John Dossetor
This article needs additional citations for verification. (June 2019) |
John Beamish Dossetor | |
---|---|
Born | kidney transplant in Canada and the Commonwealth | 19 July 1925
Awards | Order of Canada |
John Beamish Dossetor,
Biography
Born in Bangalore, India, Dossetor attended Marlborough College in Wiltshire before receiving a B.M. and B.Ch. from St John's College, Oxford in 1950. In 1955, he immigrated to Canada to accept a position at McGill University. From 1960 to 1969, he worked at the Royal Victoria Hospital.[citation needed]
In 1994, he was made an Officer of the Order of Canada. He was awarded the 125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal. Dossetor died in Ottawa, Ontario on 6 April 2020 at the age of 94.[1]
Medical ethics
In his 2005 book Beyond the Hippocratic Oath: A Memoir on the Rise of Modern Medical Ethics, Dossetor describes his oversight of
In 2019, several Inuit from Igloolik spoke out about the skin grafts and other medical experiments conducted on them without consent in the 1960s and 1970s and initiated legal action against the Government of Canada.[3][4]
References
- ^ "John DOSSETOR Obituary - Ottawa, ON | The Globe and Mail". Legacy.com.
- ISBN 9780888644534.
- ^ Jane George (21 June 2019). "Igloolik Inuit sue feds over medical experiments that they say saw them treated like 'monkeys'". Nunatsiaq News. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
- ^ "Inuit sue federal government over medical experiments that included skin grafts". CBC News. 21 June 2019. Retrieved 23 June 2019.
External links
- "Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry". Retrieved 17 March 2006.
- "Alberta Medicine Centennial profile". Retrieved 17 March 2006.[permanent dead link]