Monthly Archives: July 2019
Biopolitics, Pseudoscience, and Alternative-Facts Medicine
Kiarash Aramesh describes how biopolitics and pseudoscience in medicine are in a partnership to forge identity-making alternative facts.
Abbyann Day Lynch: In Memoriam
George C. Webster remembers Canadian bioethics pioneer Dr. Abbyann Lynch.
Request in Support of Universal Pharmacare
Since the 1960s, five national commissions have recommended universal pharmacare for Canada. The most recent of these is the detailed and strategic report of the Advisory Council on the Implementation of National Pharmacare. Now, after more than 50 years of waiting, Canada is close to adding prescription drugs to our “medicare” system. This is extremely […]
Russia’s CRISPR “deaf babies”: the next genome editing frontier?
Jackie Leach Scully and Teresa Blankmeyer Burke worry about the ableist and audist assumptions hidden in this venture.
Impact Ethics 