Health Ethics Today, formally The Bioethics Bulletin, was published jointly by PHEN and the John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre, University of Alberta from 1997 - 2009 - these issues are archived here. It is currently published by the John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre - current issues are posted on their website here.
Health Ethics Today provides informative, timely, and interesting pieces on health ethics issues relevant to Albertans and Canadians.
2007
Volume 17, Issue 1
Editor's Forum (Paul Byrne)
Should Health Care Professionals Heal or Squeal? Disclosure to Police Under a New Section of Alberta's Health Information Act (Tracey Bailey & Steve Penney)
Neonatal Drug Screening; Is It Justified in Babies of Drug Abusing Mothers? (Paul Byrne)
What is the Current Understanding of Brain Death in Canada? (Ari R. Joffe)
2006
Volume 16, Issue 1
Editor's Forum (Paul Byrne)
Canadian Bioethics and The United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (Dick Sobsey)
On the Banality of Ethics (Brendan Leier)
To Market, To Market: Changing Service Delivery to Children with Autism (Eleanor Stewart)
Governance of the Electronic Health Record (Mary Marshall & Joan Roch)
2005
Volume 15, Number 1
Editor's Forum (Paul Byrne)
Learning About the Role of the Hospital Ethicist (Marie Edwards)
Why Wouldn’t You Tell? Telling donor-conceived children about their conception (Eric Blyth & Irene Ryll)
Everyday Practice, Ethics and the Law: Capacity of a Minor to Consent (Tracey Bailey & Barbara Russell)
Interrogating Scarcity: The Challenge for Health Ethics (Ted Schrecker)
Book Review – The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness (Barbara Russell)
Volume 14, Number 1
Editor's Forum (Paul Byrne)
Ethics in Hard Places: The Ecology of Safer Systems in Modern Health Care (Patricia Marck)
Clinical Error and Scarce Organs (Barbara Russell)
Book Review- Complications: A Surgeon's Notes on an Imperfect Science
(Barbara Russell)
John Dossetor Graduate Scholarship in Health Ethics
Volume 14, Number 2
Editor's Forum (Paul Byrne)
Electronic Health Records and the Protection of Privacy (Glenn G. Griener)
Care for Patients in a Vegetative State: Reflections on Pope John Paul II's Recent Statement (Doris M. Kieser & Brendan Leier)
Research Ethics Education Forum (REEF): A Video Series on Health Research Ethics (Sharon Warren)
Prenatal Ultrasound and "Unexpected News" (Paul Byrne & Jeanne Van der Zalm)
In Memoriam: Mary Lou Cranston (Paul Byrne)
Coming to a Head Near You: face transplants! (Barbara Russell)
Book Review: Ethics for the Practice of Psychology in Canada (Wendy Austin)
Editor's Forum (Paul Byrne)
The Exploitation of Canadian Values - "Building on Values", the Romanow Report (Richard Fraser)
The social construct of health and medicine (Gregor Wolbring)
Letter to the Editor
Editor's Forum (Vangie Bergum & Bashir Jiwani)
Prescribing Mult-Functionalism to Achieve Equality in a World of Difference (Anita Silvers)
Disability and Allocation of Health Care Resources: The Case of Connor Auton (Peter Carver)
Altruisic Filicide: Bioethics or Criminology? (Dick Sobsey)
Robert & Tracy Latimer (Alister Browne)
Disability and Ethics Initiative (Eleanor Stewart)
In the First Person (Karyn Christensen)
Upcoming Events
Bioethics and Diability: Making Assumptions Explicit (Gregor Wolbring)
Editor's Forum (Vangie Bergum and Paul Byrne)
Alternative Knowledges, Alternative Healing: What Justifies the Label "Standard"? (Laura Shanner)
Physicians, Alternative Medicine and the Duty of Informed Consent (Timothy Caulfield)
Bioethics and Complementary Medicine: An Overview and Personal Perspective (Steven KH Aung)
In the First Person: Jim's Story (Jim Elphinstone)
Bioethic Week -- February 12-18, 2001
Case Study in Alternative Therapy and Public Health Care Services (Bashir Jiwani)
PHEN Distance Education Course
July 2000
Editor's Forum (Glenn G. Griener)
The Complexity of Bioethics, the Bioethics Complexity (Jason Scott Robert)
Are Multi-tiered Systems Morally Unjustifiable? (Anita Ho)
Announcement
Advertising in Health Ethics Today
February 2000
Editor's Forum (Al-Noor Nathoo)
When When Patients Demand Too Much (Alister Brown)
Talking About "Futility" to Families of Dying Patients: The Scope and Limits of Medical Judgment (Edward W. Keyserlingk)
Defining "Good" in Pediatric Cases (Kathleen Oberle & Stan F. Whitsett)
Book Reviews -- When Doctors Say No: The Battleground of Medical Futility (Randall Sargent, Christopher James Doig)
The Fabric of Goodness
Leadership for the New Millennium: Ethics 2000
Summer Seminar in Health Care Ethics
13th World Congress on Medical Law
Editor's Forum (Paul Byrne)
When Medicine Goes Too Far in the Pursuit of Normality (Alice Dreger)
Commentary: Normal vs. Abnormal (Elenor Stewart Muirhead & Susan James)
Case: Beyond Standard Medical Treatment
Case Commentary: Patient Preference Within the Canadian Health System (Michael Stingl)
CBS Conference Program (The Canadian Bioethics Society)
Assisting Those Infected with Hepatitis C (Glenn G. Griener)
Compensation for All Blood-Injured: The Reasons Why (November 1998) (Michele Brill-Edwards)
1999 Canadian Bioethics Society Conference
Fetal Rights and Maternal Autonomy: The Cases
Case Commentary: Justice in Prenatal Care (Laura Shanner)
In Profile: Laura Shanner
Case Commentary (Paul Byrne)
Annual Picard Lecture in Health Law (Dr. Abdallah Daar )
Staff Changes (John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre)
Editor's Forum (John B. Dossetor)
Examining the Need for Ethics Training for Hospital Support Staff in Direct Patient Contact (Richard Briggs)
Acting Upon Alberta's Protection for Persons in Care Act (Jim Thomson)
Legislated Trust: Protection for Persons in Care in Alberta (Janet C. Ross-Kerr)
Protection for Abused Adults in Alberta (Noela Inions)
Re-naming of The Bioethics Centre
1999 Canadian Bioethics Society Announcement
International Conference on DNA Sampling - Health Law Institute
A Case Study: Abuse in Care (Randall W. Sargent)
Case Study Commentary (Al-Noor Nathoo)
Editor's Forum (John B. Dossetor)
Choosing Now for the Future (Alberta Health)
Personal Directives and Reality - A Physician's Perspective (Kim McKenzie)
A Spiritual Perspective of Personal Directives (Reinie Hydemann)
Concerns About the New Alberta Personal Directives Act (Mark Addison)
A Case Study: Capacity and Personal Directives in Alberta (Gail Poole)
Art Exhibition Project (St. Joseph's College Ethics Centre)
Provincial Health Ethics Network News
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