Category Human Rights

Whose Responsibility Are Ethical Issues in Phase 1 Research?

Dessislava Fessenko reveals that ethical concerns surrounding the participation of healthy volunteers in Phase 1 clinical trials have deep roots in broader social conditions, which require social policy responses.

A real prisoner’s dilemma: Organ donation for reduced sentences

Niklas Kirchner and Daniel Lucas identify three major moral problems with a recently proposed bill offering prisoners reduced sentences in exchange for organ donation.

Regulating Chemicals in Your Cosmetics

Addie Tiller discusses the nuances of toxicants in cosmetics and how researchers and politicians are calling for better regulation in Canada.

Turning Human Rights Upside Down with Advance Requests for MAID

Trudo Lemmens shows how proposals to expand advance requests for medical assistance in dying (MAID) ignore the Supreme Court’s restraint reflected in the Carter decision and reverse constitutional and human rights norms.