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|birth_place = [[Bangalore]], [[India]]<br />
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|death_place = [[Ottawa]], [[Ontario]], Canada<br />
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|known_for = co–coordinating the first [[kidney transplant]] in Canada and the [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]]<br />
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'''John Beamish Dossetor''', {{Post-nominals|country=CAN|OC}} (19 July 1925 – 6 April 2020) was a [[Canadians|Canadian]] physician and [[bioethicist]] who is notable for co–coordinating the first [[kidney transplant]] in Canada and the [[Commonwealth of Nations|Commonwealth]].<br />
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==Biography==<br />
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, Montreal|Royal Victoria Hospital]]. <br />
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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.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.legacy.com/obituaries/theglobeandmail/obituary.aspx?n=john-beamish-dossetor&pid=195935279&fhid=5973|title=John DOSSETOR Obituary - Ottawa, ON &#124; The Globe and Mail}}</ref><br />
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==Medical ethics==<br />
In his 2005 book ''Beyond the Hippocratic Oath: A Memoir on the Rise of Modern Medical Ethics'', Dossetor describes his oversight of [[skin graft]] experiments in [[Igloolik]] for the [[International 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, fully [[informed consent]] process is "still not considered crucially important even in research today".<ref>{{cite book|title=Beyond the Hippocratic Oath: A Memoir on the Rise of Modern Medical Ethics |url=https://archive.org/details/beyondhippocrati0000doss |url-access=registration | author=John B. Dossetor | publisher=University of Alberta Press | location=Edmonton | year=2005 | pages=[https://archive.org/details/beyondhippocrati0000doss/page/113 113-124]}}</ref><br />
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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]].<ref>{{cite news|url=https://nunatsiaq.com/stories/article/igloolik-inuit-sue-feds-over-medical-experiments-that-they-say-saw-them-treated-like-monkeys/ | title=Igloolik Inuit sue feds over medical experiments that they say saw them treated like 'monkeys' | newspaper=[[Nunatsiaq News]] | author=Jane George | date=June 21, 2019 | accessdate=June 23, 2019}}</ref><ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/inuit-experiments-skin-grafts-lawsuit-1.5185181 | title=Inuit sue federal government over medical experiments that included skin grafts | date=June 21, 2019 | newspaper=[[CBC News]] | accessdate=June 23, 2019}}</ref><br />
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* {{cite web|url=http://www.utpress.utoronto.ca/cgi-bin/cw2w3.cgi?p=dorais&t=29526&d=1037|title=Canadian Who's Who 1997 entry|accessdate=17 March 2006}}<br />
* {{cite web|url=http://www.medicine100.ab.ca/physicians/100physicians/dossetor.htm|title=Alberta Medicine Centennial profile|accessdate=17 March 2006}}{{dead link|date=November 2017 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }}<br />
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