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Dating your psychologist, even if you’re no longer a client, is never a good idea, whatever Netflix says.
Here’s what you should know – and ask – if your doctor uses an AI scribe in your consultation.
Vladimir Putin and Xi Jinping were recently caught discussing whether organ transplants could help a person live forever. The idea has scientific and ethical flaws.
Health-care professionals aren’t pacifists refusing conscription into the military. They freely choose health-care careers – that comes with obligations.
What might an updated newborn screening program look like?
Canada has a lack of transparency about Big Pharma’s payments to health-care providers and organizations. Disclosure is voluntary, and there’s no central data on even the few companies that do report.
‘I don’t like the candidates,’ ‘I don’t know enough to make a decision,’ ‘I don’t want to give this election legitimacy’ – an ethicist takes on nonvoters.
The definition of personhood is a key and contested philosophical issue that has made legalized abortion such a longstanding controversy.
We have moved beyond burning witches and lynching wrong-doers. So we should also stop shaming unvaccinated people. There are better ways to change behaviour.
Pausing COVID-19 vaccine rollouts can backfire. There are better ways to manage safety issues while they’re being investigated.
Expanding access to medical assistance in dying (MAID) to those not terminally ill puts vulnerable people at risk of feeling pressured into MAID, and doctors at risk of being forced to facilitate it.
Top contributors
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Chen Su Lan Centennial Professor in Medical Ethics, National University of Singapore; Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law, University of Melbourne; Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, The University of Melbourne
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Division Chair & Associate Professor of Palliative Medicine, Queen's University, Ontario
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Professor of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, UMass Amherst
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Associate Adjunct Professor of Disability Ethics, John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre, University of Alberta
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Research Fellow in Applied Moral Philosophy, University of Oxford
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Associate professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, University of Toronto; York University, Canada; University of Sydney
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Senior Research Fellow, Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
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Consultant Neonatologist and Professor of Ethics, University of Oxford
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Professor of Paediatrics and vaccinologist, Royal Childrens Hospital, University of Melbourne and Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI); Associate Dean International, University of Melbourne, Murdoch Children's Research Institute
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Professor of Bioethics and Humanities, School of Medicine, University of Washington
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Associate Professor of Health Technology Assessment, Leeder Centre for Health Policy, Economics and Data, School of Public Health, University of Sydney
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Senior Lecturer Genetic Counselling, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Bioethics, University of Sydney
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Professor and Director, Australian Centre for Health Engagement, Evidence and Values, University of Wollongong
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Lecturer in Bioethics, Monash University; The University of Melbourne