By Martin A. Strosberg, PhD – Professor Emeritus, the Clarkson – Mount Sinai Bioethics Program In March and April of 2020, all eyes were on New York City, as they were for the cholera epidemics of the 19th century and… Read More
COVID 19 and the Mental Health Effects of Quarantine
Dr. Shakel Henson, BSc, MD, MPH, MSc, MSc, MSBioethics, FRSPH, FRSTMH The coronavirus disease (COVID-19), a newly emerging infectious disease, has severely affected morbidity and mortality rates on a global level. During this COVID-19 pandemic, the World Health Organization (WHO)… Read More
Paying What’s Due: Indian Residential Schools and the Canadian Health Care System
Irelie Riggle, MS in Bioethics student, Specialization: Policy In 2016, Indigenous people in Canada made up only 4.9% of the population, yet they have and continue to experience disproportionate rates of disease and infection. Indigenous people in Canada have been… Read More
Remembering Bob Veatch (1939-2020)
By Bob Baker That ever-present witness to, and always astute commentator on the birth of our field, Al Jonsen, once characterized Bob Veatch as “the original bioethicist” (Birth of Bioethics, 55). After a stint in Nigeria working for the peace… Read More