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Chris Kaposy

Community Health and Humanities
BA (McMaster), MA (Concordia), PhD (State University of NY)

Assistant Professor of Health Care Ethics

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

christopher.kaposy@med.mun.ca

Research Interests:
  • ethical and policy issues in abortion care
  • public health ethics
  • clinical ethics
  • neuroethics
  • ethics of vaccine research and vaccination programs
  • disability theory and disability rights

Courses:
  • Ethics curriculum for medical students


Select Publications:

  • A Relational Analysis of Pandemic Critical Care Triage Protocols (2012). International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, 5(1): 70-90 (with Sarah Khraishi).
  • Two Stalemates in the Philosophical Debate about Abortion and Why they Cannot be Resolved Using Analogical Arguments (2012). Bioethics, 26(2): 84-92.
  • The Influence of the Stigma of Obesity on H1N1 Influenza Vaccine Sequencing in Canada in 2009 (2011). Vaccine, 29: 9607-9610.
  • Ethical, Evidence-Based Guidelines for Contraceptive Use in Research (2010). IRB: Ethics and Human Research, 32(5): 1-9 (with Françoise Baylis).
  • Judicial Reasoning about Pregnancy and Choice (2008). Health Law Journal, 16: 281-304 (with Jocelyn Downie).