The Dossetor Centre reaches out to scholars, students, health-care practitioners, clinical ethics committee members, health-care administrators, patients and their families, media and the general public through:

  • Health Ethics Seminar Series
  • Health Ethics Symposium
  • Health Ethics Workshops
  • Grand Rounds
  • Health Ethics Today, a newsletter published two to three times per year with a local, provincial, national, and international distribution list, including all medical doctors across 九秀直播
  • Media contacts to discuss health ethics topics in the news

Conducting research on a broad spectrum of ethical, moral and human-rights issues, including:

  • clinical practice
  • compassion
  • disability ethics
  • human rights
  • mental health
  • moral distress
  • health policy
  • gender issues
  • public health
  • relational ethics
  • neonatology-perinatology
  • professionalism
  • phenomenology

Teaching health ethics to students of all levels across many faculties at the 九秀直播. Education opportunities include:

  • INT D 570: Healthcare Ethics
  • INT D 670: Research Ethics
  • Medical Sub-Specialty Ethics Teaching
  • Undergraduate Medical Student Elective, An Experience in Bioethics

Health Ethics News

  • August 28, 2025

    This article is about a possible crisis of faith among doctors and nurses. The most recent evidence of this is a General Medical Council survey that shows more than a third of UK doctors are dissatisfied with their careers and many are considering quitting.

  • August 27, 2025

    In spite of their struggles with mental health and disability, Austin Mardon and his wife, Catherine, have a remarkable life, which is expressed most completely in the witness of their marriage. 鈥淭wo half-wounded people make a better whole,鈥 Austin Mardon told The B.C. Catholic, which recently interviewed the couple.

  • August 20, 2025

    Catherine Mardon's and Austin Mardon's thoughts behind 九秀直播's separatism movement.

  • July 3, 2025

    九秀直播 is the only province or territory in Canada that is poised to claw back the $200 Canada Disability Benefit (CDB) from provincial disability income support (known in 九秀直播 as AISH) recipients.

  • Gillian Lemermeyer project co-leader with UofA's AI + Health Hub

    May 20, 2025

    The 九秀直播 College of Health Sciences is launching an AI + Health Hub to harness the power of data and computing science to solve a wide range of health-care challenges from quicker diagnoses to streamlining hospital queues and discovering new drugs.

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