Vital Information to Guide Your Exploration of Health Ethics

These resources are designed to foster discussion and support learning and decision-making. In this section you will find resources on wide-ranging health ethics topics in a variety of formats: videos, podcasts and text-based resources.

Please note: The views expressed in the resources found on these pages are not necessarily those of, or endorsed by, the Nova Scotia Health Ethics Network.

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NSHEN Annual Conference

2025 Annual Conference
Trust Me: Rebuilding and Preserving Trust in Healthcare
April 17, 2025, 1-4pm, via Zoom

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.