On International Safe Abortion Day (September 28, 2026), Martha Paynter discusses her new book Lawless: Abortion under Complete Decriminalization.

Daryl Pullman proposes that it is time for more privately funded health care in Canada, as long as privately financed care is publicly administered.

Transparency is often treated as a tool for building public trust. Bryn Williams-Jones argues that it is first an ethical obligation to the public.

Renzong Qiu tells the story of the death of a six-year-old girl, a research participant in a base-editing gene therapy trial in China, and argues that research participants’ interests should never …

Rachel Howard introduces the practice of “sharenting” and considers the ethical considerations of this practice within the pediatric oncology context, and the potential role of pediatric oncologist…

Hunain Fatima Khan shows that a balance is needed between regulating misinformation online for the benefit of young people, and facilitating their autonomy

Andrew Fenton outlines the Government of Canada’s failure to live up to Canadian law on cetacean captivity and raises doubts about merely extending efforts to phase out the captivity of other large…

Daphne Pereira points out that expanding the circle doesn’t mean shrinking or displacing anyone else.

Sarojini Nadimpally relates some lessons from her experiences of living with cancer.

Alia Busuttil examines the ethical trade-offs clinicians make when they invite AI into the circle of care as translators.

Bryn Williams-Jones argues that focusing on researchers’ intentions misses how risks emerge and responsibility is distributed across modern research systems.

Vanita Fernandes warns that the use of empathy-simulating chatbots in mental health care poses ethical concerns including the risk of deception.

In an ongoing series of commentaries, Lynette Reid describes the work done at Dalhousie University to diversify the case-based learning curriculum in the medical program.

Madalena Liougas and Alisa Grigorovich highlight that, when it comes to the use of tracking technologies in dementia care, surveillance isn’t safety, and safety shouldn’t mean surrendering dignity.…

Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon warns that as artificial intelligence (AI) agents begin hiring humans for physical tasks, we must ensure this inversion of labour does not reduce health care to a seri…

In an ongoing series of commentaries, Lynette Reid describes the work done at Dalhousie University to diversify the case-based learning curriculum in the medical program.

This symposium issue invites interdisciplinary contributions examining how the history of eugenics informs current ethical, legal, and social debates on human ...

Danielle Gibbs Koenitzer examines how healthcare institutions manage anti-racism through policy and process while avoiding the structural changes required to protect marginalized patients and profe…

Lynette Reid describes the work done at Dalhousie to diversify the case-based learning (CBL) curriculum in the medical program.

The Memorial University Centre for Bioethics and the Division of Population Health and Applied Health Sciences invite applications for two tenure-stream positions in Bioethics. Memorial University …

Luca Norton presents the problems associated with the influence of misinformation on policy about medical assistance in dying in Canada.

Andrew Fenton outlines the ethical and legal reasons against sending Marineland’s captive beluga whales to facilities in other countries.

A.M. Kieley discusses online misinformation about black salve, a dangerous and ineffective “treatment” for cancer.

The Memorial University Centre for Bioethics and the Division of Population Health and Applied Health Sciences invite applications for two tenure-stream positions in Bioethics. Memorial University …

Danielle Gibbs Koenitzer contends that ableism in nursing education functions as a form of gatekeeping, which silences disabled voices, narrows the definition of who can be a nurse, and reinforces …

Rachel Prowse and Kayla Crichton describe what happened when Newfoundland and Labrador applied a sugary drink tax, which was discontinued this summer.

Doris Schroeder presents the PREPARED Code – a global code of conduct for research during pandemics.

Maria Klimenko considers the extent to which the price of innovative treatments like CASGEVY, a type of gene therapy, should reflect not just the cost of development, but also their broader societa…

Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon argues that defaulting to AI in health settings could do more harm than good. Last month, Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke made headlines after publicly sharing a leaked interna…

Sharon E. Straus discusses the urgent need for the upcoming G7 summit to address climate change impacts on health.

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.

Jade Ealy frames hope as a moral commitment—not rooted in a feeling, but in how we choose to show up in the world and how we care for one another.

Ayla Raabis explores the state of autonomy in clinical settings for incarcerated patients in Canada and adopts a relational perspective to better understand how to promote autonomy.

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 re…

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.

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 act…

JCB Seminar Series 2024-25 - Book Launch Event

Paola Cubillos draws attention to the ethical and methodological concerns from MDMA- Assisted Therapy research and argues that these issues merit a stringent research ethics oversight framework for…