{"title":"A Procedure for Managing Conflict of Interest When Forming Thesis Juries","authors":"B. Williams-Jones","doi":"10.7202/1044614AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1044614AR","url":null,"abstract":"Conflicts of interest in thesis juries, when not identified and appropriately managed, can lead to an uncritical and unfair evaluations that can then undermine trust in the process and threaten academic credibility and institutional reputation. This Commentary presents and justifies the choices made in developing a practical procedure to identify and manage conflicts of interest in the formation of Masters and PhD juries in the School of Public Health (ESPUM) at the University of Montreal.","PeriodicalId":30407,"journal":{"name":"BioethiqueOnline","volume":"6 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41759328","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Plaidoyer pour une reconnaissance de l’enfant comme agent moral : Une réponse à Verpaelst et Couture","authors":"A.-O. Affdal","doi":"10.7202/1044612AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1044612AR","url":null,"abstract":"Bien qu’il soit un etre vulnerable, l’enfant pourrait etre considere comme un agent moral dans certaines circonstances. Ainsi, il peut et devrait etre davantage associe aux decisions medicales le concernant.","PeriodicalId":30407,"journal":{"name":"BioethiqueOnline","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47565186","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Flesh, Foil, and Authenticity: Reflections on Johann AR Roduit’s “Flesh and Foil”","authors":"M. Gunderson","doi":"10.7202/1044608AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1044608AR","url":null,"abstract":"Johann AR Roduit’s poem, “Flesh and Foil,” raises a number of issues regarding enhancement, especially the need for principles to guide the process of human enhancement. The guidance that the poem seeks can be found in a combination of virtue ethics and authenticity.","PeriodicalId":30407,"journal":{"name":"BioethiqueOnline","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-04-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48945947","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Continuité et discontinuité dans les trajectoires de soins de personnes ayant une problématique complexe de santé : perceptions d’ergothérapeutes – une étude exploratoire","authors":"Édith Rondeau-Boulanger, Marie-Josée Drolet","doi":"10.7202/1044266AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1044266AR","url":null,"abstract":"Depuis la mise sur pied d’un systeme de sante finance par des fonds publics et dirige par un ministere de la sante, le reseau de la sante du Quebec a connu plusieurs changements. Par exemple, des changements ont ete realises au debut des annees 2000, visant en outre a ameliorer l’accessibilite et la continuite des soins de sante disponibles a la population quebecoise. En depit du souci du Ministere d’ameliorer la continuite des soins, des problemes persistent pour les personnes presentant une problematique complexe de sante. En effet, les individus aux prises avec une comorbidite, c’est-a-dire avec un probleme de sante physique et une autre de sante mentale, sont plus susceptibles de vivre des discontinuites dans leurs trajectoires de soins de sante (autrement dit une discontinuite dans leur acces aux soins), constituant une reponse peu adequate a leurs besoins. Pour comprendre ce que vivent des ergotherapeutes qui desservent de tels clients, une etude exploratoire a ete realisee. Le but de cette recherche etait d’explorer les perceptions d’ergotherapeutes a propos de la continuite et de la discontinuite dans les trajectoires de soins de ces clients. Les ergotherapeutes identifient des raisons qui, a leur avis, expliquent les discontinuites dans les trajectoires de soins des individus presentant une problematique complexe de sante, nomment plusieurs consequences negatives de ces discontinuites et mentionnent des facons pouvant contribuer a ameliorer la continuite des soins prodigues a ces personnes. La prise en compte des perceptions des ergotherapeutes s’avere pertinente afin d’ameliorer les soins offerts a ces personnes.","PeriodicalId":30407,"journal":{"name":"BioethiqueOnline","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48670360","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"54 rue DuBalcon","authors":"Audrey Kinkead","doi":"10.7202/1044281AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1044281AR","url":null,"abstract":"Documents photographiques temoignant de l’experience positive vecue entre une locatrice et sa locataireDimensions variees","PeriodicalId":30407,"journal":{"name":"BioethiqueOnline","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48454058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trouble du spectre de l’autisme : une agentivité morale objective, rigoriste et émotionnelle","authors":"S. Arnaud","doi":"10.7202/1044270AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1044270AR","url":null,"abstract":"Le trouble du spectre de l’autisme (TSA) designe un ensemble de troubles neurodeveloppementaux caracterise par des difficultes de communication et d’interactions sociales, ainsi que des comportements, interets et activites restreints et repetitifs (1). Concernant les interactions sociales, les personnes autistes auraient notamment des difficultes d’empathie, souvent considerees comme alterant leurs capacites morales. Ainsi, plusieurs etudes en psychologie et en neuroscience tentent de detecter des processus empathiques defaillants a l’origine d’alterations de leur comprehension de la moralite (2-4). Les problemes sociaux des personnes autistes se manifestent aussi par des difficultes dans leur vie affective qui concernent leurs propres etats emotionnels (5-9). Je suggere que les particularites morales des personnes autistes sont issues de leurs particularites d’acces emotionnel, soit la facon dont elles se rapportent a leurs propres emotions, et non pas de deficits d’empathie. Je montrerai que ces particularites ne les empechent en aucun cas de faire partie de la communaute morale. Les personnes autistes peuvent etre de rigoureux agents moraux, c’est-a-dire qu’elles presentent une certaine intransigeance et inflexibilite morale. Ces particularites seront expliquees. A la lumiere des theories sur les processus duaux, je montrerai comment leurs particularites socio-emotionnelles et morales sont toutes deux sous-tendues par une surutilisation de processus de type 2, soit une surutilisation de raisonnements cognitifs deliberes et bases sur des regles, plutot que des processus automatiques, de type 1. L’objectif principal de cette etude sera donc de mettre en evidence les particularites qui permettent aux personnes autistes d’etre des agents moraux certes inflexibles, mais neanmoins emotionnellement investis dans les situations a caractere moral.","PeriodicalId":30407,"journal":{"name":"BioethiqueOnline","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48718468","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Research Ethics and Commercial Drug Development: When Integrity Threatens Profitability","authors":"J. B. Pipon","doi":"10.7202/1044268AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1044268AR","url":null,"abstract":"This case, based on personal experiences and on those found in the literature, highlights the delicate tension faced by drug development companies having to balance research integrity and their profitability.","PeriodicalId":30407,"journal":{"name":"BioethiqueOnline","volume":"5 1","pages":"10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44267419","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Dear DTCA, Please Don’t Deceive Me, Don’t Play on My Fantasy","authors":"J. Bélisle-Pipon","doi":"10.7202/1044293AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1044293AR","url":null,"abstract":"In the face of drugs advertising, what can we do? Is Direct-to-Consumer Advertising (DTCA) designed to be beneficial by objectively presenting a product or are they rather seeking to convince us that their product is patently good? Through this song, the goal is to live the experience of a patient who is subject to drug advertising, by integrating into the stanzas the main ethical issues raised by advertising.","PeriodicalId":30407,"journal":{"name":"BioethiqueOnline","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42012318","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How I Got Pregnant: Should Having a Child Justify a Partner’s ‘Deception’?","authors":"Hazar Haidar","doi":"10.7202/1044271AR","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7202/1044271AR","url":null,"abstract":"This is a commentary related to the creative work by James Dwyer entitled “How I Got Pregnant”, a story that raises ethical issues about a woman’s request for medical assistance to get pregnant without the intention to disclose this to her husband. In this commentary, I argue that this woman’s attitude breaks trust with her husband, and show why the justifications she offered in order to argue for her request to conceive a child without her husband’s knowledge are flawed.","PeriodicalId":30407,"journal":{"name":"BioethiqueOnline","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2018-03-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42064924","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}