Ph.D., University of St. Michael's College, Toronto (Theology) (1970)
Doctorat ès Sciences Religieuses, Université des Sciences
Humaines de Strasbourg,
France (Faculté de Théologie Protestante) (1975)
Certificate of Proficiency in French, McGill University (1987)
Employment
Director of Ethics, World Medical Association
(since 2003)
Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa (since
1993)
Assistant Professor (1971-76), Associate Professor (1976-85), Professor
(1985-86), Department of Religious Studies, Memorial University
of Newfoundland (on leave 1984-86)
Faculty Lecturer (part-time), Faculty of Religious Studies, McGill
University, Montreal (1985-87)
Visiting Professor, Center for Bioethics, Clinical Research Institute
of Montreal (1985-86)
Principal Research Associate, Center for Bioethics, Clinical Research
Institute of Montreal (1986-91)
Research Associate Professor (Chercheur agrégé), Département
de Médecine, Université de Montréal (1987-91)
Lecturer (part-time), Department of Religion, Concordia University,
Montreal (1989-90)
Adjunct Professor, Department of Religion, Concordia University
(1991-92)
Director of Ethics, Canadian Medical Association (1991-2003)
Visiting Foreign Professor, Department of Medicine, University of
Cape Town, South Africa (January - June 1999)
Other Academic and Professional Positions and Activities
Oxford University, England - Recognized
Student, Philosophy of Religion (1970-71)
Research Associate, Norman Paterson School of International Affairs,
Carleton University, Ottawa (Fall 1977)
Research Associate, Christian Institute for the Study of Religion
and Society, Bangalore, India (March - June 1978)
Member of Executive, Canadian Society for the Study of Religion
(1973-76, 1985-88)
Treasurer, Canadian Theological Society (1982-85)
Member of Executive, Canadian Society for Medical Bioethics (1986-88)
Member, Advisory Committee, Canadian Bioethics Society (1988-91)
Member, Biomedical Ethics Committee, Royal College of Physicians
and Surgeons of Canada (1981-90); Observer (1991-2003)
Member of Advisory Committee of Applied Ethicists, Canadian Federation
for the Humanities (1988)
Member of Publications Committee, Canadian Federation for the Humanities
(1985-91)
Member of Publications Committee, Canadian Corporation for Studies
in Religion (1986-95)
Member of Board of Directors, Canadian Corporation for Studies in
Religion (1992-93); Vice-President (1993-94); President (1994-97),
Honourary Member of Board of Directors (since 1999)
Advisor, Medical Ethics Committee, World Medical Association (1995-98)
Member, Board of Directors, Humanities and Social Sciences Federation
of Canada (2000-01)
Member, Advisory Board, Ian Anderson Continuing Education Program
in End-of-Live Care, Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto
(2000-03)
Member, Advisory Committee, Saint Paul University Centre,
Ottawa (2001-03)
Member, Advisory Council, Carleton University Centre on Values and
Ethics, Ottawa (since 2002)
Member, Ethics Review Committee, Canadian Council for International
Cooperation (2002-03)
Member, UNESCO Advisory Expert Commission for the Teaching of Ethics
(since 2004)
Assessor of book manuscripts for Princeton University Press and
Wilfrid Laurier University Press
Referee of articles submitted to Canadian Medical Association Journal,
Annals of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada,
Médecine/Sciences, Annals of Internal Medicine, The Journal
of Palliative Care, Humane Medicine, Journal of Business Ethics,
Journal of Developing Areas, The Heythrop Journal, Studies in Religion/Sciences
Religieuses, Toronto Journal of Theology and Clinical Researcher
Member of the adjudication committee for the Human Context of Science
and Technology Strategic Grants Program of the Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of Canada (1986-87)
Referee of research grant applications for the Social Sciences and
Humanities Research Council of Canada, Medical Research Council
of Canada and Fonds pour la Formation de Chercheurs et l'Aide à
la Recherche
External reader of doctoral dissertations for St. Paul University,
Ottawa, the Toronto School of Theology, Concordia University, Montreal,
and the University of New Brunswick, and for master's theses at
Concordia University and l'Université de Sherbrooke
External assessor of applications for promotion to full professor
at St. Paul University, Ottawa, and the University of St. Jerome's
College, Waterloo; to associate professor at McMaster University,
University of Alberta and University of Toronto
President, Memorial University of Newfoundland Faculty Association
(1979-80)
Professional Honours
Province of Ontario Graduate Fellowship
(1965-66)
Canada Council Doctoral Fellowships (1967-70)
Canada Council Research Grant (1974-75) (Martin Heidegger's Philosophy
of Religion)
Humanities Research Council of Canada Aid to Publication Grant (1977)
(Martin Heidegger's Philosophy of Religion)
Canada Council Planning Grant (1977) (Canadian Foreign Aid Policy:
An Ethical Analysis)
Canada Council Research Grant (1978) (A Cross-Cultural Approach
to Development Ethics)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (general)
Research Grant (1980) (Theology and Biomedical Ethics in Canada)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, (general)
Research Grant (1982) (The Social Concerns of the Canadian Churches)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Strategic
- Human Context of Science and Technology) Research Grant (1984-85)
(Biomedical Ethics in Canada: An Inventory of Present Teaching and
Research and Recommendations for the Future)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (Strategic
- Human Context of Science and Technology) Pilot Grant (1988) (Research
Methodology in Bioethics: Models, Standards and Criteria), co-investigator
with David J. Roy
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Research
Grant (1988-90) (Justice in Health Care: The Rights and Responsibilities
of Individual Physicians)
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada Strategic
Grant (1998-2001) (Justice and the Practice of International Businesses
in Developing Areas), collaborator with Frederick Bird and co-investigators
CIDA Professional Leadership Award (1999) (Bioethics, Human Rights
and Socioeconomic Development: A Canada-South Africa Partnership)
Theses
Kierkegaard the Prophet (L.E. Lynch, supervisor),
University of Toronto (1966)
The Religious Import of the Concept of Death in Heidegger (Leslie
Dewart, supervisor), University of St. Michael's College (1970)
The Religious Significance of Heidegger's Philosophy (Gérald
Siegwalt, supervisor), Université des Sciences Humaines de
Strasbourg (1975)
Books
Martin Heidegger's Philosophy of Religion
(author), Waterloo: Canadian Corporation for Studies in Religion/Wilfrid
Laurier University Press, 1977 (second printing 1979, third printing
1983)
Canadian Churches and Social Justice (editor), Toronto: Anglican
Book Centre and James Lorimer & Co., 1984
Biomedical Ethics in Canada (author), Lewiston, NY & Queenston,
ON: The Edwin Mellen Press, 1986 (second printing 1988)
Bioéthique régionale: une introduction (author), Collection
Ethique actuelle, Montréal et Chicoutimi: Editions Sapientia,
1992
Canadian Physicians and Euthanasia (co-author, with Frederick Lowy
and Douglas A. Sawyer), Ottawa: Canadian Medical Association, 1993
(second printing 1994)
Bioethics in Canada (co-author, with David J. Roy and Bernard M.
Dickens), Scarborough, ON: Prentice-Hall, 1994 (second printing
1995). French edition: La Bioéthique: ses fondements et ses
controverses (co-author, with David J. Roy, Bernard M. Dickens and
Jean-Louis Baudouin), Montréal: Éditions du Renouveau
Pédagogique, 1995
Christian Perspectives on Bioethics (author), Ottawa: Novalis, 1997
Course Manuals
Bioethics: Human Life Issues (co-author,
with David J. Roy), 500 page text prepared for a University of Sudbury
distance course (1990)
Ethics, a Continuing Professional Development course for South African
physicians prepared for the South African Medical Association’s
Foundation for Professional Development (1999)
Book Chapters
"Religion in Newfoundland: The Churches
and Social Ethics,” Religion and Culture in Canada/Religion
et Culture au Canada, ed. by Peter Slater, Canadian Corporation
for Studies in Religion/Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 1977,
95-116
"Les méthodologies de recherche en bioéthique,”
Bioéthique: Méthodes et fondements, ed. par M.-H.
Parizeau, Montréal: L'Association canadienne-française
pour l'avancement des sciences, 1989, 241-243
"Postgraduate Medical Ethics Education: The Profession's Response”
(co-author, with G.L. Crelinsten and T.D. Kinsella), Medical Ethics
for Postgraduate Medical Students, London, ON: Westminster Institute
for Ethics and Human Values, 1990, 61-64
"Ethical Issues in Renal Transplantation” (co-author,
with John Dossetor, MD), Medicine, Ethics and Law - Canadian and
Polish Perspectives, ed. by T. Dybowski, D.J. Roy, M. Safjan, and
J.-L. Baudouin, Montreal: Center for Bioethics, Clinical Research
Institute of Montreal, 1991, 329-340
"Bioethics in Canada: 1989-1991,” Bioethics Yearbook:
Regional Developments 1989-1991, ed. by B.A. Lustig et al., Dordrecht/Boston/London:
Kluwer, 1992, 51-81
"Ethics in Cross-Cultural Health,” Health and Culture:
Exploring the Relationships, Vol. 1: Policy, Practices, and Education,
ed. by R. Masi, K. McLeod and L. Mensah, Oakville, ON: Mosaic Press,
1993, 255-270
"Should we change the weather?” Proceedings of The Weather
and Health Workshop, ed. by Abdel R. Maarouf, Ottawa: Minister of
Supply and Services Canada, 1993, 75-81
"Bioethics in Canada: 1991-1993,” Bioethics Yearbook:
Regional Developments 1991-1993, ed. by B.A. Lustig, Dordrecht/Boston/London:
Kluwer, 1995, 89-112
"History of Medical Ethics: The Americas - Canada,” (co-author,
with David J. Roy), Encyclopedia of Bioethics, revised edition,
New York: Simon & Schuster Macmillan, 1995, vol. 3, 1632-1639
"Ethics and Regional Health Boards” (co-author, with Michael
Yeo and Wayne Hooper), The Ethics of the New Economy: Restructuring
and Beyond, ed. by Leo Groarke, Waterloo, ON: Wilfrid Laurier University
Press, 1998, 125-141
“The Ethics of Decentralizing Health Care Priority Setting
in Canada” (co-author, with Michael Yeo), The Global Challenge
of Health Care Rationing, ed. by Angela Coulter and Chris Ham, Buckingham,
UK and Philadelphia, USA: Open University Press, 2000, 123-132
Major Articles
"Heidegger and the Theologians,”
The Heythrop Journal XII (1971), 258-280
"Heidegger, Death and God,” Studies in Religion/Sciences
Religieuses I (1971-1972), 298-320
"American Philosophy of Religion: Whitehead and Hartshorne,”
Eglise et Théologie V (1974), 395-418
"Hinduism and Buddhism on Village Development: A Comparison
of the Sarvodaya Movements of India and Sri Lanka,” Revue de
l'Université Sainte-Anne (1983), 56-69
"Religion, Ethics and Development: An Analysis of the Sarvodaya
Shramadana Movement of Sri Lanka,” Canadian Journal of Development
Studies V (1984), 157-167
"`Euthanasia, Aiding Suicide and Cessation of Treatment’:
A Critique,” Annals of the Royal College of Physicians and
Surgeons of Canada 17 (1984), 589-591
"Human Organ Sales,” Annals of the Royal College of Physicians
and Surgeons of Canada 18 (1985), 401-404
"Theology and Biomedical Ethics in Canada,” Studies in
Religion/Sciences Religieuses 14 (1985), 465-473
"Canada: Conflict as well as Consensus” (co-authored with
David J. Roy), The Hastings Center Report 17/3 (June 1987), Special
Supplement - Biomedical Ethics: A Multicultural View, 32-34
"Ethical Responsibilities of Physicians in the Allocation of
Health Care Resources” (co-author, with Frédéric
Grunberg, MD), Annals of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons
of Canada 21 (1988), 311-315
"Commissions and Biomedical Ethics: The Canadian Experience,”
The Journal of Medicine and Philosophy 14 (1989), 425-444
"Ethical Responsibilities of Physicians in Their Dealings with
Pharmaceutical Companies” (co-author, with Frédéric
Grunberg, MD), Annals of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons
of Canada 23 (1990), 45-48
"Physicians, Ethics and the Allocation of Health Care Resources”
(co-author, with Eric B. Beresford), Annals of the Royal College
of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada 24 (1991), 305-309; reprinted
in Françoise Baylis, Jocelyn Downie, Benjamin Freedman, et
al., eds., Health Care Ethics in Canada, Toronto: Harcourt Brace
Canada, 1995, 121-129
"Canadian physicians and euthanasia: 1. An approach to the
issues” (co-author, with Frederick Lowy, MD and Douglas M.
Sawyer, MD), Canadian Medical Association Journal 148 (1993), 1293-1297
"Canadian physicians and euthanasia: 2. Definitions and distinctions”
(co-author, with Frederick Lowy, MD and Douglas M. Sawyer, MD),
Canadian Medical Association Journal 148 (1993), 1463-1466
"Canadian physicians and euthanasia: 3. Arguments and beliefs”
(co-author, with Frederick Lowy, MD and Douglas M. Sawyer, MD),
Canadian Medical Association Journal 148 (1993), 1699-1702
"Canadian physicians and euthanasia: 4. Lessons from experience”
(co-author, with Frederick Lowy, MD and Douglas M. Sawyer, MD),
Canadian Medical Association Journal 148 (1993), 1895-1899
"Canadian physicians and euthanasia: 5. Policy options”
(co-author, with Frederick Lowy, MD and Douglas M. Sawyer, MD),
Canadian Medical Association Journal 148 (1993), 2129-2133
“Core and comprehensive health care services: III. Ethical
issues” (co-author, with Douglas M. Sawyer, MD), Canadian Medical
Association Journal 152 (1995), 1409-1411
"Redefining Comprehensiveness in the Deficit Era” (co-author,
with Douglas M. Sawyer, MD), Humane Health Care International 12
(1996), 63-67
"Bioethics for clinicians: 1. Consent” (co-author, with
Edward Etchells, Gilbert Sharpe, Phil Walsh and Peter A. Singer),
Canadian Medical Association Journal 155 (1996), 177-180; reprinted
in Peter A. Singer, ed., Bioethics at the bedside: A clinician’s
guide, Ottawa: Canadian Medical Association, 1999: 1-7
"Ethics for Regional Boards” (co-author, with Michael
Yeo and Wayne Hooper), Leadership in Health Services 5/4 (July/August
1996), 22-26
“Incorporating Ethics in Priority Setting: A Case Study of
a Regional Health Board in Canada” (co-author, with Michael
Yeo and Wayne Hooper), Health Care Analysis 7 (1999), 177-194
“The Internet, Virtual Communities and Threats to Confidentiality”
(co-author, with Gavin Damster), South Africa Medical Journal 89
(1999), 1175-1178
“Ethics and human rights in South African medicine,” Canadian
Medical Association Journal 162 (2000), 1167-1170
“Consensus Conference on vCJD Screening of Blood Donors,”
(co-author, with Jeffrey McCullough et al.), Transfusion 44 (2004),
675-683
“The Promise and Limits of International Bioethics: Lessons
from the Recent Revision of the Declaration of Helsinki,” International
Journal of Bioethics 15 (2004), 31-42
“Canadian Medical Association’s Ethics Activities,”
HEC Forum 16 (2004), 138-151
Shorter Articles
"Pope John Paul II, Workers Rights,
and the Church in Newfoundland,” The Monitor (St. John's, Nfld.),
April 1982
"Ten Days for World Development,” The Monitor, January
1983
"The Sperm Report: A Reaction,” Catholic New Times (Toronto),
March 13, 1983
"When is Dying Legal in Canada and When Isn't It?” Catholic
New Times, February 26, 1984
"Clinical Ethics in Canada,” Synapse II/2 (June 1986),
9-10
"Health Law and Ethics,” Synapse II/3 (September 1986),
9-12
"Center for Bioethics brings different viewpoints together,”
(co-author, with Electa Baril and David J. Roy) Dimensions in Health
Service 63/7 (October 1986), 30-31, 48, and Hospital Trustee 10/6
(November-December 1986), 12-14
"Ethics of Research,” Synapse II/4 (December 1986), 9-12
"When Suffering is Unbearable: Physicians, Assisted Suicide
and Euthanasia,” The Journal of Palliative Care 7 (1991), 47-49
"What Has Church Social Justice Work Achieved Since 1970?,”
Symposium: Canadian Churches and Social Justice: Priorities for
the 1990s, Compass 9/5 (Nov.-Dec. 1991), 8-10
"CMA guidelines on MD-drug industry relations part of an international
trend,” Canadian Medical Association Journal 146 (1992), 386-388
"General Council to consider amendments to CMA policy on MDs'
relationships with drug industry,” Canadian Medical Association
Journal 149 (1993), 335-337
"CMA sponsors international workshop on medical ethics and
human rights,” Canadian Medical Association Journal 149 (1993),
1707f.
"CMA issues revised guidelines on physicians' relationship
with pharmaceutical industry,” Canadian Medical Association
Journal 150 (1994), 265-266
"'Physician-Assisted Death': How the Canadian Medical Association's
Committee on Ethics Developed Its Draft Policy,” Humane Medicine
10 (1994), 172-176
"World Medical Association Grapples with Health Care Resource
Allocation,” Humane Medicine 10 (1994), 224-225
"Revision of the Code of Ethics: a backgrounder for the CMA
annual meeting,” Canadian Medical Association Journal 151 (1994),
209f.
"How is the new statement on resuscitative interventions different
from the original?” Canadian Medical Association Journal 151
(1994), 1182f.
"World Medical Association’s 46th General Assembly,”
Humane Medicine 11 (1995), 34f.
"Religious Perspectives on Bioethics” (Editorial), Humane
Medicine 11 (1995), 57
"CMA's CEO re-elected Chair of World Medical Association's
Ethics Committee,” Canadian Medical Association Journal 153
(1995), 345-346
"Bioethics Centres and Meetings,” International Journal
of Bioethics 6/3 (1995), "Canada Supplement", 249
"Consensus finally achieved on resuscitative interventions,”
Canadian Medical Association Journal 153 (1995), 1641f.
"Physicians and Euthanasia” (Editorial), Humane Health
Care International 12 (1996), 55-56
"After 4 years' work, revised Code of Ethics goes to General
Council for decision” (co-author with Douglas A. Sawyer, M.D.),
Canadian Medical Association Journal 155 (1996), 314f.
"CMA's core-services framework featured at international conference,”
Canadian Medical Association Journal 156 (1997), 1192f.
"Ethical issues a major focus as Canada hosts intensive and
critical care meeting,” Canadian Medical Association Journal
157 (1997), 565f.
"The New Code of Ethics of the Canadian Medical Association,”
International Journal of Bioethics 8/1-2 (1997), "Canadian
Supplement", 119-122
"Bibliography of Books and Articles Published in 1996 in Canada,”
International Journal of Bioethics 8/1-2 (1997), "Canadian
Supplement", 135-137
"Court/Tribunal Decisions,” International Journal of Bioethics
8/1-2 (1997), "Canadian Supplement", 139-143
"In Memoriam Sydney Segal," Annals RCPSC 30 (1997), 430
“Poverty leading cause of cardiovascular disease in Canada,”
CMAJ 167 (2002), 389
“Waiting Lists: Management, Legalities and Ethics,” (co-author
with D.F. Pitt, M.D., T.W. Noseworthy, M.D. and J. Guilbert, M.D.),
Canadian Journal of Surgery 46 (2003), 173-6
Editorships
Founding editor of SYNAPSE: A Canadian News
Service for Biomedical Ethics, 1985-1990
Founding editor of Canadian Bioethics Report, 1991-2003
Associate editor of Humane Medicine, 1992-1995
Contributing editor of Medical Ethics: Policies, Protocols, Guidelines
& Programs, ed. by John F. Monagle and David C. Thomasma, Gaithersburg,
MA: Aspen Publishers, 1994-2003
Guest editor of ARC XIV/2 (Spring 1987), "Religion and Ethics”(published
by the McGill University Faculty of Religious Studies)
Book Reviews
James A. Demske, Being, Man and Death: A
Key to Heidegger, The Heythrop Journal XIII (1972), 78-80
Cristos Yannaras, De l'absence et de l'inconnaissance de Dieu d'après
les écrits aréopagites et Martin Heidegger, The Heythrop
Journal XIII (1972), 183-185
Martin Heidegger, The End of Philosophy, The Heythrop Journal XVII
(1976), 199f.
Peyton V. Lyon and Tareq Y. Ismael, eds., Canada and the Third World,
The New Internationalist (September, 1977), 30
Martin Heidegger, Basic Writings, The Heythrop Journal XXI (1980),
227f.
GATT-Fly, Power to Choose: Canada's Energy Options, Studies in Religion/Sciences
Religieuses 11 (1982), 347f.
Graham Scott, ed., More than Survival: Viewpoints toward a Theology
of Nation, Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 11 (1982), 471f.
Baidya Nath Varma, The Sociology and Politics of Development: A
Theoretical Study, Religious Studies Review 9/1 (January, 1983),
60
Denis Goulet, Survival with Integrity: Sarvodaya at the Crossroads,
Journal of Asian Studies XLII (1982-1983), 699f.
Benjamin G. Smillie, ed., Political Theology in the Canadian Context,
Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 12 (1983), 105f.
Ravi Batra, PROUT: The Alternative to Capitalism and Marxism, Religious
Studies Review 9/2 (1983), 157f.
Hans Wismeijer, Diversity in Harmony: A Study of the Leaders of
the Sarvodaya Shramadana Movement in Sri Lanka, Journal of Asian
Studies XLIII (1983-84), 194f.
Peter Slater and Donald Wiebe, eds., Traditions in Contact and Change:
Selected Proceedings of the XIVth Congress of the International
Association for the History of Religions, Studies in Religion/Sciences
Religieuses 12 (1983), 461f.
Theodore W. Schultz, Investing in People: The Economics of Population
Quality, Religious Studies Review 10/1 (1984), 59f.
Robert Matthews and Cranford Pratt, eds., Church and State: The
Christian Churches and Canadian Foreign Policy, Studies in Religion/Sciences
Religieuses 13 (1984), 116
John H. Bodley, Victims of Progress, The Journal of Developing Areas
18 (1984), 269f.
Mark Blitz, Heidegger's `Being and Time' and the Possibility of
Political Philosophy, The Heythrop Journal XXV (1984), 397
Law Reform Commission of Canada, Report on Euthanasia, Aiding Suicide
and Cessation of Treatment, Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses
13 (1984), 245f.
Martin Heidegger, The Basic Problems of Phenomenology, The Heythrop
Journal XXV (1984), 522f.
John E. Thomas, ed., Medical Ethics and Human Life, Studies in Religion/Sciences
Religieuses 13 (1984), 500f.
Gregory Baum and Duncan Cameron, Ethics and Economics: Canada's
Catholic Bishops on the Economic Crisis, Studies in Religion/Sciences
Religieuses 13 (1984), 505
Godfrey Gunatilleke, Neelan Tiruchelvam, and Radhika Coomaraswamy,
eds., EthicalDilemmas of Development in Asia, Canadian Asian Studies
Association Revue VII/2 (1985), 34f.
Ernest E. Best, Religion and Society in Transition: The Church and
Social Change in England, 1560-1850, Canadian Theological Society
Newsletter 5/1 (1985), 16f.
Ernst Tugendhat, Traditional and Analytical Philosophy: Lectures
on the Philosophy of Language, The Heythrop Journal XXVI (1985),
346-348
Neil Gilbert, Capitalism and the Welfare State: Dilemmas of Social
Benevolence, Religious Studies Review 11/2 (1985), 181
Terry Brown and Christopher Lind, eds., Justice as Mission: An Agenda
for the Church, Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 15 (1986),
123
Michael Czerny and Jamie Swift, Getting Started on Social Analysis
in Canada, Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses 15 (1986), 133
Remi De Roo, Cries of Victims -- Voice of God, Studies in Religion/Sciences
Religieuses 15 (1986), 409
William C. James, ed., AIDS in Religious Perspective, Studies in
Religion/Sciences Religieuses 17 (1988), 510
Mary Jo Leddy and Mary Ann Hinsdale, eds., Faith That Transforms:
Essays in Honor of Gregory Baum, Studies in Religion/Sciences Religieuses
18 (1989), 99
Helga Kuhse and Peter Singer, Should the Baby Live? The Problem
of Handicapped Infants, The Heythrop Journal XXX (1989), 92f.
Robert N. Wennberg, Life in the Balance: Exploring the Abortion
Controversy, The Heythrop Journal XXX (1989), 93f.
James Rachels, The End of Life: Euthanasia and Morality, The Heythrop
Journal XXX (1989), 337f.
Norman Daniels, Just Health Care, The Heythrop Journal XXX (1989),
483-485
Peter Byrne, ed., Justice, Rights and Resources, and Gordon Dunstan
and E. Shineborne, eds., Doctors' Dilemmas, The Heythrop Journal
XXXII (1991), 272-274
Anthony J. Blasi, Moral Conflict and Christian Religion, The Heythrop
Journal XXXII (1991), 278f.
Enrique Dussel, Ethics and Community, The Heythrop Journal XXXII
(1991), 444f.
Douglas J. Hall, Thinking the Faith: Christian Theology in a North
American Context, The Heythrop Journal, XXXII (1991), 561f.
Gerald L. Bruns, Heidegger's Estrangements: Language, Truth and
Poetry in the Later Writings, The Heythrop Journal, XXXII (1991),
592-594
Dietmar Mieth and Jacques Pohier, eds., Ethics in the Natural Sciences,
The Heythrop Journal, XXXII (1991), 597f.
Michael W. Cuneo, Catholics Against the Church: Anti-Abortion Protest
in Toronto, 1969-1985, The Heythrop Journal, XXXII (1992), 111f.
Teresa Iglesias, IVF and Justice: Moral, Social and Legal Issues
Related to Human `in vitro' Fertilisation, and Agenta Sutton, Prenatal
Diagnosis: Confronting the Ethical Issues, The Heythrop Journal,
XXXIII (1992), 472f.
Eric J. Cassel, The Nature of Suffering and the Goals of Medicine,
and Erich H. Loewy, Suffering and the Beneficent Community: Beyond
Libertarianism, Humane Medicine, 9 (1993), 166-169
H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr., Bioethics and Secular Humanism, The
Heythrop Journal, 34 (1993), 221f.
Gene Outka and John P. Reeder, Jr., eds., Prospects for a Common
Morality, and Joseph Runzo, ed., Ethics, Religion, and the Good
Society: New Directions in a Pluralistic World, The Heythrop Journal,
35 (1994), 349f.
Charles Guignon, ed., The Cambridge Companion to Heidegger, The
Heythrop Journal, 35 (1994), 354f.
Klaus R. Scherer, ed., Justice: Interdisciplinary Perspectives,
The Heythrop Journal, 35 (1994), 478f.
Steve Buckler, Dirty Hands: The Problem of Political Morality, The
Heythrop Journal, 36 (1995), 102f.
Charles E. Curran, The Church and Morality: An Ecumenical and Catholic
Approach, The Heythrop Journal, 36 (1995), 105f.
Margaret Pabst Battin, The Least Worst Death: Essays in Bioethics
on the End of Life, Death Studies 19 (1995), 596-602
Christopher Lind and Joe Mihevic, eds., Coalitions for Justice,
Studies in Religion/ Sciences Religieuses 24 (1995), 379-381
David Kinsley, Health, Healing, and Religion: A Cross-Cultural Perspective,
Studies in Religion/ Sciences Religieuses 25 (1996), 516
Hubert Doucet, Au pays de la bioéthique: l'éthique
biomédicale aux États-Unis, Canadian Medical Association
Journal 157 (1997), 789f.
L.W. Sumner and Joseph Boyle, eds., Philosophical Perspectives on
Bioethics, NCBHR Communiqué CNBRH 8/1 (1997), 24f.
David Morrison, What do Churches Really Believe? Dialogue: Christianity
in Canada. Toronto Journal of Theology 13 (1997), 337f.
Fred Groh, Due Respect: The Morality of the Welfare State, and Bob
Brecher, Getting What You Want? A Critique of Liberal Morality,
The Heythrop Journal, 40 (1999), 488-490
E. Clinton Gardner, Justice and Christian Ethics, and Duncan B.
Forrester, Christian Justice and Public Policy, The Heythrop Journal,
40 (1999), 490-492
Michael Cromartie, ed., A Preserving Grace: Protestants, Catholics,
and Natural Law, Leroy S. Rouner, ed., Is There a Human Nature?
and Sumner B. Twiss and Bruce Grelle, eds., Explorations in Global
Ethics: Comparative Religious Ethics & Interreligious Dialogue,
The Heythrop Journal, 40 (1999), 492-496
Celia Deane-Drummond, Theology and Biotechnology: Implications for
a New Science, The Heythrop Journal, 41 (2000)
Gilbert C. Meilaender, Body, Soul, and Bioethics, The Heythrop Journal,
41 (2000)
Hans Küng and Walter Jens with contributions by Dietrich Niethammer
and Albin Eser, A Dignified Dying: A Plea for Personal Responsibility,
and Robin Gill, ed., Euthanasia and the Churches, The Heythrop Journal,
41 (2000)
Souzy Dracopoulou, ed., Ethics and Values in Health Care Management,
The Heythrop Journal, 41 (2000)
Michael Parker, ed., Ethics and Community in the Health Care Professions,
The Heythrop Journal, 41 (2000)
Harold Coward and Pinit Ratanakul, eds., A Cross-Cultural Dialogue
on Health Care Ethics, Studies in Religion/ Sciences Religieuses,
29 (2000), 217-218
Audrey R. Chapman, Unprecedented Choices: Religious Ethics at the
Frontiers of Genetic Science, The Heythrop Journal, 42 (2001), 116-7
Peter Glasner and Harry Rothman, eds., Genetic Imaginations: Ethical,
Legal and Social Issues in Human Genome Research, The Heythrop Journal,
42 (2001), 126-7
Holmes Rolston, III, Genes, Genesis and God: Values and Their Origins
in Natural and Human History, and Stephen R.L. Clark, The Political
Animal: Biology, Ethics & Politics, The Heythrop Journal, 42
(2001), 361-3
James H. Burtness, Consequences: Morality, Ethics, and the Future,
The Heythrop Journal, 43 (2002), 128
Oliver F. Williams, ed., Global Codes of Conduct: An Idea Whose
Time Has Come, The Heythrop Journal, 43 (2002), 242
Kevin Wm. Wildes, Moral Acquaintances: Methodology in Bioethics,
The Heythrop Journal, 43 (2002), 243
Lawrence J. Hatab, Ethics and Finitude: Heideggerian Contributions
to Moral Philosophy, The Heythrop Journal, 44 (2003), 87-8
Kathleen Foley and Herbert Hendin, eds., The Case against Assisted
Suicide: For the Right to End-of-Life Care, The Journal of Palliative
Care, 19 (2003), 142
Jennifer Jackson, Truth, Trust and Medicine, The Heythrop Journal,
45 (2004)
Jeremy Sugarman and Daniel P. Sulmasy, O.F.M., eds., Methods in
Medical Ethics, The Heythrop Journal, 45 (2004)
H. Tristram Engelhardt, Jr. and Mark J. Cherry, eds., Allocating
Scarce Medical Resources: Roman Catholic Perspectives, The Heythrop
Journal, 45 (2004)
Maura A. Ryan, The Ethics and Economics of Assisted Reproduction:
The Cost of Longing, The Heythrop Journal, 45 (2004)
British Medical Association Ethics department, Medical Ethics Today:
The BMA’s handbook of ethics and law (2nd edition), World Medical
Journal, 50 (2004), 28
Phyllis D. Airhart, Marilyn J. Legge and Gary L. Redcliffe, eds.,
Doing Ethics in a Pluralistic World: Essays in Honour of Roger C.
Hutchinson, Studies in Religion/ Sciences Religieuses, forthcoming
Nancey Murphy, Brad J. Kallenberg, and Mark Thiessen Nation, eds.,
Virtues and Practices in the Christian Tradition: Christian Ethics
after MacIntyre, The Heythrop Journal, forthcoming
Donna Dickenson, Risk and Luck in Medical Ethics, The Heythrop Journal,
forthcoming
Bob Chodos and Jamie Swift, Faith and Freedom: The Life and Times
of Bill Ryan SJ, Studies in Religion/ Sciences Religieuses, forthcoming
Lisa Sowle Cahill, Bioethics and the Common Good, The Heythrop Journal,
forthcoming
Ruth Macklin, Double Standards in Medical Research in Developing
Countries, World Medical Journal, forthcoming
Unpublished Papers and Addresses
"Religious Studies as Practical,”
Canadian Society for the Study of Religion, Université Laval,
Québec, May 1976
"The Role of Ethical Motives in Canadian Foreign Aid Policy,”
Faculty Seminar of the Norman Paterson School of International Affairs,
Carleton University, Ottawa, December 1977
"Religion and Development in South Asia,” Henry Herbert
Glasmacher Lecture Series, St. Paul University, Ottawa, March 1979
"Religion and Development in India: Gandhi, Vinoba, and J.P.,”
Canadian Society for the Study of Religion, University of Saskatchewan,
Saskatoon, May 1979
"Theology and Biomedical Ethics in Canada,” Canadian Theological
Society, Université du Québec à Montréal,
May 1980
"Buddhism and Development in Sri Lanka: The Sarvodaya Shramadana
Movement,” XIVth International Congress of the International
Association for the History of Religions, Winnipeg, August 1980
"Religion and Academic Freedom,” Conference on Academic
Freedom, Memorial University of Newfoundland, St. John's, February
1982
"Religious Restrictions on Human Rights,” Canadian Society
for the Study of Religion, University of Ottawa, June 1982
"Ethical Issues in Energy Developments,” opening address,
"Religion, Ethics, and Energy Developments in Canada”workshop,
Vancouver, June 1983
"Religion, Ethics, and Energy Developments in Canada: A Progress
Report,” Canadian Theological Society, Guelph, May 1984
"Ethics in Canada,” Westminster Institute of Ethics and
Human Values, London, Ontario, April 1985
"Biomedical Ethics in Canadian Religious Studies,” Canadian
Society for the Study of Religion, Université de Montréal,
June 1985
"Biomedical Ethics in Canada,” The Hastings Center, Hastings-on-Hudson,
New York, June 1985
"Ethical Issues in Public Health,” Manitoba Public Health
Association, Winnipeg, December 1985
"Ethics and Clinical Decision Making,” The Royal College
of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada Annual Meeting, Toronto, September
1986
"The Teaching of Bioethics in Primary and Secondary Schools,”
National Film Board Bioethics Forum, Montreal, November 1986
"La bioéthique en question,” Société
de Philosophie de Montréal, November 1986
"Ethical Obligations of the Physician,” Symposium on Medicine,
Ethics and the Law, Montreal, February 1987
"A Cross-Cultural View of Maintaining Cultural Values: Within
the Religious Structure of Canada,” Society for Intercultural
Education, Training and Research, Montreal, May 1987
"Human Organ Transplantation: A Challenge to Theological Ethics,”
Canadian Theological Society, McMaster University, Hamilton, June
1987
"AIDS: An Ecumenical Challenge,” Canadian Theological
Society, University of Windsor, June 1988
"Public Enquiries and Bioethics in Canada,” Lonergan University
College, Concordia University, Montreal, February 1989
"Ethical Issues in Multicultural Health Care,” Conferences
on Multicultural Health in Vancouver, February 1989 and Toronto,
March 1989
"Ethical Issues in Caring for the Elderly,” Conference
on Drugs and the Elderly, Toronto, April 1989
"Peer Review in Practical Ethics,” The Canadian Society
for the Study of Practical Ethics, Université Laval, May
1989
"Allocation of Health Care Resources: The Role of Individual
Physicians,” London '89: The Second International Conference
on Health Law and Ethics, London, England, July 1989
"Commerce of Organs: Opposition from the Canadian Churches,”
Conference on Ethics, Justice and Commerce in Transplantation: A
Global View, Ottawa, August 1989
"Research Methods in Bioethics,” Canadian Bioethics Society
Annual Meeting, Calgary, AB, November 1989
"Theology, Social Justice and Scarce Health Resources,”
Canadian Theological Society, University of Victoria, BC, May 1990
"La Bioéthique: Théorie et Pratique,” Université
du Québec à Chicoutimi, September 1990
"Report on Legal and Ethical Issues,” Consensus Conference
on Research Priorities: Drug Utilization Related Problems in Elderly
Canadians, Ottawa, November 1990
"Looking Back: Two Decades of the Canadian Churches' Social
Justice Work,” Conference on Canadian Churches and Social Justice
-- Priorities for the 1990s, Toronto, April 1991
"Teaching Ethics in a Multicultural Society,” Canadian
Society for the Study of Religion, Queen's University, Kingston,
ON, May 1991
"The Contribution of Religious Organization to the Debate on
Genetics,” II International Conference on Bioethics, Milazzo,
Italy, July 1991
"The Euthanasia Question with Emphasis on the Caregiver and
Society,” Fourth Annual Dealing with Death Conference, Victoria,
BC, April 1992
"The Ethics of Rationing Health Care” and "The Role
of Ethics Committees in the Allocation of Health Care Resources,”
Struggle to Decide: Ethical Dilemmas in Health Care Conference,
Sydney, NS, September 1992
"Behavioral-Ethical Conduct in Practice and 'Business',”
World Medical Assembly, Marbella, Spain, September 1992
"Lignes directrices de l'Association Médicale Canadienne
sur les relations entre les médecins et l'industrie pharmaceutique,”
Conférence portant sur les médecins et l'industrie
pharmaceutique, Québec, novembre 1992
"CMA Guidelines on Physicians and the Pharmaceutical Industry,”
Conference on The Evolving Relationship between Physicians, Residents
and the Pharmaceutical Industry, St. Mary's Hospital, Montreal,
February 1993"
“Accountability in Health Care: The Individual Physician and
the Medical Profession” (co-author, with Léo-Paul Landry
MD, Claudia Sanmartin and William B. Tholl), 6th Annual Health Policy
Conference on "The Buck Stops Where? Accountabilities in Health
and Health Care,” Centre for Health Economics and Policy Analysis,
McMaster University, Hamilton, ON, May 20, 1993, and Joint Session
of the Canadian Society for the Study of Practical Ethics and the
Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Society on "Canadian Health
Care in the Global Community: Social Justice and Economic Pressures,”
Carleton University, Ottawa, June 1993
"Is There a Canadian Ecumenical Consensus on the New Reproductive
Technologies?” (co-author, with Brenda Appleby), Canadian Theological
Society, Carleton University, Ottawa, June 1993
"Allocation of Health Care Resources: A Matter of Justice,”
Laurentian University, Sudbury, ON, November 1993
"Revising the CMA Code of Ethics,” 5th Annual Conference
of the Canadian Bioethics Society, Montreal, November 1993
"The CMA Policy on Physician Assisted Death,” Conference
on "End of Life”Issues, Vancouver, February 1994
"Gone are the Days....Rationing Health Care in this Deficit
Era,” Centre for Applied Ethics, University of British Columbia,
Vancouver, February 1994
"Redefining Comprehensiveness in the Deficit Era” (co-author
with Douglas Sawyer, MD), Conference on "Values, Ethics &
Vision in Health Care,” Edmonton, March 1994
Why Shouldn't We Kill the Dying” and "Death or Overkill?”
Conference on "Death and Dying: Christian Perspectives,”Brisbane,
Australia, April 1994
"Ethical Issues in Cross-Cultural Health Delivery,” John
Plunkett Centre for Ethics in Health Care, Sydney, Australia, April
1994
"Ethical Aspects of the Relationship Between the Physician
and the Pharmaceutical Industry,” 20th Annual Congress of the
Quebec Association of Internists, Rheumatologists and Geriatricians,
Manoir du Lac Delage, Quebec, June 1994
"Is There a Right To Die?” Second Annual William R. Slatkoff
Commemorative Lecture, McGill University, Montreal, November 1994
"The Physician's Role in Accessing Publicly Funded Health Benefits”
(co-author with Carole Lucock), 6th Annual Conference of the Canadian
Bioethics Society, Ottawa, November 1994.
"Moral Values and Public Policy,” Newman Association of
Vancouver Annual General Meeting, West Vancouver, BC, May 1995
"Speaking Religiously in Public: The Use and Misuse of Theological
Language and Arguments in Public Policy Debates,” Canadian
Theological Society, Université du Québec à
Montréal, June 1995
"Revising the CMA Code of Ethics: A Progress Report,”
7th Annual Conference of the Canadian Bioethics Society, Vancouver,
November 1995
"Biotechnology: Cornucopia or Pandora's Box?” Dal Grauer
Memorial Lecture Panel Discussion, Vancouver, September 1996
"A Canadian Approach to Determining Which Health Care Services
Should be Publicly Funded,” 1st International Conference on
Priorities in Health Care, Stockholm, Sweden, October 1996
"The Content of Medical Ethics Education: A Canadian Perspective”
and "How Medical Ethics is Taught in Canada,” Medical
Ethics Education Seminar, Cape Town, South Africa, October 1996
"Tiers and Tears: The Ethics of Health Reform,” Telemedicine
Canada, November 1996
"Values in Health Reform,” Conference on "Examining
Fundamental Values: The Future of Health Policy and Health Care,”
Toronto, January 1997
"Bioethics and Ecumenism,” Saskatoon Theological Union,
Saskatoon, SK, September 1997
"The Ethical Implications of Regionalizing Health Care,”
Regionalization Conference, Brandon University, Brandon, MB, September
1997
"Ethical Issues in Hospital Amalgamation,” Kingston General
Hospital, Kingston, ON, November 1997
“Nuevas Tendencias en Bioética: Oportunidades y Desafíos,”
Universidad de la Frontera, Temuco, Chile, April 1998
“The Political Ethics of Decentralizing Health Care Priority
Setting in Canada” (co-author with Michael Yeo), II International
Conference on Priorities in Health Care, London, UK, October 1998
“Incorporating Ethics in Priority Setting: A Case Study of
a Regional Health Board in Canada” (co-author, with Michael
Yeo and Wayne Hooper), II International Conference on Priorities
in Health Care, London, UK, October 1998
“Ethics: A Brief Overview,” South African Medical Association
Human Rights, Law and Ethics Committee, Pretoria, South Africa,
February 1999
“Incorporating Ethics in Hospital Resource Allocation,”
University of Cape Town Faculty of Medicine, February 1999
“What Good is a Code of Ethics?” University of Cape Town
Philosophy Society, March 1999
“Ethics and Palliative Care,” St. Luke’s Hospice,
Cape Town, April 1999
“Can Healthcare be Just?” University of Cape Town Philosophy
Department, April 1999
“Ethics for Doctors,” Little Company of Mary Hospital,
Pretoria, May 1999
“Withholding and Withdrawing Life-Sustaining Treatment,”
University of the Witwatersrand Faculty of Medicine, Johannesburg,
June 1999
“A Vision for the Future of Medicine,” University of the
Witwatersrand Faculty of Medicine, Johannesburg, June 1999
“Justice and Health Care in South Africa,” Canadian Bioethics
Society Annual Conference, Edmonton, AB, October 1999
“Medical Ethics for Military Physicians,” 1999 Conference
on Ethics in Defense, Ottawa, November 1999
“Ethics and the Transformation of Health Care in South Africa,”
Canadian Conference on International Health, Hull, QC, November
1999
“Bioethics and Ecumenism,” Canadian Theological Society
Annual Conference, Edmonton, AB, May 2000
“Revising the Declaration of Helsinki: Ethics, Politics and
Globalization,” Canadian Society for the Study of Practical
Ethics Annual Conference, Edmonton, AB, May 2000
“Revising the Declaration of Helsinki,” Health Canada
Therapeutic Products Programme Continuing Education, Ottawa, June
2000
“Professional Development in Ethics via the Internet,”
International Institute for Public Ethics Year 2000 Conference,
Ottawa, September 2000
“The Canadian Role in the Revision of the Declaration of Helsinki,”
Canadian Bioethics Society Annual Conference, Québec, October
2000
“International Corporate Codes of Conduct,” Global Responsibility
and the Practices of International Businesses in Developing Areas
Research Workshop, Montreal, December 2000
“Ethics and Equity in Global Health Research,” Towards
Equality in Global Health: Do Ethics Matter? Conference, Vancouver,
March 2002
“Boundaries and International Bioethics: Lessons from the World
Medical Association,” Canadian Society for the Study of Practical
Ethics, Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Toronto,
May 2002
“When Resources Are Limited: The Ethics of Allocation,”
Homewood Health Centre, Guelph, ON, May 2002
“Waiting Lists: The Ethics of Allocation,” Canadian Surgery
Forum, London, ON, September 2002
“Assisted Human Reproduction Legislation in Canada,” Canadian
Bioethics Society Annual Conference, Victoria, BC, October 2002
“Working Towards a Common Moral Framework on an RHA Board:
The PEI Experience,” Tough Choices: The Ethics of Allocating
Health Resources Conference, Banff, AB, April 2003
“The World Medical Association’s Declaration Of Helsinki:
An Evolving Global Perspective on Ethical Review,” Ethics in
Clinical Development: From Legislation to Implementation Workshop,
London, UK, December 2003
“Research Ethics for Medical Students,” 53rd March Meeting
of the International Federation of Medical Student Associations,
Isla de Margarita, Venezuela, March 2004
“An International Ethics Manual for Medical Students”
and “The Current State of the Debate About Paragraph 30 of
the Declaration of Helsinki,” 3rd International Conference
on Ethics Education in Medical Schools, Eilat, Israel, March 2004
“Ethics and Bereavement” (co-author, with Rosemary Williams,
M.S.W.), 21st International Conference on Death and Bereavement,
Eilat, Israel, March 2004
“The Ethics Activities of the World Medical Association,”
The Ethics of Intellectual Property Rights and Patents Conference,
Warsaw, Poland, April 2004
Conference/Workshop Organization and Facilitation
Organizer of Religion, Ethics, and Energy
Developments in Canada workshop, Vancouver, June 1-3, 1983
Member of Annual Meeting Program Committee, Canadian Society for
the Study of Religion (1985-1988)
Member of Annual Meeting Program Committee, Canadian Society for
Medical Bioethics (1986-1988)
Conference/Workshop Organization and Facilitation (continued)
Member of the organizing committee for the Health Care Institution
Ethics Committees workshops, Montreal, May 5-6 and 8-9, 1986, April
28-29 and May 5-6, 1987 and May 10-11, 1988
Organizer of Between Two Worlds: Ethical Issues in Inter-Cultural
Health Care workshop, Montreal, November 4, 1989
Chairperson, Subgroup on Legal and Ethical Issues, Consensus Conference
on Research Priorities: Drug Utilization Related Problems in Elderly
Canadians, Ottawa, November 29-30, 1990
Member of the organizing committee and resource person for CMA Atlantic
Region Ethics Conference for Physicians on Issues in Clinical Ethics,
Halifax, October 16, 1993
Working group rapporteur for the World Medical Association Assembly
scientific session on Medical Ethics: Humanity's Needs, Stockholm,
Sweden, Sept. 1-5, 1994
Member of the organizing committee and working group rapporteur
for the National Council on Bioethics in Human Research Workshop
on The Ethics of Human Experimentation: REinventing the Research
Ethics Board, Ottawa, Mar. 5-6, 1995
Facilitator and resource person (with Michael Yeo, Ph.D.) for the
Queens Regional Board Ethics Workshop, Charlottetown, PEI, July
20, 1995
Facilitator and resource person for the Catholic Health Association
of Canada symposium on Values and Rationing of Healthcare Resources,
Vancouver, BC, Nov. 24-25, 1995
Facilitator and resource person for the Mistahia Regional Health
Authority workshops on Ethics, Governance and Policy-Making, Ethics
and the Allocation of Resources, The RHA and its Bioethics Committee,
and The Regional Bioethics Committee, Grande Prairie, AB, March
14-15, 1996
Organizer and resource person for conference on Issues in Clinical
Ethics, Yellowknife, NWT, February 7-8, 1997
Facilitator and resource person for full-day workshop on “Ethics
in Health Care: A Practical Guide,” Medical Ethics 2000 conference,
Midrand, South Africa, August 21-23, 2000
Organizer (with Francis Rolleston and Dan McLeod) of workshop on
“Government Accountability for the Ethics of Research Involving
Humans,” International Institute of Public Ethics Year 2000
Conference, Ottawa, September 28, 2000
Member of Annual Meeting Program Committee, Canadian Bioethics Society
(2000)
Courses Taught at Memorial University of Newfoundland,
1971-1984
Frequently
R.S. 1020, Religion and Western Culture
R.S. 2010, Introduction to World Religions
R.S. 2600, Religion and Personal Ethics
R.S. 2601, Religion and Social Ethics
Occasionally
R.S. 2110, Religion and Society in the Reformation
R.S. 2800, Women in the Christian Tradition
R.S. 3531, Modern Critical and Anti-Religious Thought
R.S. 3560, Religion and Society in the Middle Ages
R.S. 3570, The Later Reformation
R.S. 3630, Christian Social Ethics
R.S. 4702, Religion, Death and Dying
R.S. 4704, The Ecumenical Movement
Faculty of Medicine, Medical Ethics
Courses Taught at McGill University, 1985-1987
260-471B, Christian Social Ethics
260-673A, Interpreters of Christian Values in the Modern World
260-672A, Theology and Bioethics
Faculty of Medicine, Medical Ethics and Jurisprudence
Course Taught at Toronto School of Theology, July
1988
3614S, Theology, Bioethics and AIDS
Course Taught at Concordia University, 1989-1990
REL 370, On Death and Dying
Other Teaching Activities at Concordia University
Two PhD reading courses (1991-1992)
One comprehensive examination (1991-1992)
Member of dissertation committee (1993-2001)
Teaching Activities at University of Ottawa
Guest lectures in Health Administration
Medical Ethics and Health Law courses.
Guest lectures/seminar presentations to 1st and 4th year undergraduate
medical students, surgery and obstetrics-gynaecology residents.
Facilitation of 1st and 2nd year discussions of medical professionalism.
Major University Service Activities
Chairperson of committee to establish Memorial
University of Newfoundland Faculty Association (MUNFA) Scholarship
Trust Fund, 1975-1977.
Member of MUNFA Executive 1976-1977 and 1979-1981.
Member of committee to establish a programme in medical ethics in
the Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University of Newfoundland, 1982-1984.
Founding member of MUN Shastri Committee, 1983-1984.
Member of University Appeals Committee, 1983-1984.
Junior Studies Coordinator for Religious Studies, 1973-1974, 1976-1977,
1982-1984.
Member, Medical Ethics and Jurisprudence Course Coordinating Committee,
McGill University Faculty of Medicine, 1985-1987.
Member, Professionalism Committee, Faculty of Medicine, University
of Ottawa, 2001-2003.
