Author Archives: impact ethics
The (Unknown) Costs of Private-for-Profit IVF
Alana Cattapan questions the balance between clinic profits and costs to patients in the Canadian infertility business.
Wishing Doesn’t Make It So
Françoise Baylis and Jocelyn Downie comment on the first prosecution under the Assisted Human Reproduction Act and criticize Health Canada for its ongoing failure (since 2004) to draft the regulations on reimbursement of receipted expenses.
Stem Cell Cartoons Exhibit Stalled Knowledge Transfer
Cynthia Martin reports on what cartoonists reflected in visual narratives of stem cell science.
Regulating Prescription Drugs @ The Limits of Legal Authority
Matthew Herder explains why Health Canada’s “life cycle” approach to drug regulation may be beyond the regulator’s mandate.
“X” For Intersex
Ellen K. Feder questions the effect of the new category on German birth certificates.
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