As a benefit to its members, PHEN chooses and regularly distributes a particularly useful and interesting recent article appearing in the health ethics literature. This is made possible through an agreement with Access Copyright. 

We also provide a Busy People's Summary of each article, for those who are unable to find the time to read the full article - these are posted below.

Winter 2011

Browne, Alister. (2011). Sam Harris on Ethics. Unpublished.

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Spring 2011

Sherwin, Susan. (2011). Looking Backwards, Looking Forward: Hopes for Bioethics’ Next Twenty-Five Years. Bioethics, 25(2), 75-82. .

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The journal Bioethics has made this article available online free of charge - please click here.


Fall 2010

Gaudine, Alice; Thorne, Linda; LeFort, Sandra; Lamb, Marianne. (2010). Evolution of hospital clinical ethics committees in Canada. Journal of Medical Ethics, 36, 132-137.

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Summer 2010

Webster, George C. (2010). If I Could Say Five Things. Presented at the Canadian Bioethics Society Annual Conference, Kelowna BC, June 10, 2010.

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Spring 2009

Sternberg, Robert J. (2009, April 24). A New Model for Teaching Ethical Behavior. The Chronicle of Higher Education, 55(33), B14. 

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Fall 2008

Dwyer, James. (2007, September- October). What’s Wrong with the Global Migration of Health Care Professionals? Individual Rights and International Justice. Hastings Center Report, 37(5), 36- 43. 

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Summer 2008

Kassirer, Jerome P. (2007). Commercialism and Medicine: An Overview. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 16, 377- 386.

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Summer 2007

Card, Robert F. (2007). Conscientious Objection and Emergency Contraception. The American Journal of Bioethics, 7(6), 8-14.

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Winter 2007

Morin, Karine, Higginson, Daniel, & Goldrich, Michael. (2006). Physician obligation in disaster preparedness and response. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, 15(4), 417- 421.

Sokol, Daniel, K. (2006). Virulent epidemics and scope of healthcare workers? duty of care. Emerging Infectious Diseases, 12(8), 1238- 1241.

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Summer 2006

Fleck, L. M. (2006). The Cost of Caring: Who Pays? Who Profits? Who Panders? Hastings Center Report. 36(3), 13-17.

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Winter 2006

Pellegrino, E. (2005). Futility in medical decisions: The word and the concept. HEC Forum, 17(4), 308- 318.

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Fall 2005

Fox, E. & Tulsky, J. A. (2005, Spring). Recommendations for the ethical conduct of quality improvement. The Journal of Clinical Ethics, 17(1), 61-71.

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Summer 2005

Winkler, E. and Gruen, R. (2005, Mar/ Apr). First principles: Substantive ethics for healthcare organizations. Journal of Healthcare Management. 50(2), 109-120.

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