The Dossetor Centre reaches out to scholars, students, health-care practitioners, clinical ethics committee members, health-care administrators, patients and their families, media and the general public through:

  • Health Ethics Seminar Series
  • Health Ethics Symposium
  • Health Ethics Workshops
  • Grand Rounds
  • Health Ethics Today, a newsletter published two to three times per year with a local, provincial, national, and international distribution list, including all medical doctors across Alberta.
  • Media contacts to discuss health ethics topics in the news

The Dossetor Centre has also developed a partnership with Alberta Health Services to provide support to the clinical ethicists and clinical ethics committees for the University of Alberta Hospital, the Stollery Children's Hospital and the Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute.

Conducting research on a broad spectrum of ethical, moral and human-rights issues, including:

  • clinical practice
  • compassion
  • disability ethics
  • human rights
  • mental health
  • moral distress
  • health policy
  • gender issues
  • public health
  • relational ethics
  • neonatology-perinatology
  • professionalism
  • phenomenology

Teaching health ethics to students of all levels across many faculties at the University of Alberta. Education opportunities include:

  • INT D 570: Healthcare Ethics
  • INT D 670: Research Ethics
  • Medical Sub-Specialty Ethics Teaching
  • Undergraduate Medical Student Elective, An Experience in Bioethics

Health Ethics News

  • New book explores Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying policies

    September 18, 2023

    In a chapter entitled MAID to Die by Medical and Systemic Ableism (pp. 299-308), of new book, "Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) in Canada: Key Multidisciplinary Perspectives", Heidi Janz considers the ways in which systemic ableism limits social and economic opportunities for people with disabilities, sometimes to the degree that they are compelled to seek an assisted death because they cannot access sufficient assistance to live.

  • Freedom of expression and the Jordan Peterson case

    August 24, 2023

    Tracey Bailey and Lisa Spiegel publish the article “Freedom of expression and the Jordan Peterson case: Divisional court upholds coaching requirement ordered by College of Psychologists”:

  • Respecting mental health and the law (part 2)

    August 04, 2023

    Part 2 of a two part publication, Gerald Chipeur and Tracey Bailey co-author “Understanding the rights of those with severe mental illness, substance use issues”.

  • Respecting mental health and the law (part 1)

    August 03, 2023

    Part 1 of a two part publication, Gerald Chipeur and Tracey Bailey co-author “Understanding the rights of those with severe mental illness, substance use issues”.

  • Opinion: Multi-pronged response to toxic drugs crisis must include safe supply

    June 09, 2023

    Cheryl Mack, Kinnon Ross, Kate Colizza, Corey Ranger, and Angie Staines discuss how the ongoing controversy about prescribed safer supply (PSS) is impeding an effective response to the unregulated drug poisoning emergency in Canada.

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