3rd Annual Upshur Lecture on Public Health Ethics Title: Points of Intersection Revisited: The Ethics of Humanitarian Healthcare Practice Speaker: Lisa Schwartz (McMaster University) Date: Wednesday, 12 November 2014 Time: 4:30-6:00pm Location: Room 108, Health Sciences Building, University of Toronto,…
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Read "The unprecedented lead-poisoning outbreak: Ethical issues in a troubling broader context", Public Health Ethics first published online 11 September 2014.
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Recently, HumEthNet's Lisa Schwartz was asked to comment on the ethics of pursuing experimental treatment and prevention interventions in relation to the recent Ebola outbreak. Listen to her interview on CBC Hamilton and read her comments on Impact Ethics blog…
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An international medical NGO is staffing a health clinic in a remote village located near a large-scale agriculture enterprise operated by a multinational corporation. Many of the clinic's patients are migrant workers who have come to the region seeking work…
by Kacper Niburski, HumEthNet contributor Health can bridge the political. At its core, it is a fundamental cry of the humanity in all of us. Disease does not discriminate nor does sickness pledge partisanships. Only we do. The sixty-seventh World…
Read More World Health Assembly’s Recent Look at Health Care Under Attack
Researchers from the EU-funded COST Action project on ethical issues in disasters sign an open letter to EU citizens and politicians. Read the letter.
Attacks on healthcare workers and facilities are increasing, in both conflict and non-conflict settings. The targeting of healthcare workers and facilities has grave consequences for the delivery of care and the right to health in such settings. Join a live-streaming…
Ethics Grand Rounds Title: Nicaraguan Perceptions of Humanitarian Healthcare Missions Speaker: Elysée Nouvet Date: Wednesday, 14 May 2014 Time: 12:00-1:00 pm Location: McMaster University Medical Centre 4E20
by Lisa Schwartz On the 4th and 5th of November 2013, Paul Bouvier of the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and Nicolas Tavaglione of the University of Geneva hosted a symposium called "From humanity to complicity? Ethical duties…
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