Jeff Kirby
Professor
Contact information (retired)
Email: Jeffrey.Kirby@dal.ca
Telephone: 902-488-7502
Mailing address:
c/o C-315, 5849 University Avenue
PO Box 15000, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4R2
Academic / Research interests:
- Ethics analysis of complex healthcare practices
- Ethics dimensions of medical assistance in dying
- Social justice and accountability in healthcare policy and practice
- Critical care ethics
- Use of deliberative engagement methodologies to enhance collaborative decision making in health care policy development
- Organ donation and transplantation ethics
Related information:
Education:
- MA Philosophy (Dalhousie University)
- MD (Dalhousie University)
Selected publications:
Kirby, J. (2020) Should Institutional Conscientious Objection to Medical Assistance in Dying be Accommodated? Submitted to the Canadian Journal of Bioethics.
Kirby, J. (2019) An Ethics-informed, Comparative Analysis of Uterus Transplantation and Gestational Surrogacy for Uterine Factor Infertility in High Income Countries -- Approved for publication with minor revisions by the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry.
Kirby, J. (2018) Balancing Competing Interests and Obligations in Mental Health Care Practice and Policy. Bioethics 33(6):699-707.
Kirby, J. (2017) Medical Assistance in Dying for Suffering Arising from Mental Health Disorders: Could augmented safeguards enhance its ethical acceptability? Journal of Ethics in Mental Health 10:1-17.
Kirby, J. (2017) Is There a Particular Ethical Policy and Practice Space in North America for Uncontrolled Kidney Donation After Circulatory Death? Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 45:142-148.
Kirby, J. (2016) Organ Donation after Assisted Death: Is it more or less ethically-problematic than organ donation after circulatory death? Journal of Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy 19(4): 629-635.
Kirby, J. (2016) Balancing Legitimate Critical Care Interests: Setting defensible care limits through policy development. Target Article. American Journal of Bioethics 16(1): 38-47.