Category Clinical Ethics
Response to Carl Elliott: The Heroes that Bioethics Needs
Paula Chidwick, Jill Oliver, and Angel Petropanagos outline the qualities of adaptive leadership, an unacknowledged alternative to Carl Elliott’s false dichotomy, which depicts clinical ethicists as servants of health care organizations who are unable to make heroic choices as a way of effecting change. Paula Chidwick, Jill Oliver, and Angel Petropanagos outline the qualities of […]
Heritable Human Genome Editing? It May Never Be Safe
Katie Hasson recounts the recent failures to edit the human genome.
MAiD for mental suffering: The limits of psychiatry
Peter J. Baylis critiques the argument that mental health concerns are never irremediable, and that people with a mental illness as a sole underlying condition should not be eligible for medical assistance in dying.
Four years (and counting) of unconstitutional barriers to MAiD
Jocelyn Downie and Jon Goud explore what happens if the Attorney General’s request for still more time to fix Canada’s unconstitutional medical assistance in dying law is granted (or not).
Abortion is Always Essential Medical Care
Janis Broder and Celeste E. Orr denounce the use of the COVID-19 pandemic as an excuse to make abortion inaccessible.
