Canada is in the forefront of thinking about the unique and complex issues of contemporary
public health ethics. However, an inordinate focus on the urgent issues of emergency …

In this paper, the focus is not on some particular developmental feature of the human embryo,
but rather on the embryo's potential for development tout court. To this end, the moral …

This chapter provides a functional description of the health care ethics consultant who is
active in the clinical setting. It outlines the requisite knowledge, abilities, and traits of character …

C urrent CMA procedural guidelines on resuscitative intervention for the terminally ill clearly
stipulate that when the clinical assessment of a patient justifies the writing of a" Do not …

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When initial attempts to address a difficult moral problem have not been entirely successful,
there may be a request for a Bioethics Consultation to assist with the management and …

… Such improvement will be hampered if credence is given to Baylis's recommendations. …
Baylis seems to suggest that DNR orders bediscussed with terminally ill patients suchas the one …

If, as Buckman and Senn maintain, matters ofquality of life and financial considerations do not
inform their argument in support of unilateral DNR orders there would seem to be no good …

As the debate on the ethics of ex utero research on spare in vitro ('IVF') human embryos has
evolved, the focus has been primarily on the moral status of the developing human and the …

This chapter provides a functional description of the health care ethics consultant who is
active in the clinical setting. It outlines the requisite knowledge, abilities, and traits of character …