Category Canadian Bioethics

Climate, Health and Equity – Canada Must Lead with Action

Sharon E. Straus discusses the urgent need for the upcoming G7 summit to address climate change impacts on health.

Are Your Medical Photographs on the Internet? Part 2

Zach Patterson, Zack Marshall, and a grade 8 class in Calgary replicate a study showing the availability of patient photographs from medical case studies on the open internet.

Death Pluralism?

Anthony Sangiuliano comments on the limits of accommodating pluralism in the legal definition of death.

Intellectual Disabilities and Autism: Ethics and Practice

Andria Bianchi and Janet A. Vogt introduce their new book which investigates ethical issues in the lives of people with intellectual and developmental disabilities and autistic people in health care and in other social contexts.

Climate Denialism in Mainstream Canadian Politics

Hannah Sladics questions why more Canadian politicians are engaging in climate denialism, and how this spells devastating repercussions for global health initiatives.