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The Inge Lotz Foundation has donated R1 million to the Unit for Bioethics at Stellenbosch University which will enable it to tackle new research projects.
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Author: Lynne Rippenaar-Moses
Published: 19/05/2021
The Inge Lotz Foundation, which was established by her father Prof Jan Lotz after the 22-year old Stellenbosch University (SU) student was tragically murdered in her Welgevonden flat in Stellenbosch, has donated R1 million to the Unit for Bioethics at SU.
The Unit is situated in the Centre for Applied Ethics in the Philosophy Department of the Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences and is headed up by Prof Anton van Niekerk, who specialises in bioethics, the philosophy of religion and philosophy of the human sciences. Van Niekerk is also the Director of the Centre, which consists of four units – the Unit for Bioethics, the Unit for Environmental Ethics, the Unit for Business Ethics and Public Integrity, and the Unit for Social and Political Ethics.
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Winnipegger Ruth Enns on ableism in health care: Biased predictions with the power to act on them can be deadly for those outside the accepted norm, such as disabled people. (CBC)
These are stressful times and front-line workers have laboured heroically in this pandemic. However, heroes have Achilles heels.
Triage is one.
Statistics Canada says 22 per cent of Canadians live with disability, which, I believe, means ableism in medicine affects more than one-fifth of Canadians, whether they realize it or not.
Here are some things to consider when questioning where and why ableism exists.