Category Pharmaceuticals
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.
Vaccine Skepticism is Becoming Irrelevant
Chris Kaposy acknowledges the ethical justification for coercive COVID-19 vaccine policies, while also recognizing the danger of ceasing to view vaccine skeptics as thinking subjects.
Is There a Duty to Get Vaccinated?
Chris Kaposy examines some of the reasoning that motivates those who refuse vaccination against COVID-19 and finds much that is deficient and disturbing.
Deadly Consequences: Alberta’s Failing Drug Policy
Emily Doerksen discusses a number of the policy failures affecting people who use drugs in Canada, up to and including the Alberta UCP government’s decision to close multiple safe consumption sites across the province.
Impact Ethics 