Bioethics

Presentations/Lectures

• The Practitioner’s Paradox: Conscientious, but without Conscience.Physicians for Life: Zoom meeting

  May 12, 2022.

• Webinar. Ethics and the caregiver of persons with dementia.Canadian Alzheimer Society https://vimeo.com/306832525

  Dec. 17, 2018.

• Podcast, The Accad & Koka Report (San Francisco).Thieves of Virtue. https://accadandkoka.com/episode50/

  Dec. 20, 2018.

• Professionalism and its limits. Academy for Professionalism in Health Care.Annual Meeting, Baltimore, MD.

  April 26, 2018.

• “Epidemiology and Public Health: What’s new and…what’s not.” At: Journals and Epidemiology Conference: Is it time to call it a day? Bristol, UK.

  Oct. 7, 2016.

• “An epidemic of epidemics: The Microbes’ Point of View.” Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, Second Annual Conference. Washington, DC.

  July 27, 2016.

• “From Plague to Ebola: fighting the diseases that war promotes.” Avoiding Catastrophe Linking Armed Conflict, Harm to Ecosystems, and Public Health.” Concordia University, Montreal.

  May 4-6, 2016.

• “Predicate acts and conditions.” Medical Aid in Dying: Developing A framework. University of Toronto Institute of Health Policy, Management and Evaluation. Toronto, ON.

  Oct. 27, 2015.

• The Hippocratic thorn in Bioethics’ side. American Society of Of Bioethics and the Humanities Annual Meeting, Houston, Texas.

  Oct. 24, 2015.

• “Aid in dying” requires, first, assistance in living. Health Law Canada: Sympoisum on Medical Aid in dying: Developing a framework. Institute of Health Policy and Management, University of Toronto.

  Oct. 27, 2015.

• The scarcity of … scarcity: The Wreck of the William Brown. Inquiry, http://www.wicn.org/podcasts/audio/tom-koch-wreck-william-brown

  Aug. 21, 2015.

• Thieves of Virtue: The ethics of bioethics, a history. Inquiry. http://www.wicn.org/podcasts/audio/tom-koch-thieves-virtue

  June 2015.

• “The lies behind nice words.” Panel. Medically Assisted Dying, Vancouver Club, Vancouver, BC

  29 Jan 2015

• Global Health: The very Idea! For a seminar: Mapping global health. Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Department Medical History, Baltimore, MD.

  25 March 2014

• 40 Years of Practice: Medicine and Ethics, then and now. 1973 Graduating Class, University of Toronto School of Medicine. 40th Anniversary Celebration. Toronto, Ontario.

  1 Nov 2013

• “Bioethics: Whose disabled now?” Panel: Disabled Bioethics, Annual meeting pf the Am. Soc. for Bioethics and the Humanities, Atlanta, Georgia

  24 Oct 2013

• Who’s Dead Now? Science, Philosophy and Medicine Today. Center for the Study of Science and the Humanities, University Of Bergin

  31 May 2013

• Ethics, Bioethics, and Medical Science. Lectures in Honor of the 50th Birthday of Søren Holm. University of Oslo, Center for Medical Ethics

  28 May 2013

• Soren Holm and European Bioethics, An Appreciation. Lectures in Honor of the 50th Birthday of Søren Holm. University of Oslo, Center for Medical Ethics

  28 May 2013

• The History of Social Activism in Medicine: What Happened to it? St. Michael’s Hospital: Rounds in Community Medicine, Toronto, ON.

  13 Sept. 2012

• Age, Aging and Allocation: The failure of success. Plenary Lecture, 32nd Annual meeting of the Korean Medical Association, Seoul, Korea.

  June 2012

• Down Syndrome, Feticide, and the Politics of Difference. Canadian Down syndrome Society Annual Meeting, Delta Chelsea Hotel, Toronto, Canada

  19 May 2012

• Lifeboat Ethics: The Scarcity of “Scarcity”. Green College, Vancouver, BC.

  Feb. 2012

• A Little Paternalism Can Be a Very Good Thing Copeman Healthcare, Vancouver, BC.

  Feb. 2012

• 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

• An epidemic of epidemics:The Microbes’ Point of View.” Disaster Medicine and Public Health Preparedness, Second Annual Conference.Washington, DC.

  July 27, 2016.

• Epidemiology and Public Health:What’s new and…what’s not.” At: Journals and Epidemiology Conference: Is it time to call it a day? Bristol, UK.

  October 7, 2016.

• “Epidemiology and Public Health: What’s new and…what’s not.”At: Journals and Epidemiology Conference: Is it time to call it a day? Bristol, UK. https://youtu.be/wSO4ZWfBwI0

  Oct. 7, 2016.