NEWS AND EVENTS
NSHEN Annual Conference
2025 Annual Conference
Trust Me: Rebuilding and Preserving Trust in Healthcare
April 17, 2025, 1-4pm, via Zoom
Ethics After Hours
Exploring entertainment with ethical overtones in health, social media, justice, etc.
Featuring a variety of content, including videos from platforms like Netflix, Prime Video, and YouTube, as well as audio content from various podcasts.
Fireside Chat
Conversations about ethical questions in healthcare practice
These videos are designed to raise questions, stimulate reflection, and promote discussion. They feature conversations with individuals who work in different places in healthcare talking about the ways that ethical issues come up in healthcare practice.
FEATURED ARTICLES
A summary of key points from recent ethics publications
We will be choosing articles from recent health ethics literature that we think will be of interest to ethics committee members as well as others working in our health care system.
PODCAST
It’s Complicated: A Podcast About Healthcare Ethics in Practice
NSHEN is excited to announce our new resource, a podcast called “It’s Complicated: A Podcast About Healthcare Ethics in Practice” with shows from the NSHEN Team and special guest speakers.
BIOETHICS BOOK CLUB
The Mad Women’s Ball
A New York Times best historical novel of the year, adapted as a major film for Amazon Prime, award-winning author Victoria Mas’s TheMad Women’s Ball is a feminist literary thriller set in Paris’s infamous Salpêtrière asylum.
Case Database Website
Our case database includes cases addressing issues in clinical and organizational ethics.
NSHEN Lending Library
NSHEN has a library of fiction and non-fiction books and audiobooks available for lending.
An Introduction to Health Ethics
What Is Health Ethics?
Ethics is the study of how human beings treat each other and the natural environment; it is the systematic examination of the attitudes and behaviours of people. Ethics is about carefully studying the values that actually do guide our attitudes and behaviours in given contexts, and it is about exploring what values ought to guide our attitudes and behaviours. No matter what our social, cultural, economic or professional backgrounds are, we are all in the business of practicing ethics on a daily basis. We have certain values (things we think are important for their own sake) and…
