2025 Montreal Health Ethics Conference Series

Theme: Ethical Issues Related to Women’s Health and Well-being

Next conference: April 10, 2025

Title: Violences obstétricales et gynécologiques (virtual panel)

Speakers: Sylvie Lévesque, UQAM, and Suzy Basile, UQAT

NEW WEBSITE FOR THE LIVING ETHICS INTERNATIONAL NETWORK

Visit the website of the Living Ethics International Network website to learn more about the resources, members, and schedule of activities.

Transition from pediatric to adult health services: A survey of challenges, needs, and preferences of youths and parents

This study documents a series of challenges in care coordination and in preparing youths with chronic illnesses for adult care.

NEW PUBLICATION***

Hippocrate magazine

Hippocrate magazine honors innovation in healthcare. In 2024, we received the Innovation Award: Improving User Experience.

The Theory of Deliberative Wisdom

Unit Director Eric Racine publishes a new book at Mit Press offering a workable and inspiring model of ethics, showing not only why ethics matters but also how it can be used to improve human welfare.

** New book! 📖

Parachute Project. Awareness capsules (in French)

How does the transition go from the pediatric environment to the adult environment? How to optimize continuity of care? These capsules, which give voice to patients, offer possible answers.

 

***Videos

Pragmatism strives to develop practical approaches that promote human values and human flourishing using state-of-the-art methods from different disciplines.

Click “Learn more” to read about our history, theoretical and methodological foundations, and achievements.

PROJECTS

Research undertaken at the Pragmatic Health Ethics Research Unit addresses a range of challenges in health care, research, and health policy. It relies on the use of interdisciplinary approaches that are grounded in facts, open to deliberative processes, and focused on producing practical changes that promote respect of persons and human flourishing in all its diversity.