Arthur Schafer
Arthur Schafer is a Canadian ethicist specializing in bioethics, philosophy of law, social philosophy and political philosophy. He is Director of the Centre for Professional and Applied Ethics, at the University of Manitoba.
He is also a Full Professor in the Department of Philosophy and an Ethics Consultant for the Department of Paediatrics and Child Health at the Health Sciences Centre in Winnipeg. For ten years he was Head of the Section of Bio-Medical Ethics in the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Manitoba. He has also served as Visiting Scholar Green College, Oxford.
Professor Schafer has received a number of awards and honours. He is a Canadian Commonwealth Scholar, Honorary Woodrow Wilson Scholar, a Canada Council Fellow. At the University of Manitoba he has received the Stanton Teaching Excellence Award, the Campbell Award for University Outreach, and the University Teaching Service Award for Teaching Excellence.
Arthur Schafer has published widely in the fields of moral, social, and political philosophy. He is author of The Buck Stops Here: Reflections on moral responsibility, democratic accountability and military values, and co-editor of Ethics and Animal Experimentation. His curriculum vitae lists more than 90 scholarly articles and book chapters, covering a wide range of topics, with a special focus on issues in professional and bio-medical ethics, business and environmental ethics. Professor Schafer is National Research Associate of the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, which has published two of his Reports. He has made several hundred conference presentations in Canada and abroad, and has written dozens of newspaper articles for The Globe and Mail, The Toronto Star, The Winnipeg Free Press, The Medical Post, and The Sunday Times.
Arthur Schafer has been a frequent guest on CBC radio and television, including many appearances on CBC radio's Morningside, This Morning and The Current, As It Happens, Sunday Morning, and Cross Country Check Up; and CBC television's The National, The Journal, The National Magazine, and Newsworld. He has also appeared frequently on The Discovery Network's "@Discovery.ca", discussing ethical and value aspects of medicine, science and technology; and on the CTV, WTN, Global and Baton television networks.
Works
;Selected articles & book chapters"", The Allocative Conflicts in Water Resource Management, ed. Dixon Thomson, University of Manitoba Press, 1974.
"", Aspects of Privacy Law, ed. D. Gibson, Butterworth, 1980.
"", Journal of Social Philosophy, v. XII, n. 1, Jan., 1981.
"", The New England Journal of Medicine, Sept. 16, 1982.
"", Journal of Medical Ethics, 1983.
"", Canadian Medical Association Journal, v. 129, Jul. 15, 1983.
"", Law in a Cynical Society, eds. Gibson and Baldwin, Carswell, 1985.
"", Humane Medicine, v. I, n. 1, 1985.
"The Randomized Clinical Trial: For Whose Benefit?", IRB: A Review of Human Subjects Research, v. 7, n. 2, Mar/Apr, 1985.
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"", Humane Medicine, autumn, 1985.
"", Dialogue, v. XXV, 1986.
"", The Arch of Experience, eds. I.W.Mills and J.Mills, Holt, Rinehart and Winston Ltd., 1987.
"", Ethics and Aging, ed. E.Winkler, University of British Columbia Press, 1988.
"", Journal of the Canadian Dental Association, v. 55, n. 4, Feb., 1989.
"", Perspectives on AIDS: Ethical and Social Issues, ed. C. Overall, Oxford University Press, 1991.
"", Scholarly Publishing, University of Toronto Press, v. 24, n. 4, 1993.
"", International Journal of Health Services, v. 24, n. 2, 1994.
, eds. P. P. De Deyn, R. D'Hooge, R. Clara, and A. Schafer, John Libbey Co.Ltd., London, 1995.
. Caledon Institute, 1999.
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Canadian Public Administration/Administration Publique du Canada, v., 42, n. 1., 1999.
"", Queen Mary Law Journal, Oct., 1999.
"", Aging: Decisions at the End of Life,
eds. David N. Weisstub, David C. Thomasma, Serge Gauthier, and George F. Tomossy. Klewer Academic Press International Library of Ethics, Law and the New Medicine 171-205. 2001.
"", Healthcare Papers, v. 2, n 2., 45-52. 2001.
"", Report for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, autumn 2002.
"". Report commissioned and published by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. Sept., 2002. 1-15.
"", Journal of Medical Ethics, 30, 2004. 8-24.
"", v. 21, n. 2, Jan., 2007.
, Report: The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, autumn, 2007.
"", The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Monitor, 2007.
"", Bioethics: The International Library of Essays in Public and Professional Ethics, ed. Justin Oakley. Ashgate Publishing Ltd., London. 2008.
"", Canadian Pharmacists Journal, winter, 141, 2008. 191-7.
"", The Universities at Risk: How Politics, Special Interests, and Corporatization Threaten Academic Integrity, ed. Jim Turk. James Lorimer and Co, Toronto, 2008.
"", Arthur Schafer and Nancy Olivieri in Understanding and Responding to Pharmaceutical Promotion, ed. Barbara Mintzes, World Health Organization and Health Action International. 1st Ed., 2009.
"", Canadian Dimension, January–February, 2010.
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;Selected reviews
"" Review of The Ethical Imagination: Journeys of the Human Spirit. Margaret Somerville. House of Anansi Press, 270 pp.
"" Review of Enhancing Evolution: The Ethical Case for Making Better People. John Harris. Princeton University Press, 242 pp.
"" Review of The Case against Perfection: ethics in the age of genetic engineering. Michael J. Sandel. Belknap: Harvard. 2007, 162 pp.
"" Review of Let Them Eat Prozac. David Healy, James Lorimer and Company. 2003, 462 pp.
"" Hank McKinnell. McGraw Mill, 217pp.
"" Harold Coward and Pinit Ratanakul, eds. Wilfrid Laurier University Press. xii, 274.
"" Peter Singer. New Haven: Yale University Press. 2000.
"" Miriam Shuchman, Random House, 451 pp.
"" Lawrence E. Schmidt with Scott Marratto, McGill-Queen's University Press, 246 pp.
"" Margaret Somerville. Viking
;Other selected articles & book chapters
"The Allocation of Scarce Medical Resources: Some Moral and Value Issues", Journal of the Canadian Dietetic Association, v. 40, n. 1, Jan., 1979.
"Moral Leadership in Health Care", Dimensions in Health Care, Mar., 1980.
"The Ethics of Research on Human Beings: A Critical Review of the Issues and Arguments", Research Advances in Alcohol and Drug Problems, eds. Israels, Kalant, et al., Plenum Press, 1981.
"Clinical Trials: A Reply to Critics", New England Journal of Medicine, v. 308, n. 6, 1983.
"Kontrolieter klinscher Versuch: Dilemma for Artz und Patient", Medical Tribune, n. 13, Freitag 21, Jan., 1983.
"The Right of Institutionalized Psychiatric Patients to Refuse Treatment", Canada's Mental Health, v. 33, n. 3, Sept., 1985.
"Restraints and the Elderly: When Safety and Autonomy Conflict", Canadian Medical Association Journal, v. 132, June 1, 1985.
"Human Experimentation: A Critical Review", The Quarterly Journal of Biology, Dec., 1986.
"At Liberty and At Risk", Canadian Doctor, May, 1986.
"Reproductive Ethics", Dialogue, v. XXIV, n. 4, winter, 1986.
Bio-medical Ethics, ed. Arthur Schafer, Special Issue of The Journal of Social Philosophy, v. XVIII, n. 1, winter, 1987.
"Privacy", Human Rights and Freedoms in Canada: Cases, Notes, and Materials, eds. Berlin and Pentney. Butterworths, Canada, 1987.
"Caught in a Bind", Canadian Business, v..60, n. 11, Nov., 1987.
"The Randomized Clinical Trial: A Tragic Dilemma", Proceedings of the Second International Congress On Ethics in Medicine, N.Y., 1987.
"Nurses Define, Not Defy", Canadian Doctor, June, 1987.
"Ethical Issues and Aging", Fiction, Fact and Forecasts. Proceedings of the Fourth Manitoba Conference on Aging. Government of Manitoba, Queen's Printers, 1987.
"On Mice and Men", Canadian Doctor, June, 1987.
"The Death of Public Morality: A Civilization in Decline", Canadian Dimension, May/June, 1987.
"Writing Your Own Ending", Canadian Doctor, Apr., 1987.
"An Assessment of the Winnipeg Group Homes By-Law in Relation to Canadian Democratic Values", Court of Queen's Bench, Province of Manitoba, in the Matter of the City of Winnipeg Act. Expert Evidence.
"Achieving Informed Consent in Clinical Trials", Ethical Dilemmas in Cancer Treatment, ed. B.Stoll, Faber and Faber, London, 1988.
"Morals in the Rat Race", Prose Models: Canadian, American and British Essays, eds. Levin, Rampton, and Lynch. Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1988.
"Teratology: The Social and Ethical Dimension", Teratology, eds. G-H Schumacher, J.Fanghanel, TV Persaud. Gustav Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, 1992.
"Teratologie", Teratologie, eds. G-H Schumacher, J.Fanghanel, TV Persaud. Gustave Fischer Verlag, Stuttgart, 1992.
"Dental Ethics: Getting the Balance Right", Journal of the Canadian Dental Association, v. 55, n. 5, Mar., 1989.
"Dental Ethics: Challenge and Crisis", Journal of the Canadian Dental Association, v. 55, n. 6, Apr., 1989.
"The moral challenge of cosmetic dentistry", Journal of the Ontario Dental Association, July/Aug., 1991.
"Informed consent to surgery", Canadian Medical Association Journal, 1991.
"Implementing a DNR Policy: promise and peril", Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, v. 38, n. 5, 1991.
"La mise en place d'une politique de non-reanimation: espoir et perils", Canadian Journal of Anesthesia, v. 38, n.
5, 1991.
"Some reflections of a non-medical 'outsider'", Calyx: Ethical Issues in Paediatrics, v. 1, n. 4, autumn, 1991.
"From Global to Local: Issues in environmental planning", Proceedings of Laurentian Business-University Environmental Symposium. Laurentian University Press, 1993.
"Sticky wickets: ethical conundrums in development", Case Currents: Journal of the Council for Advancement and Support of Education, July/Aug., 1993.
"When too much isn't enough", in Economics: A Canadian Perspective, James D. Thexton and Charles A. Hawkes, Oxford University Press, 1994.
"The moral anatomy and moral pathology of the randomized clinical trial", Ethics of animal and human experimentation, eds. De Deyn, D'Hooge, Clara and Schafer. John Libbey Co., London, 1995.
"Keeping control over life and death", A Gentle Death, ed. M.Seguin. 1996.
"Prisoners' Right to Vote", Expert Evidence, in the Federal Court of Canada, McCorrister v. The Attorney General of Canada, Trial Division, 1996.
"The Buck Stops Here: reflections on moral responsibility, political accountability and military values", Government of Canada, 1997.
"Le responsable, c'est moi: Reflexions sur la responsabilite morale, l'obligation de rendre compte en democratie et les valeurs militaires", Government of Canada, 1997.
"A Cross-cultural dialogue on health care ethics", The University of Toronto Quarterly, v. 70, n. 1, winter, 2000/2001.
"Medicine, Morals and Money: dancing with porcupines or sleeping beside elephants?", Doctors for Research Integrity, Toronto, 2002.
"How much right has a beggar to beg?", Write of Way: Essay Strategies and Readings, ed.
"Medicare and our core social values", Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Monitor, spring, 2002.
"Human Embryonic Stem Cell Cloning", In the Agora: The Public Face of Canadian Philosophy, eds. Andrew Irvine and John Russell, University of Toronto Press, 2006.
"Tsunami Ethics: Jillian's Choice", In the Agora: The Public Face of Canadian Philosophy, eds. Andrew Irvine and John Russell, University of Toronto Press, 2006.
"Cracking down on Medical Trials", Agora: The Public Face of Canadian Philosophy, eds. Andrew Irvine and John Russell, University of Toronto Press, 2006.