Program in Medicine & Human Values

The Program in Medicine & Human Values at California Pacific Medical Center provides medical ethics consultation for professionals and families, a variety of sponsored continuing education activities for practicing health care professionals, resources through our special library collection, research, and regional ethics resources.

Program News

West Bay Expansion
The Program is now working to support and strengthen ethics in four other community hospitals in Northern California, Sutter's West Bay Region: Novato Community Hospital, Sutter Medical Center of Santa Rosa, and Sutter Lakeside Hospital.

Bioethics Currents

Current issues in biomedical ethics from around the world.

• American Medical News, 17 October 2011
  Cancer patients denied pain relief in Ukraine, suffer unbearable agony
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• New Scientist, 16 October 2011
  Keeping a lid on your digital DNA
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• Medical News Today, 13 October 2011
  Has Medicine Been Reduced To Economics?
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• The Guardian, 12 October 2011
  Emergency medics to be told of patients' instructions on dying
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• ABC News, 11 October 2011
  California12-Year-Olds to Get HPV Vaccine Without Parental Consent
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