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John Beamish Dossetor | |
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| Born | (1925-07-19)19 July 1925 |
| Died | 6 April 2020(2020-04-06) (aged 94) |
| Occupations | physician andbioethicist |
| Known for | co–coordinating the firstkidney transplant in Canada and theCommonwealth |
| Awards | Order of Canada |
John Beamish Dossetor,OC (19 July 1925 – 6 April 2020) was aCanadian physician andbioethicist who is notable for co–coordinating the firstkidney transplant in Canada and theCommonwealth.
Born inBangalore,India, Dossetor attendedMarlborough College in Wiltshire before receiving a B.M. and B.Ch. fromSt John's College, Oxford in 1950. In 1955, he immigrated to Canada to accept a position atMcGill University. From 1960 to 1969, he worked at theRoyal Victoria Hospital.[1][2]
In 1994, he was made an Officer of theOrder of Canada. He was awarded the125th Anniversary of the Confederation of Canada Medal. Dossetor died inOttawa,Ontario on 6 April 2020 at the age of 94.[3]
In his 2005 bookBeyond the Hippocratic Oath: A Memoir on the Rise of Modern Medical Ethics, Dossetor describes his oversight ofskin graft experiments inIgloolik for theInternational Biological Program in the early 1970s. Dossetor describes his reaction to reading an account of the experiment from one of the test subjects years later, and his disturbed realization with hindsight that the consent process for this research, which had depended on "group consent from community elders" granted via a non-Inuk translator, had been "inadequate in that subjects...did not understand what was going on". He ultimately concludes in the book that his team did not do enough to secure meaningful consent, and expresses his concern that a careful, fullyinformed consent process is "still not considered crucially important even in research today".[4]
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 theGovernment of Canada.[5][6]
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