Bioethics
Presentations/Lectures
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Constructing Classes: Aging and the Origins of Elder Law.
University of Hawaii Richardson School of Law. |
17 Feb. 2011 |
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Welcome Distinguished Lectures. University of Manchester
Department of Philosophy. Manchester, UK. --The prince of normalcy meets the queen of difference: Peter Singer and Harriet McBryde Johnson. --Enhancing who? Enhancing What? Ethics, bioethics, and Transhumanism. |
23 Oct. 2010 |
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Difference and Disability: Where is the Ethics in Bioethics?
Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto. |
15 Sept. 2010 |
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Euthanasia and the Ethics of Care.
Submission to the Quebec Assembly Committee on “Dignity with Dignity. |
23 July 2010 |
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The “Palliative Principle” and Canadian Health Care.
Presentation to the The Canadian Parliamentary Committee on Palliative and Compassionate Care. Ottawa, ON. |
18 June 2010 |
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Difference and Disability: Where is the Ethics in Bioethics?
Disability and Ethics Through the Life Cycle: Cases, Controversies and Finding Common Ground. Union, Schenectady, NY. |
22 May 2010 |
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Plenary Lecture (and Hospital Rounds), Humanist Values in Medicine.
Tenth Anniversary conference at Center for Medicine and Bioethics, Lake Head University, Thunder Bay, ON. |
10 April 2009 |
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Is it OK to Kill Loved Ones Because You Don’t Like Their Lives?
The case of Robert Latimer, again. Rounds, St. Paul’s Hospital Rounds, Vancouver (CHEOS). |
20 Feb. 2008 |
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Mercy For Whom? The Bait and Switch of Robert Latimer.
Copeman Healthcare Centre, Vancouver. |
22 Jan. 2008 |
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Pandemics and the Lessons from Polio: A Legal Review.
University of Hawaii: Richardson School or Law. Honolulu, HI. |
17 Feb. 2007 |
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Disabled Ethic: Bioethics from the Perspective of Difference.
The Example of Polio. Annual meeting of the Assoc. of Bioethics and the Humanities, Denver, CO. |
28 Oct. 2006 |
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Weaponizing Medicine: Physicians and Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo.
University of Hawaii Richardson School of law. Honolulu, HI. |
10 Feb. 2006 |
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Difference and Disability: Bioethics's Cultural Divide.
In, International Human Rights and Situating Impairment-Disability in the Academy, the Service Sector, and in Policy. Society of Applied Anthropology and Medical Anthropology Annual Meeting. Santa Fe, NM. |
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Complicity at the Core: Bioethics, Practice and Theory.
Philosophy Affinity Group, Am. Society of Bioethics Sixth Annual Meeting, Montreal, P.Q. |
26 Oct. 2003 |
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Understanding Schiavo: A Panel Consideration of a Problematic Case.
Am. Society of Bioethics and the Canadian Bioethics Society, Montreal, P.Q. |
26 Oct. 2003 |
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At the Beginning of the End of the Dark Ages of Social Medicine:
Down Syndrome and Selective Abortion. Montreal West End Ethics Seminar, Montreal, P.Q. |
22 Oct. 2003 |
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The Ethics of the Village: Why is it So Difficult?
Variety Club annual "It Takes a Village. . ." conference. Victoria Conference Centre, Victoria, BC, Canada. |
2-4 May 2003 |
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Mapping Justice: The Problem of Graft Organ Distribution.
ESRI Health and mapping seminar, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Vancouver, BC. |
28 April 2002 |
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Genetics, Eugenics, and Discrimination.
Plenary, Canadian Down Syndrome Society, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, |
18 May 2000 |
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The Costs of Doing Less: The Economics of Comprehensive Health Care.
Presented to the Romanow Commission on Health Care in Canada, Vancouver, BC. |
March 2002 |
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Ethical Dilemmas in Social Work: Bioethics as Social Work/ Social Work as Bioethics.
Ottawa Hospital Social Workers Study Day, Ottawa, Ont. Canada. |
26 March 2001 |
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Ethic's Lifeboat: The Forgotten Case of the William Brown.
The Brock House Society, Vancouver, BC. |
20 March 2001 |
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The Latimer Story: Academic Responsibility and Journalist Limits.
Keynote, Ind. Interdisciplinary Studies Program (IISGP), University of British Columbia. Green College |
26 Feb. 2001 |
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"Should Canada Permit Zenotransplantation?"
CBC radio show, Noon Hour, Vancouver, BC. |
20 Aug. 2000 |
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Bioethics for Whom? The Limits of the Professional Posture.
Presented at the Third International Bioethics Retreat, Pembroke College, Cambridge, England. |
16 Sept. 2000 |
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Jefferson Lecture: Seeking Justice:
Fairness and efficiency in the field of organ transplantation. Clark University, Worcester, MA. |
3 Nov. 1999 |
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Prairie Conservatism and the Death of Tyrell Dueck.
CBC Radio Commentary. |
5 July 1999 |
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The Difference a Word Can Make: "Compensation" and the Canadian Hepatitis Controversy.
CBC Radio. |
May, 1998 |
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The Issue of Euthanasia: What's a Hospital to Do?
Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Honolulu, HI. |
Nov. 1998 |
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Patients, Surrogates, and the Internet: Build it and They May Come.
HISA Mid-Atlantic conference on the Internet and Health. Troy MI. |
Feb. 1998 |
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On the subject(s) of Jack Kevorkian, MD:
A Retrospective Study. Kuakini Hospital, Honolulu, HI. |
Jan, 1998 |
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Aids, Anencephaly and AHP: The Effect of Multicriterion Modeling as a Catalyst in Bioethical Decision Making.
In: Proceedings of the Fourth International Symposium on the Analytic Hierarchy Process (with Mark Ridgley). Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada. |
15 July 1996 |
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The Healing Science of Narrative Art: A Chorus of Experience.
Keynote lecture. Healing and the Creative Arts. Simon Fraser University. Vancouver. |
3 May 1996 |
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Analytic Hierarchies and a Methodology for Consultative Ethical Decision Making:
The Challenge of Baby K. Paper presented at the Am. Soc. For Law, Medicine and Ethics, Boston, MA. |
Sept. 1995 |
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Bioethics and the Canadian Dilemma.
Paper presented at the Bioethics Beyond Borders First Annual meeting. U.. Cal. Berkeley, CA. |
June 1995 |
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What's so Great About Intelligence?
Patient Assessment, Health Care Decision Making, and the Problem of Organ Allocation. Paper presented at Canadian Conference. on Bioethics. Vancouver. |
Nov. 1995 |
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Murder in Mercy's Name: The Killing of Alzheimer Patients and Other Fragile People.
Paper presented at The Canadian Association on Gerontology Conference (CAG), pre-seminar on Alzheimer Disease. Vancouver, BC. |
Oct. 1995 |
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Playing Russian Roulette With a Loaded Gun: Euthanasia on Canada's Slippery Slope.
Policy paper presented at the Canadian Association on Gerontology Annual Meeting. Edmonton, Alberta. |
Oct. 1995 |
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"Fact and Context in Long-Term Care Case Management: The Effect of Familial Values and Social Support Systems."
University of Hawaii, School of Public Health. Honolulu, HI. |
Feb. 1995 |
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"Care Giving: Who Cares? Why Care?"
Public lecture sponsored by University of Hawaii, Center on Aging, and Hawaii State Executive on Aging. |
Jan. 1994 |