New publication by members of the humanitarian health ethics research group as part of a project on the ethics of closing humanitarian projects. Link to article: https://escholarship.mcgill.ca/concern/articles/hh63t218k?locale=en Abstract Purpose In this paper, the authors propose a new lens to examine…
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Palliative Care in Humanitarian Crises: A Video
Erin Lin, an undergraduate student at McMaster University, has been working alongside HHERG members, Lisa Schwartz and Rachel Yantzi, on a video on Palliative Care in Humanitarian Crises. You can check it out below and let us know what you…
Humanitarian Governance Webinar with Guest Speaker Tammam Aloudat
Physician and Global Health Centre's managing director, Tammam Aloudat, is the next guest speaker joining the series from the Humanitarian Governance: Accountability, Advocacy, Alternatives research group. Aloudat's talk argues for an exploration of alternative ethical frameworks for humanitarian action. Register Here
Announcement: Joint Research Project on ‘Integrating Ethical Values in Humanitarian Use of Drones’ Has Come to an End
October 2021 The joint research project - Value Sensitive Innovation: Integrating Ethical Values in the Humanitarian Use of Drones - of McGill University and University of Zurich has come to an end in August 2021. The project involved both academic partners and…
“And whom do you let go?” a poster on palliative care in natural disaster settings
Takhliq Amir presented her fourth-year research project poster this week at McMaster University. Congratulations on the great analysis!
Perceptions of EVD Research — August 2017 Progress Report
One year into this project, we are finalizing data collection, moving forward with analysis, and have begun dissemination activities. Read an update here.
Foundations – Gautham Krishnaraj
Foundations. Perspectives from a new Global Health Student and Humanitarian Health Care Ethics Research Group Trainee Gautham Krishnaraj, MSc Global Health Candidate (McMaster University) From Montreal… In September 2014, at the peak of the Ebola outbreak that inundated the minds…
On captions
Susan Sontag, in explaining the way a single photograph can be used to support any number of points of view, stated that "all photographs wait to be explained or falsified by their captions" (2003: 10).
Our global complicity in torture? Palliative Care & Ethics
There is a moral imperative here to address complicity through inaction in suffering on a global scale, especially for those at the end of life.
WADEM + HumEthNet = 2017 Ethics Workshop
HumEthNet is building a strong presence on ethics for WADEM2017 in Toronto.
For more information about ethics@WADEM please contact Renaud Boulanger or Lisa Schwartz.
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