, 2010
12:00 p.m. – 1:00 p.m. EST
11:00 a.m – 12:00 p.m CST
10:00 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. MST
9:00 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. PST
This webinar focuses on current ethical issues associated with childbirth in the United States.
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Learning Objectives: At the conclusion of this session participants will be able to:
- Describe general theories that guide ethical decision-making.
- Identify and compare differences in moral problems and ethical choices made by parents and health-care professionals during prenatal, intrapartum, and postpartum periods.
- Adopt a sociological approach to thinking about and resolving ethical dilemmas of birth which takes into account the social, economic, and political context within which ethical problems exist.
Speaker:
Raymond G. De Vries, PhD, is a professor in the bioethics program in the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology and the Department of Medical Education at the University of Michigan Medical School in Ann Arbor. He is a medical sociologist with broad experience in the subject area of research ethics and in the methods of qualitative and quantitative research. He is widely known for his ethnographic studies of maternity care in the United States and the Netherlands and for his work on the sociology of bioethics. In the past 4 years he has been invited to lecture on the social dimensions of bioethics and the value of qualitative research in bioethics in North America, Europe, Japan and Africa. He has experience in the study of ethical and policy issues in research ethics review, the organization and performance of Institutional Review Boards and is particularly interested in the social, ethical, and policy issues associate with voluntary cesarean section. He is the author of A Pleasing Birth: Midwifery and Maternity Care in the Netherlands (Temple University Press, 2005) and is the coeditor of The View from Here: Bioethics and the Social Sciences (Blackwell, 2007).
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