What does it mean to “do bioethics”? Although the term “bioethics” has become colloquially synonymous with “clinical ethics”, each has distinct origins and differing foci. Bioethics is necessarily interdisciplinary and benefits from a wide range of backgrounds and experiences, but a barrier to bioethics research and practice arises from communication gaps between groups holding different assumptions and understandings of what “bioethics” means. This working group brings together persons from diverse professional and academic backgrounds—healthcare practitioners/administrators, academic philosophers, practicing clinical ethicists, students, and resident physicians—whose work intersects with bioethics, to address these questions: what does “doing bioethics” mean? How is bioethics employed in their professional practice? What effect have variations in understanding had on the present state of theoretical bioethics?
Leads
- Connor T.A. Brenna, Ph.D. student, Anaesthesia & Pain Medicine, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
- Stacy S. Chen, Ph.D. cand., Philosophy
- Sunit Das, Surgery, Temerty Faculty of Medicine
- Andrew Franklin-Hall, Philosophy
Faculty Members, University of Toronto
- Eric Mathison, Philosophy
- Frank Wagner, Family & Community Medicine
Faculty Members Outside University of Toronto
- Paul Ford, Director of NeuroEthics program, Cleveland Clinic
- Shawn Khan, Faculty of Medicine, McMaster University
- Nancy Walton, Daphne Cockwell School of Nursing, Toronto Metropolitan University
Postdoctoral Fellow Outside University of Toronto
- James Hart, Ethox Centre, University of Oxford
Graduate Students, University of Toronto
- Rachel Katz, History & Philosophy of Science & Technology
- Schuyler Pringle, Philosophy
- Lunan Zhao, Family & Community Medicine
Graduate Students Outside University of Toronto
- Alyssa Izat, Philosophy, University of British Columbia
- Joost Mollen, Digital Ethics Centre, TU Delft
Undergraduate Students, University of Toronto
- Joycelyn Ba, Medicine
- Matthew Cho, Medicine