Author Archives: impact ethics
Trust in health care after the death of Joyce Echaquan
Phoebe Friesen wonders whether clinicians can ask for trust in Canada’s system of health care after Joyce Echaquan’s death.
Accommodating Menstrual Periods in the Workplace
Surabhi Kulshrestha explores the treatment of menstruation in the context of the Canadian workplace.
In a Nutshell: An attempted assault on access to MAiD
Jocelyn Downie summarizes Y v. Swinemar, the recent decision in the Nova Scotia Court of Appeal that rejected third parties interfering with access to medical assistance in dying.
Comprehensive reproductive health services include abortion
Martha Paynter contrasts Newfoundland and Labrador and New Brunswick to describe how abortion should be part of the continuum of a rationally organized health care service delivery system for reproductive health in Atlantic Canada.
COVID-19 animal research reveals ethical shortcomings
Andrew Fenton and L. Syd M Johnson outline several ethical issues with nonhuman animal research revealed by COVID-19 research
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