Author Archives: Impact Ethics
Slow Bioethics
Nathalie Egalité, a new faculty member in the Memorial University Centre for Bioethics, discusses the pace of clinical ethics work.
An Interview with Martha Paynter
On International Safe Abortion Day (September 28, 2026), Martha Paynter discusses her new book Lawless: Abortion under Complete Decriminalization.
Toward a Two-tiered Publicly Administered Healthcare System in Canada
Daryl Pullman proposes that it is time for more privately funded health care in Canada, as long as privately financed care is publicly administered.
Trust Is Not a Communication Strategy: Why Transparency is an Ethical Obligation
Transparency is often treated as a tool for building public trust. Bryn Williams-Jones argues that it is first an ethical obligation to the public.
The M Case: Death Caused by Base Editing
Renzong Qiu tells the story of the death of a six-year-old girl, a research participant in a base-editing gene therapy trial in China, and argues that research participants’ interests should never be overridden by scientific or social interests.
