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Essential Ethics — 76 episodes

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2025 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference: Ethics of children with rare diseases and the resulting disability participating in commercially sponsored advanced therapy clinical trials

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2025 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference⁠: “The Squeaky Wheel,” an ethical approach to finding the balance between addressing parental concerns and managing excessive demands

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2025 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference: SickTok - Adolescent illness identity, privacy, and the role of the clinician

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2025 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference: Talking with children about illness and dying

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2025 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference: If you hit someone with a frying pan, it’s not cooking!!!

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2025 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference: How can we make better ethical decisions in practice?

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2025 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference: Socrates in the clinic

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2024 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference: Disentangling perspectives

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Getting your heart dirty

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How should we conceptualise suffering in children's healthcare?

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Love your patient

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Moral distress

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2024 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference: Hope within despair

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2024 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference: When words fail

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2024 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference: Beyond distress and dilemma

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2023 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference: High cost and novel therapies

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2023 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference: Gender affirming care

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2023 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference: Hope, Humility and Innovation

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2023 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference: Rethinking innovation

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Parents vs clinicians: a path to resolution

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13th National Paediatric Bioethics Conference 2022: Friends of the CBC hypothetical

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13th National Paediatric Bioethics Conference 2022: Abandoned or relinquished? Challenges for hospital staff

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13th National Paediatric Bioethics Conference 2022: Vaccinating young people against parental wishes

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Classic Conundrum: Children as haematopoietic stem cell donors: The role of an advocate

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13th National Paediatric Bioethics Conference 2022: Addressing conflict: an introduction to empathic curiosity

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Deciding with Children S2 Ep4: Beyond Disability

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Deciding with Children S2 Ep3: Finding My Voice

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Deciding with Children S2 Ep2: Is deciding with children a human right?

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Deciding with Children S2 Ep1: Determining capacity to decide and refuse

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The voices of experience: the ethics of partnering with families in paediatric research

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Are we ready for genomic newborn screening?

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Clinical ethics in paediatric nursing: 5 Advocacy in nursing: unpacking the ethics

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Clinical ethics in paediatric nursing: 4 Holding children for clinical procedures: necessary or not?

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Clinical ethics in paediatric nursing: 3 Nursing in a pandemic

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Clinical ethics in paediatric nursing: 2 Moral distress: what is it and what do we do about it?

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Clinical ethics in paediatric nursing: 1 Recognising ethical moments in nursing

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12th National Paediatric Bioethics Conference 2021: When parents exclude the adolescent in decision-making: International perspectives

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12th National Paediatric Bioethics Conference 2021: Bringing it all together, Part III: Professor Clare Delany

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12th National Paediatric Bioethics Conference 2021: Bringing it all together, Part II: Professor Lynn Gillam

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12th National Paediatric Bioethics Conference 2021: Bringing it all together, Part I: Professor John Massie

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12th National Paediatric Bioethics Conference 2021: Respecting refusal. Check your privacy settings: should a child’s illness journey be shared on social media?

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12th National Paediatric Bioethics Conference 2021 - Keynote: Involving Children in Clinical Decision-making: Why it Matters and How Best to Do it

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Deciding with Children 6: When children with chronic disease know more than you (Type 1 Diabetes)

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Deciding with Children 5: When the Stakes are High (Oncology)

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Deciding with Children 4: Deciding with Adolescents

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Deciding with Children 3: Deciding with young children

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Deciding with Children 2: Deciding with Adolescents (Gillick competence)

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Deciding with Children 1: Introduction: Ethical theory - why listen to the child’s voice in paediatric healthcare?

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2020 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference - The Ethics of Innovative Therapies for Children with COVID-19 (Part 2)

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2020 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference - The Ethics of Innovative Therapies for Children with COVID-19 (Part 1)

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2020 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference - The Ethics of Managing Risk to Hospital Staff

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2020 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference - Debate: If a COVID-19 vaccine is found to be safe and effective, should it be mandatory?

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2020 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference - Debate: Whether it is ethical to conduct COVID-19 challenge trials in children

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2020 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference - Professor John Lantos: Let no good pandemic go to waste

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The Ethics Toolkit - Patient and Family Centred Care

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The Ethics Toolkit - Shared Decision Making

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The Ethics Toolkit - The Zone of Parental Discretion

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The Ethics Toolkit - The Harm Principle

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The Ethics Toolkit - Beyond Principles: other ways to consider bioethics

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The Ethics Toolkit - Principles

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2019 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference - Respect - a Socratic Dialogue

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2019 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference - Respecting families’ cultural and religious beliefs and practices – going too far or not far enough?

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2019 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference - The Twilight Zone

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2019 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference - Blended food for tube feeding a child: ethical considerations

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2019 National Paediatric Bioethics Conference - Negotiating diverse cultural and religious differences in a paediatric hospital

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Screening for inherited diseases: the North American perspective

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Screening for inherited diseases: Should all couples be offered all tests?

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Special: Pandemic Ethics in a Children’s Hospital - Disability in the time of Covid-19

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Special: Pandemic Ethics in a Children’s Hospital - Refusal of Covid-19 Testing

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Special: Pandemic Ethics in a Children’s Hospital. Allocation of resources – Beyond ventilators

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Special: Pandemic Ethics in a Children’s Hospital. Balancing patient care with protection of staff

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Classic Conundrum: Just get on with it. A parent driven paradigm

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Classic Conundrum: The heart of the matter

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Classic Conundrum: She's my child and I know what's best

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Classic Conundrum: What to do when a patient rejects your recommended treatment

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Classic Conundrum: Wait on, who’s the doctor here?