PRAGMATIC HEALTH ETHICS RESEARCH UNIT

The Pragmatic Health Ethics Research Unit was launched in 2006 under the leadership of Dr. Eric Racine, PhD to sustain the longest history of Canadian bioethics activities, based at the IRCM since 1976... The Pragmatic Health Ethics Research Unit is an interdisciplinary research group based at the Montreal Clinical Research Institute (IRCM). We are committed to developing new theories, concepts, and methodologies to sustain innovative, evidence-informed, and collaborative responses to ethical problems surfacing in science, medicine, and technology, as well as at the intersections of these fields. The Unit evolved for its first 12 years under the name of the Neuroethics Research Unit... Deliberative methods are employed to foster dialogue and mutual learning in numerous areas such as neonatal prognostication, cognitive enhancement, and person-oriented research ethics. Forthcoming developments include methods of assessing ethical outcomes and participatory interventional ethics..

Also known as: Pragmatic Health Ethics

Primary location: Montreal