Bioethics


Presentations/Lectures

Constructing Classes: Aging and the Origins of Elder Law.
University of Hawaii Richardson School of Law.
17 Feb. 2011

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

Difference and Disability: Where is the Ethics in Bioethics?
Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics, University of Toronto.
15 Sept. 2010

Euthanasia and the Ethics of Care.
Submission to the Quebec Assembly Committee on “Dignity with Dignity.
23 July 2010

The “Palliative Principle” and Canadian Health Care.
Presentation to the The Canadian Parliamentary Committee on Palliative and Compassionate Care. Ottawa, ON.
18 June 2010

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

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

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

Mercy For Whom? The Bait and Switch of Robert Latimer.
Copeman Healthcare Centre, Vancouver.
22 Jan. 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.
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.
26 Oct. 2003

Understanding Schiavo: A Panel Consideration of a Problematic Case.
Am. Society of Bioethics and the Canadian Bioethics Society, Montreal, P.Q.
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.
20 Aug. 2000

Bioethics for Whom? The Limits of the Professional Posture.
Presented at the Third International Bioethics Retreat, Pembroke College, Cambridge, England.
16 Sept. 2000

Jefferson Lecture: Seeking Justice:
Fairness and efficiency in the field of organ transplantation. Clark University, Worcester, MA.
3 Nov. 1999

Prairie Conservatism and the Death of Tyrell Dueck.
CBC Radio Commentary.
5 July 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

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

The Healing Science of Narrative Art: A Chorus of Experience.
Keynote lecture. Healing and the Creative Arts. Simon Fraser University. Vancouver.
3 May 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

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