Curriculum Vita
Chris J. MacDonald, Ph.D.
Department of Philosophy
St. Mary’s University
Halifax, NS
B3H 3C3
Tel: 902-420-5820
Fax: 902-420-5181
Citizenship: Canadian
Education
/ DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY in Philosophy, from the University of British Columbia, 1999.Thesis title: “The Moral Significance of Social Conventions.”
Supervisor: Peter Danielson
Committee: Paul Russell (Philosophy); Wayne Norman (Applied Ethics)
External Examiner: Jan Narveson (Philosophy, University of Waterloo)
MASTER OF ARTS in Philosophy, from the University of British Columbia, 1994. Thesis title: “The Ethical Implications of a Subjective Model of Risk Assessment in Product Safety Cases.” Supervisor: Michael McDonald.
BACHELOR OF ARTS (Honours) in Philosophy and Political Studies, from Trent University, 1992.
Areas of Specialisation / Moral Theory; Health Care Ethics; Professional Ethics; Business Ethics;
Areas of
Competence / Environmental Ethics; Ethics and Technology; Political Philosophy; Critical Thinking; History of Moral Philosophy;
Employment History / Sept. 1, 2002 - present
Jan.-June 2002:
2001-2002:
Fall 2001: / Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy,
St. Mary’s University
Assistant Professor, Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
Instructor, UBC Distance Education
Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University (Supervisor: Dr. Charles Weijer)
Employment History, cont’d / 1999-2001:
1999-2001:
1998-2000:
1993-1999:
1995-1996:
1992-1999:
1991: / Post-Doctoral Fellow, Department of Bioethics, Faculty of Medicine, Dalhousie University (Coordinator of the Health Law, Policy, and Ethics Collaboration. Supervisor: Dr. Nuala Kenny)
Assistant Professor (part-time), Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
Course Author for Philosophy 434 (Business Ethics), UBC Distance Education
Research Assistant, U.B.C. Centre for Applied Ethics
Graduate Instructor, U.B.C. Department of Philosophy
Teaching Assistant, U.B.C. Department of Philosophy
Environmental Awareness Summer Student, Township of West Carleton
Honours & Awards / 1999:
1995-1998:
1992-1995:
1992:
1992:
1991:
1989:
1989:
1988-1992: / Student Essay Prize, Canadian Society for the Study of Practical Ethics
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council
Doctoral Fellowship.
University Graduate Fellowship, U.B.C.
James Creery Memorial Essay Prize in Philosophy, Trent University
The Denis Smith Essay Prize in Political Studies, Trent University
H. Clare Sootheran Scholarship, Trent University
Ralph McEwen Scholarship, Trent University
Bruce Barrett Memorial Prize, Trent University
Dean’s Honours List, Trent University
Teaching
Courses TaughtCourses Taught, cont’d / Winter 2002:
Fall 2001/ Winter 2002:
Summer 2001:
Winter 2001:
Summer 2000:
Winter 2000:
Fall 1995: / Philosophy 1010 (Intro to Philosophy, Dalhousie)
Philosophy 1100 (Legal Thinking, Dalhousie)
Philosophy 2081 (Business Ethics, Dalhousie)
Philosophy 434 (Business Ethics) UBC Distance Education
Philosophy 2081 (Business Ethics), Dalhousie University Department of Philosophy.
Philosophy 2081 (Business Ethics), Dalhousie University Department of Philosophy.
Philosophy 2081 (Business Ethics), Dalhousie University Department of Philosophy.
Philosophy 2081 (Business Ethics), Dalhousie University Department of Philosophy.
Philosophy 230 (Moral & Political I), U.B.C. Philosophy Department.
Students Supervised
Other Teaching / 2001:
1999-2000:
1994-1998:
1992-1997: / Christopher Yorke, Philosophy Undergraduate, Dalhousie University, Associated Medical Services Scholarship Project, “Rethinking the Role of the Sitter in the Hospital Environment” (co-supervised with Prof. Susan Sherwin, Dal Philosophy)
Luke Chen, Med 1 Student, Dalhousie University
Elective Project title: “Does personal autonomy allow health care professionals to refuse to participate in abortions?”
(This paper won Dalhousie Med School’s Robinson Award, as one of the top two first-year Humanities Elective papers.)
Ethics Tutor / Discussion Leader for U.B.C. Medical School's Division of Health Care Ethics, for Vancouver Hospital & Health Science Centre, and for the U.B.C. School of Pharmacology.
Teaching Assistant (U.B.C.) for: Biomedical Ethics; Business & Professional Ethics; Environmental Ethics; Moral and Political Philosophy I; Moral & Political Philosophy II; Intro to Logic & Critical Thinking; Intro to Scientific Reasoning; Intro to Philosophy; Knowledge & Reality; Philosophy of Mind.
Graduate Theses Examined / 2001: / Christopher Maddocks, “The Intransitivity of Aesthetic Preferences,” M.A. Thesis, Department of Philosophy, Dalhousie University
Peer-Reviewed Publications / “The Emergence of Organisational Ethics and its Implications for Health Policy” (with Carolyn Ells) Healthcare Management Forum, Sept. 2003 (in press)
“Charitable Conflicts of Interest” (with M. McDonald and W. Norman)
Journal of Business Ethics 39:1-2, 67-74, August 2002.
“Moral Constraint, Public Goods, and Humean Social Conventions,” Journal of Social Philosophy (2003, in press)
"Elevator Justice: A Study in the Ethics of Everyday Technology"
Radar: Technology and Ethics Review Vol. 1, No. 1 (in press)
“Treatment Resistance in Anorexia Nervosa and the Pervasiveness of Ethics in Clinical Decision-Making,” The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry (April, 2002, in press).
“Relational Professional Autonomy” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics, (2002, in press).
“Commercialization of Genetic Services: the Role of Genetic Counselors,” Human Reproduction & Genetic Ethics 8:1(2002) 1-3.
“Nurse Autonomy as Relational.” Nursing Ethics Vol. 9 No. 2 (2002) 194-201.
“Ethics and Genetics: Susceptibility Testing in the Workplace” (with B. Williams-Jones). Journal of Business Ethics. Vol. 35, No. 3 (February 2002)235-241.
“Evolutionary Ethics: Value, Psychology, Strategy and Conventions.” Evolution and Cognition. Vol. 7, No. 1, 2001. 98-105.
“Organizational Ethics Canadian Style” (with Nuala Kenny, Jocelyn Downie, and Carolyn Ells). HEC Forum. Vol. 12, No. 2 (June 2000). 141-148.
“Clinical Standards and the Structure of Professional Obligation,” Professional Ethics, Vol. 8, No.1, 2000. 11-17.
“Evolutionaire Ethiek: Psychologie en Conventies,” (“Evolutionary Ethics: Psychology and Conventions”) published in Dutch, in Ethiek en Maatschappij (Ethics and Society). Vol. 2, No. 4, 1999. 53-61.
“Trust in the Market Place: An Exploratory Computer Simulation” in Business and Professional Ethics Journal. Vol. 16, Nos. 1-3, 1998. 225-238. (Scheduled for translation into Chinese, for publication in a volume edited by Professor Lu Xiaohe, Centre for Business Ethics, Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences)
Peer-Reviewed Publications,
cont’d
/ “Evolutionary Perspectives on Ethics,” Encylcopedia of Applied Ethics, Vol. 2, Academic Press, 1998. 189-196.With Peter A. Danielson, "Hard Cases in Hard Places: Singer's Agenda for Applied Ethics," Dialogue: the Canadian Philosophical Review, XXXV (1996). 599-610.
"MacDonald Reviews Viminitz," in the Brown Electronic Article Review Service, Vol. 2. Jamie Dreier and David Estlund, editors. Posted July 31, 1996. (Critique of "No Place to Hide: Campbell's and Danielson's Solutions to Gauthier's Coherence Problem" Dialogue: Canadian Philosophical Review, XXXV, No. 2 (1996) 235-40. by Paul Viminitz) (Review on World Wide Web, at:
Edited Volumes
/ “Special Issue: Proceedings of the Conference of the Canadian Society for the Study of Practical Ethics.” Business and Professional Ethics Journal. (Co-edited with Philip MacEwen) (in preparation; anticipated late 2002)"Environmental Ethics: Sustainability, Competition, & Forestry", (Working Paper #2, Centre for Applied Ethics.
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications
/ “Manners & Ethics: Is it Wrong to be Rude?” Newsletter of the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Saskatchewan (February, 2002, in press)“Stem Cell Ethics and the Forgotten Corporate Context,” American Journal of Bioethics 2:1 (2002) 54-56.
“Out of the Frying Pan and Into the Fire? The Alternativization of Women’s Health.” Annals of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Vol. 35, number 1, February 2002.
“Sugar Pills vs Medicine: the Ethics of Placebo-Controlled Trials,” Parkhurst Exchange 10:1, January 2002. 134.
“Review of Lori Andrews’ Future Perfect: Confronting Decisions About Genetics.” Heredity, 87:6. December, 2001
“Genomics have limited value,” Parkhurst Exchange 9:12, December 2001. 23.
“Stem Cells: A Pluripotent Ethical Challenge.” BioScan (Toronto Biotechnology Initiative) Vol. 13, Iss. 4, Fall 2001.
“Ethics of the unusual: Facing demands for unconventional treatment,” Parkhurst Exchange, Vol. 9, No. 6, June 2001. 122.
Non-Peer-Reviewed Publications, cont’d / “Yes, Human Cloning Should be Permitted,” Annals of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Vol. 33, No. 7, 2000. 437-438. (Anthologized in Dialogues: An Argument Rhetoric and Reader, 4th edn, by Gary Goshgarian and Kathleen Krueger, forthcoming in 2002)
“A Guide to Moral Decision-Making,” in Everyday Ethics: Putting the Code Into Practice. Canadian Nurses Association, 1998.
“British Columbia’s Professional Foresters Have a Public Role to Play,” in RPF Forum (Association of BC Professional Foresters), Vol. 6. Iss. 2. March/April, 1999. 22.
“A Laser in My Pocket,” in Radar: Ethics & Technology Review. November, 1998.
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“The Ethics of Web Site Engineering", in the July 1995 issue of Computer-Mediated Communication Magazine. (
Letters to the Editor / “An Organization's Failure to Learn is an Ethical Failure” British Medical Journal On-line (Rapid Response) May 22, 2001.
Papers
in Progress / Under Review / “Proxy Contractarianism: Parsing the Non-Tuism Requirement”
-in preparation, for submission to the Canadian Journal of Philosophy
“A COX-2 Formulary Decision: An Ethics Case Study” (with D. Frail, Nova Scotia Department of Health)
- in preparation, for submission to The Journal of Managed Care Pharmacy
“Pedigree Studies Through the Lens of the Family” (with C. Weijer)
- in preparation
“Rights-Hacking Tools for the Masses, or How Microsoft Made it Easier to Violate Copyright”
- submitted to Wired Magazine
Books
/ A Theory of Professional Ethics (manuscript in preparation)Conferences Organised / Co-chair: Annual Meeting of the Canadian Society for the Study of Practical Ethics, Université Laval - Québec - 25-27 May, 2001.
Co-chair: “Evolutionary Perspectives in the Social Sciences and Humanities,” an international, interdisciplinary, S.S.H.R.C.-funded conference held at the University of British Columbia, October 1997.
Scholarly Presentations
Conference Presentations
Conference Presentations, cont’d
Conference Presentations, cont’d / "Patents and Benefit-Sharing as a Challenge for Corporate Ethics," to be presented at the 3rd International DNA Sampling Conference
3rd International DNA Sampling Conference, Montreal, Sept. 2002
“Proxy Contractarianism”
Atlantic Regional Philosophy Association. Sackville, NB, Sept. 2001
“Organisational Ethics and Provincial Formulary Management: A Case Study,”
Ethics Practitioners’ Association of Canada. Truro, NS, Feb. 2001
“The Fallacy of Professional Autonomy”
American Society for Bioethics and Humanities, Salt Lake City, Utah.
October 2000
“Relational Professional Autonomy”
12th Annual Canadian Bioethics Society Conference, Québec City, Qué., October 2000
“Social Conventions and (Ir)Rational Decisions”
Atlantic Regional Philosophy Association, Halifax, NS
October 2000
“Organizational Ethics and Provincial Health Policy”
International Institute for Public Ethics, Ottawa, ON, Sept. 2000
“An Ethics-Based Case Review: Conflict of Interest in the Not-for-Profit Sector”
International Institute for Public Ethics, Ottawa, ON, Sept. 2000
“Organizational Ethics and Provincial Health Policy”
European Business Ethics Network, Cambridge, England, Sept. 2000
“Ethics Audits: What Have They Got to Do With Ethics? And Are they Really Audits?”
European Business Ethics Network, Cambridge, England, Sept. 2000
“Moral Constraint, Public Goods, and Humean Social Conventions”
Canadian Philosophical Association, Edmonton, AB, May 2000
“The Fallacy of Professional Autonomy”
Canadian Society for the Study of Practical Ethics, Edmonton, AB, May 2000
“Organizational Ethics, Business Ethics, and Health Care: Framing Policy at the Institutional Level.”
Poster Presentation (with C. Ells). Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis (CHEPA) Annual Conference: Values in Health Policy, Hamilton, ON, May 2000
“Business Ethics in Healthcare Settings: The Case of Resident Working Hours”
Sixth International Conference Promoting Business Ethics, Niagara Falls, NY, October 1999.
“Business Ethics in Healthcare Settings: The Case of Resident Working Hours”
11th Annual Canadian Bioethics Society Conference, Edmonton, AB, October 1999.
“Clinical Standards and the Structure of Professional Obligation,”
Canadian Philosophical Association, Sherbrooke, QC, May 1999.
“Clinical Standards and the Structure of Professional Obligation,” Canadian Society for the Study of Practical Ethics, Sherbrooke, QC, May 1999 (winner, Student Essay Prize).
“The Moral Force of Social Conventions”
Western Canadian Philosophy Association Meeting, Vancouver, BC,
November 1998.
“The Function and Moral Force of Clinical Standards of Practice”
10th Annual Canadian Bioethics Society Conference, Toronto, ON, October 1998.
“Reflections on Bioethics Education in Canada” (panel discussion)
10th Annual Canadian Bioethics Society Conference, Toronto, ON, October 1998.
“Interdisciplinary Health Care as a Barrier to the Abuse of Patient Rights”
Inside the Kaleidoscope: Interpreting Interdisciplinarity, Green College, University of British Columbia. February 1998.
“Ethical Problem Solving: Coercive Treatment in an Eating Disorders Clinic”
9th Annual Canadian Bioethics Society Conference, Halifax, N.S., October 1997.
“Moral Theory in a Darwinian World”
Evolutionary Perspectives in the Social Sciences and Humanities, University of British Columbia, October 1997.
“Trust in the Market Place: An Exploratory Computer Simulation”
Trust and Business: Barriers and Bridges, DePaul University, Chicago, Illinois, February 1997.
“A Darwinian Perspective on Ethics”
Western Canada Philosophical Association Conference. Lethbridge, Alberta, November 1996.
“Evolutionary Moral Functionalism & Health Care Ethics”
8th Annual Conference, Canadian Bioethics Society, Montréal, Québec. October 1996.
“Applied Ethics Resources on the Internet”
(Invited as part of panel discussion "Ethics Resources on the Internet," held at 94th Annual Meeting of the American Philosophical Association, Central Division.) Chicago, Illinois, April 1996.
“Inter-subjective Risk-assessment in the Clinical Setting”
7th Annual Canadian Bioethics Conference, Vancouver, B.C., November 1995.
Other Academic Presentations
Other Academic Presentations, cont’d / “Proxy Contractarianism: Parsing the Assumption of Mutual Disinterest”
Philosophy Department Colloquium, Dalhousie Univ., November 23, 2001.
“Social Conventions, Shared Mental Models, and (Ir)rational Decisions”
Philosophy Department Colloquium, Dalhousie Univ., March 30, 2001
“Moral Constraint, Public Goods, and Humean Social Conventions”
Philosophy Department Colloquium, Dalhousie Univ., May 5, 2000
“The Moral Force of Social Conventions”
Philosophy Department Grad Student Colloquium, University of British Columbia, October 22, 1998.
“The Function and Moral Force of Clinical Standards of Practice”
Centre for Applied Ethics Colloquium Series, University of British Columbia, October 6, 1998.
“The Function and Force of Moral Conventions”
Thesis Proposal Presentation
Philosophy Department, University of British Columbia, April 14, 1998.
“Coercive Treatment of Eating Disorders”
Centre for Applied Ethics Colloquium Series, University of British Columbia, February 24, 1998.
“Computer Simulations in Business Ethics”
Centre for Applied Ethics Colloquium Series, University of British Columbia, February 4, 1997.
“How Evolutionary Theory Can Help Us Do Better Ethics”
Evolutionary Psychology Lab, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, B.C., November 8, 1996.
“How Evolutionary Theory Can Help Us Do Better Ethics”
Philosophy Department Grad Student Colloquium, University of British Columbia, October 10, 1996.
“Values in Cyberspace: The Ethics of Web-Site Engineering” (with Christopher Moreno)
Centre for Applied Ethics Colloquium Series, University of British Columbia, January 30, 1996.
“The Inter-Subjective Nature of Risk Assessment: Ethical Implications for Professionals”
Green College "Science and Society" Speakers Series, University of British Columbia, January 15, 1996.
Policy Development / “Refusal of CPR in Residential Care Facilities,” Nova Scotia Department of Health, January-May, 2001.
Student Participant, Bioethics Committee DNR Task Force (set up to draft new DNR policy) St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, B.C., 1997.
Ethics
Web-Sites Developed & Maintained / U.B.C. Centre for Applied Ethics Web-Site
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- Arguably top comprehensive applied ethics web site in the world;
EthicsWeb.ca (
Umbrella site for a cluster of topic-specific applied ethics websites.
EnvironmentalEthics.ca
Clinical Experience / 1998-9:
1998:
1997-8: / Ethicist, Vancouver Cancer Centre Ethics Steering Committee
Observer, B.C. Children's Hospital Oncology Program, Vancouver, B.C. (Contact: Dori van Stolk, Clinical Instructor)
Observer, Ethics Committee, B.C. Children's Hospital, Vancouver, B.C. (Contact: Dr. Michael Burgess, Ethicist)
Clinical Experience, cont’d / 1997-8:
1997:
1996-7:
1997:
1995: / Observer, Eating Disorders Clinic, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, B.C. (Contact: Vicki Smye, Clinical Director)
Student Participant, Bioethics Committee DNR Task Force, St. Paul’s Hospital, Vancouver, B.C. (Contact: Dr. David Kuhl, M.D., Chair)
Observer, Hereditary Cancer Task Force, B.C. Cancer Agency, Vancouver, B.C. (Contact: Dr. Michael Burgess, Ethicist)
Observer, Medical Genetics patient review, B.C. Children's Hospital, Vancouver, B.C. (Contact: Dr. Michael Burgess, Ethicist)
Observer, Ethics Committee, Vancouver General Hospital, Vancouver, B.C. (Contact: Dr. Michael McDonald, Ethicist)
Government Experience / 1999-2001 / Coordinator, ‘Health Law, Policy, and Ethics Collaboration’ (Dalhousie Bioethics, Dalhousie Health Law, and Nova Scotia Department of Health)
Selected Activities:
- Member, Department of Health’s Senior Leadership Committee;
- Author, Report on Clinical Error (including 89 pages of Key Points, 64 pages of Annotated Bibliography, a 24-page literature search, and 98 overheads);
- Member, ad hoc Capital Allocation Committee;
- Observer, Formulary Management Committee;
- Lead Author, “Policy on Refusal of CPR in Residential Care Facilities;”
- Created resource binder: Ethical Aspects of Health Care Resource Allocation;
- Ethics Training Seminar for Adult Protective Services;
- Reviewed & gave extensive comments on new draft documents on “Governance Best Practice Guide for Boards of Directors,” and “Accountability In Our Health Care System;”
- Advisor, District Health Authorities By-Laws Committee.
In-Service Presentations / “Ethical Decision Making: Dealing With Treatment Resistance”
B.C. Children’s Hospital Eating Disorders Programme, Vancouver, B.C., June 4, 1998.
“Ethical Decision Making & Case Review”
B.C. Children's Hospital Oncology Program, Vancouver, B.C., November 6 & 12, 1997.
“Ethical Decision Making Around Coercive Treatment”
Eating Disorders Clinic's Community Outreach Programme, St. Paul's Hospital, Vancouver, B.C., October 2, 1997.
Invited Lectures / “Ethical Issues in Health Resource Allocation”
Nova Scotia Association of Health Organizations’ Trustees, Badeck, NS, June 14, 2001
“Tough Choices: Resource Allocation in Health Care,”
Armview Estates / Fairview Villa Annual Quality Review, Halifax, NS, May 18, 2001
“The Role of Theory in Practical Bioethics”
QEII Hospital Clinical Ethics Committee, Halifax, NS, May 14, 2001
“Accountability in the Biotechnology Sector”
Canadian Democracy and Corporate Accountability Commission, Halifax, NS, April 17, 2001
“Ethics in Health Care Resource Allocation”
Capital District Health Authority, Dartmouth, NS, February 20, 2001
“Professional Ethics and The Public Role of Professional Foresters”
Seminar Series, School for Resource and Environmental Studies, Dalhousie University, February 1, 2001
“Ethical Issues in Resource Allocation – Micro, Meso, Macro”
Nova Scotia Association of Health Organizations Board of Directors, January 22, 2001
“Ethics and Biotechnology”
Capacity Building in Biotechnology Course, Canadian Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade. Halifax, NS, August 15, 2000.
Ethics Discussion Series, Nova Scotia Department of Health
- “Ethical Issues in the Public Service,” June 22, 2000
- “Tough Choices: Resource Allocation in Health Care,” June 15, 2000
- “Organizational Ethics, ”June 8, 2000
- “Health Care Ethics: Principles, Professions & Institutions,” June 1, 2000
Invited Lectures, cont’d
/ “Bioethics & New Health Care Technologies: Promises and Challenges;” panel Discussion, “Ethics and Technology: What Lies Ahead?” Mount Saint Vincent University, February 22, 2000.Cancer Centre for the Southern Interior, BC Cancer Agency, June 17, 1999
- “Health Care Ethics: Principles, Professions & Institutions”
- “Ethics Committees: Education, Policy, & Cases”
- “Case Review for Ethics Committees”
BC Cancer Agency’s Vancouver Cancer Centre, June 21 and 25, 1999
“Professional & Business Ethics for Computer Consultants”
Independent Computer Consultants Association of B.C., May 27, 1998
“Business Ethics”
Team Tube, Inc. Sales Conference, Burnaby, B.C., Dec. 2, 1997.
“Resource Management and Professional Ethics”
Silviculture Institute of British Columbia, Prince George, B.C., January 30, 1997.
“Ethics & Information Technology”
Burnaby Interagency Council, Burnaby, B.C., November 21, 1996.
“Business Ethics and Personal Integrity”
Staff Retreat of Macdonald, Shymko & Co., Vancouver, B.C., Sept. 27, 1996.
Guest Lectures for Non-Philosophy Courses / “Genetic Testing in the Workplace: Ethical Considerations”
Graduate Health Economics, School of Health Services Administration, Dalhousie University, February 13, 2001
“The Professional Between the Lab Coat and the Cash Register”
(with Dr. Wayne Norman)
Pharmacy 300, University of British Columbia, (November 17/18, 1998)
“Professional Ethics & Occupational Hygiene”
OCCH 504 (Occupational Hygiene Program) University of British Columbia (October 25, 1996; November 12, 1997; September 25, 1998)
“Ethics, Engineering Ethics, and the Environment”
Civil Engineering 200, University of British Columbia (March 4, 1996; March 24, 1997; March 6, 1998)
“The Inter-Subjectivity of Risk Assessment: Ethical Implications for Professionals”
HCEP 510 (Occupational Hygiene Program) University of British Columbia, November 18, 1996.
Media Appearances / “Ethical Aspects of Drug Funding Decisions”
CBC Radio (Halifax), August 28, 2001.
“Physician Billing Fraud”
CBC-TV (Newfoundland), September 26, 2000.
“Role of the College of Physicians and Surgeons” (the case of Dr. Hunter Blair, suspended for being romantically involved with a former patient)
First Edition, CBC-TV (Halifax), June 15, 2000.
Professional Service / 2002-2004
2001-present
Fall 2001:
2001-2002:
2001:
1999-2001: / Vice-President, Canadian Society for the Study of Practical Ethics
Associate Editor, Radar: Technology & Ethics Review
[nascent electronic journal; first issue in production]
Book manuscript referee for Blackwell Publishers
Chair, Education Committee, Canadian Society for the Study of Practical Ethics
Conference Co-Chair, Canadian Society for the Study of Practical Ethics
Canadian Bioethics Society
Executive Committee (Member-at-Large for Atlantic Canada)
Nominating Committee
Ad Hoc Committee on Working Conditions for Bioethicists
1998-9:1998-9:
1997:
1997-8:
1991-2:
1991-2: / Canadian Bioethics Society
- Executive Committee (Student Member-at-Large)
Adjudication Committee, Ethics in Action Awards
Steering Committee, U.B.C. Centre for Applied Ethics
Student Representative, Philosophy Department, Trent University
Student Representative, Political Studies Department, Trent University
Organisational Memberships / Canadian Philosophical Association
American Philosophical Association
Canadian Bioethics Society
Canadian Society for the Study of Practical Ethics (Vice-President)
Society for Business Ethics
International Society for Environmental Ethics (ISEE)
Revised: June, 2002