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Ocular gene transfer communications: Developing ethical frameworks for phase I choroideremia clinical trials
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I investigate how to ethically communicate about a phase I gene transfer trial for choroideremia, a blinding retinopathy, in light of this novel biotechnology’s portrayal as a potential ‘cure’. I analyzed gene transfer communications in three contexts: (1) interviews with clinicians (n=15),...
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Spring 2013
PURPOSE AND PROBLEM: Neonatology, the study of the newborn, marks the moment when the infant enters the world and encounters the parent. As the branch of medicine concerned with caring for this new child, neonatology facilitates the process of receiving the child. It is after the delivery, the...
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Fall 2012
The purpose of this investigation is to formulate a theory of change. To this end, I first explore what goal(s) can productively inform a wide range of struggles. I argue in favour of an experimental ethics tentatively geared towards non-domination --a way of organising relations where parties...
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Re-storying Indigenous Trauma: Considerations for Indigenous Ethics of Relational Care in Gladue Reporting
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After no reduction in Indigenous incarceration rates, the initiatives set out by the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) in R. v. Gladue [1999] have become a more than two-decades-long disappointment, having utterly failed in keeping their commitment to lower Indigenous incarceration rates and bring...
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Spring 2013
Professional accountants in business are expected to not only fulfill legitimate organizational objectives, but also to recognize and deal with the ethical impact of their decisions on a diverse set of stakeholders. Prior research has investigated accountants’ ethical reasoning, but little is...
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The ethical development and sustainability of trauma registries in low- and middle-income countries
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Trauma registries are an anonymized, systematic, prospective data banks for trauma patients that may include details on demographics, injury details, hospital processes, and outcomes. They are an important component of trauma care systems and a tool for improving outcomes in trauma. Given the...
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Spring 2021
There are many things that we might feel obligated to justify to other people, but having a child is not usually one of them. It is difficult to imagine a decision more personal, or more apparently within one’s rights to make. Yet in recent decades a number of thinkers have raised questions and...