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James Crombie

Ph. D., Associate Professor of Philosophy
Department of Human and Social Sciences
Université Sainte-Anne
Pointe-de-l'Église / Church Point
Municipality of Clare
Nova Scotia B0W 1M0
CANADA
44°20' N X 66°07' W [NS Webcam]

Office : 315 Dagnaud
Telephone : +1-902-769-2114, ext. 7104
Shared fax: +1-902-769-2930
Email: [Use format firstname.lastname@usainteanne.ca]

Courses given in 2020-21 (click here)

Recent publications (and other performances)

"Intellectual property rights trump the right to health: Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime and TRIPs flexibilities in the context of Bolivia’s quest for vaccines". Journal of Global Ethics. Published 2021-12-16. Open Access. DOI: 10.1080/17449626.2021.1993452 (accessed 17 December 2021).

"Medical Ghost- and Guest-Writing as Corrupt Practices and How to Prevent Them." In K. Çalıyurt (ed.), Integrity, Transparency and Corruption in Healthcare & Research on Health. Singapore: Springer, 2020, pp. 141-158.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-1424-1_8 (accessed 16 April 2020).

"Combating corruption in the pharmaceutical arena." Co-authored with Joel Lexchin, Jillian Clare Kohler, Marc-André Gagnon, Paul Thacker & Adrienne Shnier. Indian Journal of Medical Ethics, 2018 Jul-Sep;3(3):234-239. Published online: March 15, 2018.
https://doi.org/10.20529/IJME.2018.022 (accessed 17 April 2020)

Papers Given and Speaking Engagements

« Remarks on global vaccine (in)justice and intellectual property rights ». Contribution to a webinar entitled Global Vaccine Justice/Justicia global en Vacunas. With Gabriela Arguedas and Sridhar Venkatapuram. Moderator : Eduardo Rueda. Date: 7 July 2021. Recorded on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dblqz8o1c8s&t=3043s
"Qu'est-ce que le «buen vivir»?" ["What is 'buen vivir'?"] Subtitle: "Andean cosmovision, post-extractivism and social medicine". Paper presented at the 2019 Congress of the Canadian Association for Latin American and Caribbean Studies (CALACS) – May 10-12 (York University, Toronto).
« Una lucha sin fin: Apoyo y defensa de la lactancia materna frente a la comercialización mortífera de sucedáneos » ["An unending struggle: Support and defense of breastfeeding in the face of deadly marketing practices associated with substitutes"]. Paper presented at the XVth Congress of Social Medicine and Collective Health of the Latin American Association for Social Medicine and Collective Health (ALAMES) held in La Paz, Bolivia, 22-27 October 2018.
*"The Latin American Social Medicine Movement: Buen Vivir* and Collective Health"**. Paper presented at the 32nd EUROPEAN CONFERENCE ON PHILOSOPHY OF MEDICINE AND HEALTH CARE, 22 – 25 August 2018. Program (pdf) available here.
"The Latin American Social Medicine Movement Considered as an Alliance for the Advancement of Human Well-Being". Paper presented at the IDEA-GRETHA 2018 Conference: A World United: Allies in Ethical Development (Université de Bordeaux, France, 25-27 June 2018).
Participation in a Round Table (table ronde) on Health and Public Health (in French) on Thursday, 8 March 2018 from 4:30 to 6:00 as part of Research Week at l'Université Sainte-Anne. Participants: Nora Benachour, Véronique Brideau-Cormier et Louise Fontaine, respectively professors of biology, social service and public administration. Admission is/was free and members of the general public are welcome.
"La importancia ejemplar del caso 'Clorito' " ["The Exemplary Importance of the Case of 'Clorito' "]. Invited speaker - with Guillermo Coronado Céspedes and José María Gutiérrez Gutiérrez - at a Round Table on Clodomiro Picado Twight which took place on 29 September 2017 as the final event of Philosophy Week 2017 (25-29 September) at the Philosophical Research Institute of the University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica.
"Thomas Reid’s Common-Sense Philosophy in the Development of Nineteenth-Century French Spiritualism". Paper presented at the conference "19th-Century French Philosophy: The 'Spiritualist' Tradition and its Critics", held 14-15 September 2017 at the Manchester Metropolitan University (MMU), Manchester, United Kingdom. This conference was co-sponsored by the Institut d'histoire des représentations et des idées dans les modernités (IHRIM) of the École normale supérieure de Lyon, France. The program of the conference may be viewed here.
"Clodomiro Picado Twight (1887-1944): Pénicilline, antivenins, conscience sociale, et rôle de l’État" ["Clodomiro Picado Twight (1887-1944): Penicillin, Antivenoms, Social Conscience and Role of the State"]. Stand-alone paper presented at the 25th International Congress of History of Science and Technology held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, 23-29 July 2017. Conference theme: "Science, Technology and Medicine between the Global and the Local".
"Medical Ghost- and Guest-Writing as Corrupt Practices and How to Prevent Them". Part of a Symposium on Combating Corruption in Health Care and Pharmaceuticals which took place at the Munk School of Global Affairs, Toronto, Canada, 28 November 2016, with the participation of Sidney Wolfe, Joel Lexchin, Marc-André Gagnon, Jillian Kohler, Kiymet Çaliyurt, Fred Gifford and Paul Thacker. (Click here and scroll down the page.)
"¿Derecho a la salud? ¿O derecho a la propiedad intelectual?". ["Right to Health or Right to Intellectual Property?"] Paper presented at the XIV Congreso Latinoamericano de Medicina Social y Salud Colectiva, held at the Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Asunción, Paraguay, 25-29 October 2016.
"Falibilismo y anticartesianismo radical de Charles Sanders Peirce: Duda, creencia y facultades atribuidas a la mente humana" ["Peirce's Fallibilism and Radical Anti-Cartesianism: Doubt, Belief and Faculties Attributed to the Human Mind"]. Presented to the postgrads in philosophy and a number of professors at the Universidad de Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica, 23 August 2016.
"The unjust neglect of tropical diseases by medical research under the TRIPS Agreement / Les maladies tropicales injustement négligées par la recherche face au régime dominant de propriété intellectuelle". Presentation at the World Social Forum (WSF) 2016 in Montreal, Canada. Group: International Development Ethics Association (IDEA). Session: "IDEA 3" in the list of the activities (session 2 [sic]). Thème: Justice, Development and Health / Justice, développement et santé / Justicia, Desarrollo y Salud. Leacock Building, McGill University, Montreal, Canada, 11 August 2016 beginning at 13:00.
"Clodomiro Picado Twight (1887-1944) : découvreur de la pénicilline et 'Benemérito de la Patria' ". Paper presented to the Canadian Society for the History and Philosophy of Science (CSHPS) held at the University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada, 28-30 May 2016.
"The Eflornithine Scandal: How Pandering to Vanity Resurrected a Life-Saving Drug". Paper presented on the occasion of the official launching of the World Health Organization Collaborating Centre for Governance, Accountability and Transparency for the Pharmaceutical Sector of the University of Toronto and held at the Leslie Dan Faculty of Pharmacy, Toronto, Canada on 29 April 2016. Thème: "Taking the Pulse of Governance, Accountability, and Transparency in the Pharmaceutical Sector: Diagnosing the Issues". (Details of the WHO CC events can be found here.)
"Divergencias y Convergencias en el concepto de consentimiento informado en Canadá, Reino Unido y EEUU: Lecciones aprendidas del fallo Reibl c. Hughes de la Corte suprema canadiense" ["Divergencies and Convergences in the Concept of Informed Consent in Canada, the UK and the USA"]. Talk given as an invited speaker at a Symposium on Informed Consent organized by the Institut of Philosophical Research (Instituto et Investigaciones filosóficas INIF) of the University of Costa Rica (UCR), with the collaboration of the Research Vice-Rectorate of the same university, the College of Physicians and Surgeons of Costa Rica and the Costa Rican National Health Research Council (CONIS). The event took place in the Auditorio del edificio de Educación Continua, Ciudad de la Investigación, UCR, San José, Costa Rica, on 28 October 2015.
"Investigación médica, propiedad intelectual y enfermedades desatendidas" ["Medical Research, Intellectual Property and Neglected Diseases"]. Talk given at the invitation of the Local Research Bioethics Committee of the historic Hospital San Juan de Dios (HSJD) of San José, Costa Rica. Venue: Auditorio Universidad de Costa Rica. Date: 7 Octobre 2015. Beginning at 7:00 a.m.
"Essential Medicines, Intellectual Property and Neglected Diseases: A Proposal for Reform". Paper presented at the 10th International Conference and 30th Anniversary of the International Development Ethics Association held at the University of Costa Rica, San José, Costa Rica, 21-24 July 2014. The Proceedings (Memoria) of this meeting are available here.