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A bioethics blog hosted by the Memorial University Centre for Bioethics, St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada. https://impactethics.ca/

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Dalhousie’s Case Diversification: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (Part 2) In an ongoing series of commentaries, Lynette Reid describes the work done at Dalhousie University to diversify the case-based learning curriculum in the medical program.

#Dalhousie’s Case Diversification: Sexual Orientation and #Gender Identity (Part 2) - by Lynette Reid.
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18.02.2026 11:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dalhousie’s Case Diversification: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (Part 1) In an ongoing series of commentaries, Lynette Reid describes the work done at Dalhousie University to diversify the case-based learning curriculum in the medical program.

#Dalhousie’s Case Diversification: Sexual Orientation and #Gender #Identity (Part 1) - by Lynette Reid.
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11.02.2026 19:34 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Performative Policy: When Anti-Racism Is Managed, Not Practiced Danielle Gibbs Koenitzer examines how healthcare institutions manage anti-racism through policy and process while avoiding the structural changes required to protect marginalized patients and profe…

Performative #Policy: When #Anti-Racism Is Managed, Not Practiced - by Danielle Gibbs Koenitzer.
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22.01.2026 18:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dalhousie’s Case Diversification: Anti-Oppression and Race (Part 3) Lynette Reid describes the work done at Dalhousie to diversify the case-based learning (CBL) curriculum in the medical program.

#Dalhousie’s Case #Diversification: Anti-Oppression and #Race (Part 3) - by Lynette Reid.
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17.12.2025 14:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dalhousie’s Case Diversification: Anti-oppression and Race (Part 2) Lynette Reid describes the work done at Dalhousie to diversify the case-based learning curriculum in the medical program.

#Dalhousie’s Case #Diversification: Anti-oppression and #Race (Part 2) - by Lynette Reid.
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12.12.2025 12:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Dalhousie’s Case Diversification: An Anti-oppressive Approach to Race Lynette Reid describes the work done at Dalhousie University to diversify the case-based learning curriculum in the medical program.

#Dalhousie’s Case Diversification: An #Anti-oppressive Approach to #Race - by Lynette Reid.
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10.12.2025 19:53 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Misinformation, Social Isolation, and Loneliness among Aging Canadians Renee Boldut details the alarming related risks of aging, social isolation and loneliness, health misinformation, and poor health.

#Misinformation, Social Isolation, and #Loneliness among #Aging #Canadians - by Renee Boldut.
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24.11.2025 18:02 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Case Diversification in Dalhousie’s Medical Program Lynette Reid introduces the work done at Dalhousie to diversify the case-based learning curriculum in the medical program.

Case Diversification in #Dalhousie’s #Medical Program - by Lynette Reid.
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21.11.2025 17:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Misinformation, Public Trust, and Healthcare Burnout Janine Curtis ties the epidemic of burnout among health care providers in Newfoundland and Labrador to misinformation about the real causes of poor access to hospitals and clinicians.

#Misinformation, #Public #Trust, and #Healthcare #Burnout - by Janine Curtis.
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19.11.2025 12:15 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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IVF is Under Attack in the US. How Should Canadians Respond? Rhys Latus examines how the US has turned In-vitro Fertilization (IVF) into a moral battlefield and argues that Canada must defend IVF as a compassionate application of reproductive freedom.

#IVF is Under Attack in the #US. How Should #Canadians Respond? - by Rhys Latus.
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13.11.2025 18:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Misinformation about Medical Assistance in Dying Luca Norton presents the problems associated with the influence of misinformation on policy about medical assistance in dying in Canada.

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11.11.2025 13:35 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We Can’t Export Away our Legally Recognized Duties to Captive Cetaceans Andrew Fenton outlines the ethical and legal reasons against sending Marineland’s captive beluga whales to facilities in other countries.

We Can’t Export Away our Legally Recognized Duties to Captive #Cetaceans - by Andrew Fenton.
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04.11.2025 16:47 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Black Salve: A Crisis in Online Health Misinformation A.M. Kieley discusses online misinformation about black salve, a dangerous and ineffective “treatment” for cancer.

Black #Salve: A Crisis in Online #Health #Misinformation - by A.M. Kieley.
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29.10.2025 04:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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We’re Hiring! The Memorial University Centre for Bioethics and the Division of Population Health and Applied Health Sciences invite applications for two tenure-stream positions in Bioethics. Memorial University …

We’re Hiring!
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07.10.2025 18:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Kimmel Suspension and Public Health Ethics Chris Kaposy considers the most recent free speech violation by the Trump administration in light of conservative objections to pandemic-era efforts to limit harmful communication.

The Kimmel Suspension and Public Health Ethics - by Chris Kaposy. wp.me/p38o3S-1Ru

30.09.2025 16:32 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Gatekeeping Through Ableism: A Fractured Calling Danielle Gibbs Koenitzer contends that ableism in nursing education functions as a form of gatekeeping, which silences disabled voices, narrows the definition of who can be a nurse, and reinforces …

Gatekeeping Through #Ableism: A Fractured Calling - by Danielle Gibbs Koenitzer. wp.me/p38o3S-1Rl

18.08.2025 18:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The Short-Lived #Tax on Sugar-Sweetened Beverages in #NL - by Rachel Prowse and Kayla Crichton. wp.me/p38o3S-1Rb

13.08.2025 10:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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The PREPARED Code – A reminder not to forget the COVID-19 pandemic Doris Schroeder presents the PREPARED Code – a global code of conduct for research during pandemics.

The #PREPARED Code – A reminder not to forget the #COVID-19 pandemic - by Doris Schroeder.
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30.06.2025 14:06 — 👍 6    🔁 5    💬 0    📌 0
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CASGEVY: Rethinking Drug Costs Through the Lens of Public Access Maria Klimenko considers the extent to which the price of innovative treatments like CASGEVY, a type of gene therapy, should reflect not just the cost of development, but also their broader societa…

#CASGEVY: Rethinking #Drug Costs Through the Lens of Public Access - by Maria Klimenko.
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24.06.2025 12:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Prove AI Can’t Care First Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon argues that defaulting to AI in health settings could do more harm than good. Last month, Shopify CEO Tobi Lütke made headlines after publicly sharing a leaked interna…

Prove #AI Can’t Care First - by Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon. wp.me/p38o3S-1QC

26.05.2025 17:39 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Climate, Health and Equity – Canada Must Lead with Action Sharon E. Straus discusses the urgent need for the upcoming G7 summit to address climate change impacts on health.

#Climate, #Health and #Equity – #Canada Must Lead with Action - by Sharon E. Straus.
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20.05.2025 16:51 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Why Racism in Health Care is an Ethical Crisis: A Nursing Perspective Danielle Gibbs argues that addressing systemic racism in nursing is not only a moral imperative but an ethical necessity to uphold justice, beneficence, and non-maleficence within health care.

Why #Racism in #Health Care is an #Ethical Crisis: A #Nursing Perspective - by Danielle Gibbs.
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12.05.2025 14:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hope as a Moral Commitment Jade Ealy frames hope as a moral commitment—not rooted in a feeling, but in how we choose to show up in the world and how we care for one another.

#Hope as a #Moral #Commitment - by Jade Ealy.
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07.05.2025 13:10 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Rethinking Autonomy in Healthcare for Incarcerated Patients Ayla Raabis explores the state of autonomy in clinical settings for incarcerated patients in Canada and adopts a relational perspective to better understand how to promote autonomy. In Canada, appr…

Rethinking #Autonomy in #Healthcare for Incarcerated #Patients - by Ayla Raabis.
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17.04.2025 18:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Is Free, Canada-Wide Access to HIV Medications Reasonable? Julian Hopwood-Raja argues that universal, barrier-free access to HIV medicines is not just a matter of beneficence for patients and the health system but important for public health and ethical re…

Is Free, #Canada-Wide Access to #HIV Medications Reasonable? - by Julian Hopwood-Raja.
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14.04.2025 15:19 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Are Your Medical Photographs on the Internet? Part 2 Zach Patterson, Zack Marshall, and a grade 8 class in Calgary replicate a study showing the availability of patient photographs from medical case studies on the open internet.

Are Your #Medical Photographs on the #Internet? Part 2 - by Zach Patterson, Zack Marshall, and a grade 8 class in #Calgary.
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10.04.2025 18:46 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Beyond Compliance: Ethics in the Context of Privacy Dylan McKibbon argues that the concept of privacy has been long misunderstood and ought to be elevated to the status of a core bioethical principle to be regarded as a cornerstone of bioethical act…

Beyond Compliance: #Ethics in the Context of #Privacy - by Dylan McKibbon.
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09.04.2025 14:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A conceptual image of a cell karyotype exhibiting trisomy, three copies of one chromosome.

A conceptual image of a cell karyotype exhibiting trisomy, three copies of one chromosome.

Relational #Autonomy & Public Funding for Noninvasive #Prenatal Testing - by Biplab Kumar Halder.
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10.03.2025 13:59 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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