Category Canadian Bioethics
When AI Rents Humans: A Warning for Healthcare
Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon warns that as artificial intelligence (AI) agents begin hiring humans for physical tasks, we must ensure this inversion of labour does not reduce health care to a series of gig-economy transactions directed by algorithms.
Misinformation about Medical Assistance in Dying
Luca Norton presents the problems associated with the influence of misinformation on policy about medical assistance in dying in Canada.
We’re Hiring!
The Memorial University Centre for Bioethics and the Division of Population Health and Applied Health Sciences invite applications for two tenure-stream positions in Bioethics. Memorial University is situated on the traditional territories of diverse Indigenous groups of the Beothuk, Mi’kmaq, Innu, and Inuit of the province of Newfoundland and Labrador and acknowledges and respects the […]
The Short-Lived Tax on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages in NL
Rachel Prowse and Kayla Crichton describe what happened when Newfoundland and Labrador applied a sugary drink tax, which was discontinued this summer.
CASGEVY: Rethinking Drug Costs Through the Lens of Public Access
Maria Klimenko considers the extent to which the price of innovative treatments like CASGEVY, a type of gene therapy, should reflect not just the cost of development, but also their broader societal impact — and the public healthcare system’s ability to provide equitable access.
Impact Ethics 