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Mark G. Kuczewski, Ph.D.

 

 

Mark G. Kuczewski, Ph.D.
Director, Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy

The Father Michael I. English, S.J., Professor of Medical Ethics

E-mail: mkuczew@lumc.edu

Fax: 708-327-9209

Neiswanger Institute for Bioethics and Health Policy
Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine
2160 S. First Ave., Bldg. 120, Room 280, Maywood, IL 60153

 

Mark G. Kuczewski, PhD, is a philosopher by training whose research and writings have focused extensively on clinical ethical decision making. He is the author of Fragmentation and Consensus: Communitarian and Casuist Bioethics (Georgetown University Press, 1997), co-author (with Rosa Lynn Pinkus) of the popular, An Ethics Casebook for Hospitals: Practical Approaches to Everyday Cases (Georgetown University Press, 1999), and co-editor (with Ronald Polansky) of Bioethics: Ancient Themes in Contemporary Issues (MIT Press, 2000). He is also the series editor of the new Practicing Bioethics book series from Rowman & Littlefield.

 

Mark is a member of the board of the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. He has participated in several ASBH Task Forces including the recent group that has issued the landmark document, Improving Competence in Ethics Consultation: A Learner’s Guide.

 

Mark’s interests in bioethics education span the continuum of medical, graduate and continuing medical education. His recent scholarship on fostering professionalism among medical students has focused on a model of professionalism that emphasizes the role of medical professionals as advocates for social justice and the promotion of the common good. He is currently exploring the role of reflection and the place of spirituality within this kind of professionalism curriculum. Mark created and developed the online MA program in bioethics & health policy at Loyola (in conjunction with Kayhan Parsi), the only online MA program of its kind, and pioneered the innovative ethics consultation simulation seminar. Prior to his arrival at Loyola, Mark was the director of the Master of Arts program in bioethics at the Medical College of Wisconsin and is largely responsible for making it the first such program available via the internet. As the former associate director of the Consortium Ethics Program at the University of Pittsburgh, he also has extensive experience designing educational programs for hospital ethics committees and other clinical professionals

 

Mark’s current research interests also include health disparities, disability ethics, the process of informed consent, research ethics, and teaching teamwork across health-care professions.


SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

 

Wear, D., Kuczewski, M.G., (2008) Medical Students’ Perceptions of the Poor: What Impact Can Medical Education Have? Academic Medicine 83(7) 639-645.

 

Kuczewski, M.G., (2007) Talking about Spirituality in the Clinical Setting: Can Being Professional Require Being Personal? American Journal of Bioethics 7(7): 4 - 11.


Kuczewski, M.G., (2007) The Soul of Medicine, Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, 50(3): 410 - 420, 2007.
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Kuczewski, M.G., (2007) Democratic Ideals & Bioethics Commissions: The Problem of Expertise in an Egalitarian Society, in Felicia Cohn, Lisa Eckenwiler (eds.), The Ethics of Bioethics, Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, pp.83-94.

 

McCruden, P., Kuczewski, M.G., (2006) Is Organizational Ethics the Remedy for Failure to Thrive? Toward an Understanding of Mission Leadership. Healthcare Ethics Committee Forum, 18(4): 342-348.

 

Kuczewski, M.G., Villaume, F., Chang, H. Fitz, M., Bading, E., Michelfelder, A. , (2006) Can Justice Be Taught? Valuing Justice and Professionalism in the Medical School Curriculum, in Kayhan Parsi, Myles Sheehan (eds.), Healing as Vocation: A Medical Professionalism Primer, Washington, DC: Rowman & Littlefield, pp.77-91.

 

Kuczewski, M.G. (2006) The Problem with Evaluating Professionalism: The Case Against the Current Dogma, in Delese Wear, Julie Aultman (eds.), Professionalism in Medicine: Critical Perspectives, New York: Springer Publishing Company, pp.185-198.

 

Kuczewski, M.G., (2006) Our Cultures, Our Selves: Toward an Honest Dialogue on Race and End-of-Life Decisions, American Journal of Bioethics, 6(6): 13-17.

 

Kuczewski, M.G., Fiedler, I., (2005) Ethical Issues in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation: Treatment Decision Making with Adult Patients, Critical Reviews in Physical and Rehabilitation Medicine 17(1): 31-52.
 

Kuczewski, M.G. (2004) Re-Reading On Death & Dying: What Elisabeth Kubler-Ross Can Teach Clinical Bioethics," American Journal of Bioethics 4(4): W19-W23.
 

Nantais, D., Kuczewski, M.G., (2004) Quality of Life: The Contested Rhetoric of Resource Allocation And End-of-Life Decision Making, Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 29(6): 651-664.
 

Wear, D., Kuczewski, M.G. (2004) The Professionalism Movement: Can We Pause? American Journal of Bioethics, 4(2): 1-10.
 

Kuczewski, M.G. (2004) Ethics Committees and Case Consultation: Theory and Practice. In George Khushf, (ed.) Handbook of Bioethics: Taking Stock of the Field from a Philosophical Perspective. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, pp. 315-334.
 

Kuczewski, M.G. (2004) From Informed Consent to Substituted Judgment: Decision Making at the End-of-Life, Healthcare Ethics Committee Forum 16(1): 27-37.
 

Kuczewski, M.G. (2004) Communitarianism and Bioethics, in Stephen G. Post (ed.) Encyclopedia of Bioethics, 3rd edition, Macmillan Reference USA, pp.477-483.
 

Barron, W., Kuczewski, M.G. (2003) Unanticipated Harm to Patients: Deciding When to Disclose Events, Joint Commission Journal on Quality and Safety, 29(10): 551-555.

Kuczewski, M.G.
, Bading, E., Langbein, M., Henry, B. (2003) Fostering Professionalism: The Loyola Model, Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 12(2):161-166.
 

Kuczewski, M.G., Parsi, K. (2002) The VIrtual Graduate Program in Bioethics: The Mission, the Students, and the Hazards, American Journal of Bioethics, 2(4): 13-17
 

Kuczewski, M.G., Marshall P. (2002) The Decision Dynamics of Clinical Research: The Context and Process of Informed Consent, Medical Care, 40(9), Special Supplement: v-45-54.
 

Kuczewski, M.G., (2002) "The Gift of Life and Starfish on the Beach: The Ethics of Organ Procurement", American Journal of Bioethics, 2 3):53-56.
 

Kuczewski, M.G., (2002) Two Models of Ethical Consensus or What Good is a Bunch of Bioethicists? Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 11(1): 27-36.
 

Kuczewski, M.G., (2001) "Disability: An Agenda for Bioethics," American Journal of Bioethics, 1(3): 36-44.

Kuczewski, M.G.
, Fiedler, I., (2001) Ethical Issues in Spinal Cord Injury Rehabilitation: The Redevelopment of Autonomy and Community Integration, American Journal of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, 80(11); 848-851
 

Kuczewski, M.G., McCruden, P. (2001) Informed Consent: Does It Take a Village? Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 10(1): 34-46.

 


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