Category eHealth
Gurus, Influencers, and the Public Health Crisis of Misinformation
Kyle Barbour outlines how the death of public reason has made room for figures advancing spurious claims about health.
Adolescent Consent: Culturally Relative or Universal?
Julien Brisson supports removing age-based restrictions on adolescent healthcare consent, advocating for decisions to be made on the adolescent’s capacity to understand the treatment.
Mental Health Apps Operating Outside Ethical Boundaries
Shyanne Dougherty questions the ethics of unregulated mental health apps.
Dignity and Adolescents’ Autonomy
Julien Brisson argues for an autonomy-based deontological approach to the topic of adolescent access to sexual and reproductive health services.
Trust in Medicine: the Humboldt Broncos Patients’ eRecords
Jeff Nisker argues that trust in the medical profession has been diminished by the physicians who violated privacy rules by viewing the electronic records of Humboldt Broncos patients and also by the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan who defended their actions.
Impact Ethics 