Bioethics
Presentations/Lectures
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 February 2008.
Mercy for whom? The bait and switch of Robert Latimer. Copeman Healthcare Centre, Vancouver. 22 January 2008.
Pandemics and the lessons from Polio: A Legal review. University of Hawaii: Richardson School or Law. Honolulu, HI. 17 Feb. 2007.
Disabled Ethic: Bioethics from the perspective of Difference. The example of Polio. Annual meeting of the Assoc. of Bioethics and the Humanities, Denver, CO. 24-28 Oct. 2006.
Weaponizing medicine: Physicians and Abu Ghraib or Guantanamo. University of Hawaii Richardson School of law. Honolulu, HI. 10 Feb. 2006.
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.
Complicity at the core: Bioethics, Practice and Theory. Philosophy Affinity Group, Am. Society of Bioethics Sixth Annual Meeting, Montreal, P.Q. 23-26 Oct. 2003.
Understanding Schiavo: A Panel consideration of a problematic case. Am. Society of Bioethics and the Canadian Bioethics Society, Montreal, P.Q. 23-26 Oct. 2003.
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.
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.
Mapping Justice: The problem of graft organ distribution. ESRI Health and mapping seminar, Hyatt Regency Hotel, Vancouver, BC. 28 April 2002.
Genetics, Eugenics, and Discrimination. Plenary, Canadian Down syndrome Society, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, 18 May 2000.
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.
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.
Ethic's Lifeboat: The Forgotten Case of the William Brown. The Brock House Society, Vancouver, BC. 20 March 2001.
The Latimer Story: Academic responsibility and journalist limits. Keynote, Ind. Interdisciplinary Studies Program (IISGP), University of British Columbia. Green College 26 Feb. 2001.
"Should Canada Permit Zenotransplantation?" CBC radio show, Noon Hour, Vancouver, BC. Aug. 20, 2000.
Bioethics for Whom? The limits of the professional posture. Presented at the Third International Bioethics Retreat, Pembroke College, Cambridge, England. Sept. 12-16, 2000.
Jefferson Lecture: Seeking Justice: Fairness and efficiency in the field of organ transplantation. Clark University, Worcester, MA. Nov. 3, 1999.
Prairie Conservatism and the death of Tyrell Dueck. CBC Radio Commentary. July 5, 1999.
The Difference a word can make: "Compensation" and the Canadian Hepatitis Controversy. CBC Radio. May, 1998.
The issue of euthanasia: What's a hospital to do? Kaiser Foundation Hospitals, Honolulu, HI. Nov. 1998.
Patients, Surrogates, and the Internet: Build it and they may come. HISA Mid-Atlantic conference on the Internet and Health. Troy MI. Feb. 1998.
On the subject(s) of Jack Kevorkian, MD: A Retrospective Study. Kuakini Hospital, Honolulu, HI. Jan, 1998.
(with Mark Ridgley) 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. Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, Canada. July 12-15, 1996.
The Healing Science of Narrative Art: A Chorus of Experience. Keynote
lecture. Healing and the Creative Arts. Simon Fraser University. Vancouver.
May 3, 1996.
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.
Bioethics and the Canadian Dilemma. Paper presented at the Bioethics Beyond Borders First Annual meeting. U.. Cal. Berkeley, CA. June. 1995.
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.
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.
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.
"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.
"Care giving: Who Cares? Why Care?" Public lecture sponsored by University of Hawaii, Center on Aging, and Hawaii State Executive on Aging. Jan. 1994