Category Privacy and Trust

Prove AI Can’t Care First

Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon argues that defaulting to AI in health settings could do more harm than good.

Why Racism in Health Care is an Ethical Crisis: A Nursing Perspective

Danielle Gibbs argues that addressing systemic racism in nursing is not only a moral imperative but an ethical necessity to uphold justice, beneficence, and non-maleficence within health care.

Is Free, Canada-Wide Access to HIV Medications Reasonable?

Julian Hopwood-Raja argues that universal, barrier-free access to HIV medicines is not just a matter of beneficence for patients and the health system but important for public health and ethical resource allocation.

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.

Beyond Compliance: Ethics in the Context of Privacy

Dylan McKibbon argues that the concept of privacy has been long misunderstood and ought to be elevated to the status of a core bioethical principle to be regarded as a cornerstone of bioethical activity.