Kieran Bonner, University of Waterloo

Research

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Latest papers

Physicians' moral distinctions between medical assistance in dying (MAiD) and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment in Canada: a qualitative descriptive study.
BMC medical ethics · 2025
A dialogical exploration of the grey zone of health and illness: medical science, anthropology, and Plato on alcohol consumption.
Theoretical medicine and bioethics · 2009 · first author

All 2 publications

Latest funding

Heritage in transition: scenes of urban innovation
SSHRC · 2015 · Co-investigator
$24,918

All 1 grants and awards

2 publications.

01

Physicians' moral distinctions between medical assistance in dying (MAiD) and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment in Canada: a qualitative descriptive study.

Matthew M, Bonner K, Stumpf A

BMC medical ethics2025

DOI: 10.1186/s12910-025-01176-7 PMID: 39893446

02

A dialogical exploration of the grey zone of health and illness: medical science, anthropology, and Plato on alcohol consumption.

Bonner K

Theoretical medicine and bioethics2009First author

DOI: 10.1007/s11017-009-9098-0 PMID: 19234871

Heritage in transition: scenes of urban innovation

Co-investigatorSSHRC2015Connection Grants

Principal investigators: Blum, Alan F.

Keywords: international conference; culture of cities; affect; innovation; interpretive methods; tradition; heritage

$24,918

From public funding decisions: CIHR since 2008, NSERC since 1991 and SSHRC since 1998 with their latest competition results, the Canada Foundation for Innovation, Genome Canada, the Canadian Space Agency, Canada Research Chairs, the Fonds de recherche du Québec, Ontario research funding, Michael Smith Health Research BC, the Canadian Cancer Society, Heart & Stroke and Brain Canada.

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Andrew Stumpf

Department of Philosophy

1 shared papers, latest 2025

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