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Ira Kodner

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Director of the Center for the Study of Human Values and Ethics

Expertise: Ethics, health care policy

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Kodner
Kodner
Kodner directs one of the only comprehensive programs in ethics and human values at a university in the United States. While other centers study human values, most are located in a particular school and address particular topics. The Center for the Study of Human Values and Ethics supports the study, research and teaching of ethics in areas ranging from medicine to business to architecture.



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Doing what's right

WUSM physicians take proactive approach to ethics (http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/5180.html)

April 26, 2005 -- An operating room trauma team is told their unconscious patient is a Jehovah's Witness with religious objections to blood transfusions, but the patient has lost a lot of blood. Doctors are faced with ethical dilemmas such as this in hospital rooms and doctor offices around the nation every day. To help deal with these issues, the Center for the Study of Ethics and Human Values at Washington University offers monthly surgical ethics sessions as a way to contemplate the emotional, humane and legal implications of medical decisions. Read more from the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.



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Organ trade in China raises alarm over human rights
Kansas City Star and 16 others

Aug. 24, 2006 -- As transplant lists grow longer, more Americans are traveling to China for organs. The trend alarms ethicists and U.S. doctors concerned about the human rights of donors and the health and safety of recipients.
Includes comments by Jeffrey Crippin, president of the American Society of Transplantation and medical director of WUSTL's liver transplant program, and Ira Kodner, a colorectal surgeon and director of the WUSTL's Center for the Study of Ethics and Human Values.



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