Rm: HSC 2830
Tel: (709) 777-2338 Fax: (709) 777-7382

christopher.kaposy@med.mun.ca

• ethical and policy issues in abortion care
• neuroethics
• ethics of vaccine research and vaccination programs
• disability theory and disability rights

• Ethics curriculum for medical students

Highlighted Accomplishments:

• Fellowship in Knowledge Translation (2009), CIHR, "Vaccination During Pregnancy: Issues in Translational Ethics and Research Ethics"
• Research Grant (2008), The Law Foundation of NS, "The Concept of Choice in Canadian Judicial Reasoning about Reproduction", Co-PI with Prof. Jocelyn Downie

Select Publications:

• Report on the Prioritization of the H1N1 Vaccine in Canada in 2009, available online at http://noveltechethics.ca/page.php?page=5&sub=659&sub2=660 (prepared by Sarah Khraishi and Chris Kaposy)
• Ethical, Evidence-Based Guidelines for Contraceptive Use in Research (2010). IRB: Ethics and Human Research, 32(5): 1-9 (with Françoise Baylis).
• Will Neuroscientific Discoveries about Free Will and Selfhood Change our Ethical Practices? (2009). Neuroethics, 2(1): 51-59.
• Judicial Reasoning about Pregnancy and Choice (2008). Health Law Journal, 16: 281-304 (with Jocelyn Downie).