Engaging Substitute Decision-makers: Understanding Our Partnership Throughout the healthcare system, there is a need to work with and support substitute decision-makers in making treatment and personal care decisions for their…

What is Health Ethics Week? An event that is in rapid expansion, the annual National Health Ethics Week is a time Canadian health institutions, schools and universities, research and clinical ethics committees,…

Each year NSHEN coordinates an annual conference for health care providers, administrators and policy makers, exploring a health ethics issue that is relevant to those working in Nova Scotia’s health care…

Third Annual Dr. Fred Barton Visiting Scholar and Lecture in Ethics in Medicine  Hosted by Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University.  “(Mis)Trust me, I’m a doctor!” Embracing the…