Call for abstracts/papers
JERHRE - Call for Papers: Critical Issues in HIV-Related Community-Based Participatory Research. Click here for more info
Request for Contributions to Bibliography for "Ethics at the Business-Health Care Interface" Project. For more details, click here.
Call for applications
In brief, the Master of Health Science (MHSc) in Bioethics at the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics is a 2 year course-based* program with no thesis requirement. It is conducted in modular format to allow high achieving professionals to earn a master's degree without interrupting their careers. Click here for more info. |
Conferences, Workshops, etc.
23rd Annual CBS Conference. Montreal, Quebec. Fostering innovation in Canadian Bioethics. May 31st to June 2nd 2012, Delta Centre-ville Hotel. Conference website.
Intensive European Bioethics Course "Human Genetics and Medical Technology"
(Nijmegen, the Netherlands, 12 - 15 March 2012). Click here for more info.
SPIRITUALITY: THE INVISIBLE INGREDIENT IN HEALTH AND HEALING
May 3 and 4, 2012. Coast Plaza Hotel and Suites. Vancouver, British Columbia. Program and registration.
July 9-11, 2012.'Medical Identities: patients and professionals'. The 2012 conference of the Association for Medical Humanities will take place at University College Cork, Ireland. Please send a 200 word proposal to the organisers at medhumsireland@gmail.com by January 31, 2012. Suggestions for panels are also welcomed. Click here for more info.
2012 PHC Spirituality Conference, Spirituality: The Invisible Ingredient in Health & Healing. May 3 and 4, 2012 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Call for Proposals
Grants,
Burseries, Awards
The CIHR Ethics Office is pleased to announce the recent launch of several funding opportunities for research in ethics related to health, health research and/or health policy. These Priority Announcements offer additional sources of funding for highly rated relevant applications in the Operating Grant and Meetings, Planning and Dissemination Grant competitions. To learn more about current funding opportunities, please visit CIHR’s Funding Opportunities Database. If you have questions regarding the initiatives led by the Ethics Office, please contact Lynne Cayer, Ethics Policy Advisor (613-952-4264; lynne.cayer@cihr-irsc.gc.ca).
The CIHR Ethics Office encourages you to visit its Research on Ethics web page and to apply to its current funding opportunities.
Erasmus MUndus
Master of Bioethics: fellowships. Info Please consult our website www.masterbioethics.org |
Various
The Center for Bioethics and Culture Network would like to invite you to nominate the 2011 Paul Ramsey Award winner. Click here for more info.
Petition Against the Appointment of the VP of Pfizer Canada to CIHR Governing Council. Click here.
The Ethics Office of the Canadian Institutes of Health Research is pleased to release the sixth issue of its on-line newsletter Ethics Live! @ CIHR http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/35645.html.
Canadian Neuroethics Interest Group and Survey. Click here for all the information.
New book : The Cambridge Textbook of Bioethics, a reference for clinicians that we hope will become one of the standard-bearers in the field. See details
PHEN Intro to Bioethics Distance Education Course 2008, see brochure. Additional course details are contained in the attached brochure and on our website at http://www.phen.ab.ca/disted
The World Medical Association on-line course, Fundamentals of Medical Ethics, is now available
and can be accessed at this link.
Creation of the Society for Neuroethics
: An interdisciplinary group of scholars, scientists and clinicians
who share an interest in the social, legal, ethical and policy
implications of advances in neuroscience. http://www.neuroethicssociety.org
CIHR: We invite you to subscribe
to the "CIHR's News for Researchers" to receive
our various announcements directly: http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/26626.html. |
Publications
Peter Singer and Abdallah Daar : «How biodevelopment can enhance biosecurity» in the March/April 2009 issue of the Bulletin of the
Atomic Scientists. You can access the full article by subscription through your institution or purchase it on the Bulletin's website at this URL.
Emeritus professor Rodrigue Tremblay, Stanford Ph.D. '68 has just published a book about global ethics in Canada and in Europe under the title of “Le Code pour une éthique globale, vers une civilisation humaniste”. The publication of the English version is scheduled for early summer under the title of “The Code for Global Ethics, toward a humanist civilization.” Further information about the books can be accessed from these sites:
www.lecodepouruneethiqueglobale.com/
www.thecodeforglobalethics.com/ The French version of the book is presently available on Amazon. In-depth information about the author can be accessed from this site.
Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment, The College of Physicians & Surgeon of Manitoba. Statement No.1602 and case law of Golubchuk v. Salvation Army Grace General Hospital et al. (Cited as: 2008 MBQB 49).
New Book from the University of Toronto Press by Yukiko Asada : Health Inequality: Morality and Measurement. In Healthy Inequality, Asada describes the role that morality plays when researching and analyzing data related to studying the inequalities of a nation’s health and/or heath care system. Click here to get to the promotional flyer featuring ordering information and a 20% discount.
Release of the final version of the CIHR Guidelines for Health Research Involving Aboriginal People (May 2007) Click here
The CIHR Procedure
for Addressing Allegations of Non-Compliance with Research
Policies has been updated (Dec 2006). Click
here
New book on Neuroethics,
"Neuroethics in the 21st Century",
Oxford University Press. Click Here |
