Call for abstracts/papers
Request for Contributions to Bibliography for "Ethics at the Business-Health Care Interface" Projec. tFor more details, click here.
Call for Papers for Conference "Ethics at the Business-Health Care Interface" planned for Fall 2010. For more details, click here.
McMaster University and Whitby
Mental Health Centre (Canada) are pleased to announce a new,
free, international, peer-reviewed, web-based journal: “JOURNAL
OF ETHICS IN MENTAL HEALTH”, WWW.JEMH.CA
- 3 issues per year available free online
- Short articles; case studies; insights
- Helpful ideas for frontline caregivers
- Submissions are now being accepted |
Conferences, Workshops, etc.
22nd Annual CBS Conference. Saint John, New Brunswick. Excellence in Health Care: Meeting the Challenges of Sustainability (getting value-for-money) June 2-4, 2011. Abstract deadline is February 28, 2011.
Moral Distress in Health Care Symposium. September 18 & 19, 2010. Immediately preceding the International Philosophy of Nursing (IPONS) Conference. http://www.nursing.ubc.ca/IPONS/
Coast Plaza Hotel & Suites. 1763 Comox Street, Vancouver, BC. Click here for the brochure. Click here for the Registration form.
Conference in Saskatoon titled: Dementia, Mental Illness & Addiction: Ethical Dilemmas, Ethical Demands on November 18th & 19th, 2010. Registration Form. Call for Abstracts. Program.
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).
ERASMUS MUNDUS scholarships for visiting scholars for a stay at one of the partner universities for a period of three months. Visiting scholars may be either junior scholars involved in completion of a PhD. dissertation, post-doctoral scholars or professors. Please visit our website www.masterbioethics.org for more information.
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
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.
The Novel Tech Ethics Research
Team, based at Dalhousie University, announces the launch
of its new website! Come
check us out!
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
There are no updates to the "Guidelines for Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Research" effective June 29, 2007. The human embryonic stem cell registry is now online. The Policy Details document has been updated and renamed Policy Highlights. In addition, the procedures for submitting stem cell research applications, the Frequently Asked Questions, and the application forms have been also been updated. Please visit this link for details.
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.
There are no updates to the "Guidelines for Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Research" effective June 29, 2007. The Frequently Asked Questions have been updated to answer questions about induced human pluripotent stem cells, obtaining consent, and cybrid research. Please visit http://www.cihr-irsc.gc.ca/e/36552.html for details.
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).
Health Ethics Today, Volume 17(1)
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 Guidelines
for Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Research have been updated,
effective June 29, 2007. Please
visit for details.
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 |
