Author Archives: impact ethics

Public Health’s Post-Pandemic Relationship with Coercion

Maxwell J. Smith outlines four areas of ethical inquiry about the use of coercion in public health that we should consider in the post-pandemic era.

What Counts as a COVID-19 Pandemic Success Story?

Chris Kaposy draws lessons from diverging claims of success versus failure in the management of the pandemic in Florida and Canada.

L’intelligence artificielle du point de vue de la santé globale

Vincent Couture et Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon explorent les nouvelles menaces existentielles qu’engendre l’intelligence artificielle restreinte et générale pour la santé mondiale et proposent des stratégies pour s’y attaquer.

Genetic Selection for Non-Disease Traits

Dessislava Fessenko discusses the moral permissibility of genetic selection for non-disease traits and highlights some of the ultimate considerations that should define it.

Psychedelics, Ethics, and the Commercial Determinants of Health

Daniel Rosenbaum and Daniel Z. Buchman draw attention to commercial involvement in psychedelic research and to the population health risks associated with this involvement.