Call for Papers: Chronic Pain & Social Justice

A special issue of the Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal  Deadline for submissions: April 30, 2025, with the goal of publication in our September 2025 issue.  Topic areas: Edited by Jada Wiggleton-Little and Daniel Buchman Chronic pain is a major public health issue. Globally, it is estimated that approximately 20% of adults live with chronic pain, … Read more

PhD Candidate Kristie Serota Publishes Two Papers from her Dissertation

Lab PhD candidate Kristie Serota has published two papers from her dissertation on medical assistance and dying and disenfranchised grief. Check ’em out! Unacknowledged Pain and Disenfranchised Grief: A Narrative Analysis of Physical and Emotional Pain in Complex MAiD Bereavement Stories Mapping MAiD Discordance: A Qualitative Analysis of the Factors Complicating MAiD Bereavement in Canada Way to … Read more

Blog Post on Psychedelics and the Commercial Determinants of Health

New blog post! Dr Daniel Rosenbaum and Dr Daniel Buchman draw attention to commercial involvement in psychedelic research and to the population health risks associated with this involvement: https://impactethics.ca/2023/07/20/psychedelics-ethics-and-the-commercial-determinants-of-health/  

New Year, New Publication on Cannabis Companies and Conflicts of Interest!

We’re thrilled to announce our first publication from our Mental Health Commission of Canada Cannabis Catalyst grant, where we conducted a cross-sectional, descriptive, meta-research study to describe the characteristics of research that reports funding from, or author conflicts of interest with, Canadian cannabis companies. You can read the open access publication by clicking here.

Lab January 2023 Update

Fireworks over Toronto City Hall with the Toronto sign glowing below. We’ve had an exciting few months since our summer update! Here are some highlights: We welcomed undergraduate student Lucy Panko to the team We presented our research on Canadian cannabis companies and the sponsorship of scientific research at the American Society for Bioethics and … Read more

Daniel Buchman quoted in the Globe and Mail

Dr Daniel Buchman was recently quoted in an article in the Globe and Mail on moral judgments, substance use, and decision-making in transplantation. You can read the article by clicking here.

Lab Summer Roundup!

What an amazing summer 2022 we had at the Everyday Ethics Lab! Here are some highlights: We welcomed (and said goodbye 😢) to two amazing summer students, Amy Kim and Charlotte Wun We published collaborative articles on a critical discourse analysis on the Suboxone education program; supporting community overdose response planning; a scoping review on … Read more

Come work with us! Job Posting for Research Analyst

We are recruiting a talented Research Analyst to join our dynamic team in CAMH Education. The successful candidate will work under the direction of Dr Daniel Buchman on Everyday Ethics Lab projects as well Dr Sophie Soklaridis on social science research in health professions education. For more information please click on this link.

Publication Alert

New lab publication out in the journal Neuroethics. We wanted to know whether and to what extent authors of empirical chronic pain neuroscience articles engage with ethical issues in their peer reviewed publications: Check it out at this link.

New Podcast Episode!

Dr Buchman appeared on the AMS Healthcare podcast Good Tech, Compassionate Healthcare with colleague Dr Nelson Shen. Take a listen!