Dr. Bernard Dickens
Fellow
Current Employer
University of Toronto
Election Year
1998
Academy
Academy of Social Sciences
Discipline
Law
Department
Faculty of Law
Keywords
Medical law, health law, bioethics, pulbic health law, reproductive health law
Bernard M. Dickens
Bernard Dickens, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, is a leading analyst, author and educator in Canadian and international health law and bioethics. His scholarship builds on foundational publications on legal and ethical consent to medical treatment, confidentiality, infant, child and adolescent health care, health research and terminal care, while addressing advanced issues such as medically assisted reproduction, medically assisted death, tissue transplantation and biotechnology. He has been centrally involved in the preparation of codes of ethical and legal practice in research with human subjects at university, Canadian and international levels, and currently serves on World Health Organization bodies addressing organ transplantation and human cloning.
Bernard Dickens, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto, is a leading analyst, author and educator in Canadian and international health law and bioethics. His scholarship builds on foundational publications on legal and ethical consent to medical treatment, confidentiality, infant, child and adolescent health care, health research and terminal care, while addressing advanced issues such as medically assisted reproduction, medically assisted death, tissue transplantation and biotechnology. He has been centrally involved in the preparation of codes of ethical and legal practice in research with human subjects at university, Canadian and international levels, and currently serves on World Health Organization bodies addressing organ transplantation and human cloning.