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50Merging arts and bioethics: An interdisciplinary experiment in cultural and scientific mediationBioethics 31 (8): 616-630. 2017.How to engage the public in a reflection on the most pressing ethical issues of our time? What if part of the solution lies in adopting an interdisciplinary and collaborative strategy to shed light on critical issues in bioethics? An example is Art + Bioéthique, an innovative project that brought together bioethicists, art historians and artists with the aim of expressing bioethics through arts in order to convey the “sensitive” aspect of many health ethics issues. The aim of this project was th…Read more
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279Impacts of the Early COVID-19 Pandemic on the Work of Bioethicists in CanadaCanadian Journal of Bioethics / Revue canadienne de bioéthique 5 (4): 20-29. 2022.Bioethics experts played a key role in ensuring a coherent ethical response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the fields of healthcare, public health, and scientific research in Canada. In the province of Quebec, a group of academic and practicing bioethicists met periodically in the early months of the pandemic to discuss approaches and solutions to ethical dilemmas encountered during the crisis. These meetings created the opportunity for a national survey of bioethics practitioners from different fi…Read more
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10Equality and Equity in Compensating Patient Engagement in Research: A Plea for ExceptionalismResearch Ethics 18 (2): 126-131. 2022.Engaging citizens and patients in research has become a truism in many fields of health research. It is now seen as a laudable—if not compulsory—activity in research for yielding more impactful and meaningful citizen/patient outcomes and steering research in the right direction. Although this research approach is increasingly common and commendable, we recently encountered a major obstacle in obtaining an ethics certificate from an institutional review board to conduct a study that places citize…Read more
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17Equality and Equity in Compensating Patient Engagement in Research: A Plea for ExceptionalismSage Publications Ltd: Research Ethics 18 (2): 126-131. 2021.Research Ethics, Volume 18, Issue 2, Page 126-131, April 2022. Engaging citizens and patients in research has become a truism in many fields of health research. It is now seen as a laudable—if not compulsory—activity in research for yielding more impactful and meaningful citizen/patient outcomes and steering research in the right direction. Although this research approach is increasingly common and commendable, we recently encountered a major obstacle in obtaining an ethics certificate from an i…Read more
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103Artificial intelligence ethics has a black box problemAI and Society 38 (4): 1507-1522. 2023.It has become a truism that the ethics of artificial intelligence (AI) is necessary and must help guide technological developments. Numerous ethical guidelines have emerged from academia, industry, government and civil society in recent years. While they provide a basis for discussion on appropriate regulation of AI, it is not always clear how these ethical guidelines were developed, and by whom. Using content analysis, we surveyed a sample of the major documents (_n_ = 47) and analyzed the acce…Read more
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130Launch of the Canadian Journal of Bioethics/Lancement de la Revue canadienne de bioéthiqueCanadian Journal of Bioethics/Revue canadienne de bioéthique 1 (1): 1-3. 2018.
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28Merging arts and bioethics: An interdisciplinary experiment in cultural and scientific mediationBioethics 31 (8): 616-630. 2017.How to engage the public in a reflection on the most pressing ethical issues of our time? What if part of the solution lies in adopting an interdisciplinary and collaborative strategy to shed light on critical issues in bioethics? An example is Art + Bioéthique, an innovative project that brought together bioethicists, art historians and artists with the aim of expressing bioethics through arts in order to convey the “sensitive” aspect of many health ethics issues. The aim of this project was th…Read more
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34Reproductive outsourcing: an empirical ethics account of cross-border reproductive care in CanadaJournal of Medical Ethics 45 (1): 41-47. 2019.Cross-border reproductive care (CBRC) can be defined as the movement from one jurisdiction to another for medically assisted reproduction (MAR). CBRC raises many ethical concerns that have been addressed extensively. However, the conclusions are still based on scarce evidence even considering the global scale of CBRC. Empirical ethics appears as a way to foster this ethical reflection on CBRC while attuning it with the experiences of its main actors. To better understand the ‘in and out’ situati…Read more
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34Gender Eugenics Between Medicine, Culture, and SocietyAmerican Journal of Bioethics 13 (10). 2013.No abstract
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243Imagining Truly Open Access Bioethics: From Dreams to RealityAmerican Journal of Bioethics 17 (10): 19-20. 2017.Imagine that you are part of the editorial board of a young bioethics journal committed to publishing open access (OA) and to ensuring accessibility to high quality and innovative scholarship. To support junior and interna- tional scholars who might not otherwise find places for their work in the leading Western bioethics journals, you do not charge author fees. Imagine also that you have no financial resources to pay for a professional website, auto- mated submissions manager, or even a part-ti…Read more