JCB members, faculty, staff and students gathered to celebrate the outstanding achievements of the bioethics community on June 24, 2015.
A new educational initiative injects a dose of ethics into surgical morbidity and mortality conference
Surgeons deal with ethical challenges daily, as they obtain consent to perform complex operations, implement innovations, disclose errors, or interact with surrogate decision-makers.
Public health ethics: What is it, why is it important, and what’s next?
Public health ethics has emerged as a distinct area of scholarship and practice since the Joint Centre for Bioethics first opened its doors twenty years ago.
Detaining Ebola – U of T professor and WHO panel member Ross Upshur on the ethics of quarantine
Bioethicist Dr. Ross Upshur, member of the World Health Organization expert panel on Ebola ethics, raises ethical considerations about when a quarantine is justified and how best to carry it out.
Prof. Jennifer Gibson appointed Director of the JCB
The Dean of the Faculty of Medicine announces the appointment of Professor Jennifer Gibson as Director of the Joint Centre for Bioethics, effective April 1, 2014 for a three year term.