RESEARCH & FACULTY
Michael Yeo
Michael Yeo
Associate Professor705.675.1151 ext. 3704
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Sudbury Campus
PhD Thesis: Creative Adequation: Merleau-Ponty's Philosophy of Philosophy
- upon finishing PhD, accepted position as Research Associate, Westminster Institute for Ethics and Human Values
- worked as ethicist for Canadian Medical Association for 6 years
- have worked with numerous organizations on ethics issues (Canadian Nurses Association, College of Family Physicians of Canada, College of Nurses of Ontario, Ontario Police College, etc.).
- affiliated with Northern Ontario School of Medicine as member of Theme re: Personal and Professional Aspects of Medicine
- in addition to teaching
Education
- BA, Philosophy and English, York University
- MA, Philosophy, McMaster University
- PhD, Philosophy, McMaster University
Research Focus
main area of research is ethics and public policy
- currently researching in three related and overlapping areas: a) the tension and relationship between science and values in public policy; b) speech act theory as it relates to the relationship between science and values in public policy; c) rehabilitating the fact/value distinction.
- currently researching in three related and overlapping areas: a) the tension and relationship between science and values in public policy; b) speech act theory as it relates to the relationship between science and values in public policy; c) rehabilitating the fact/value distinction.
Awards
- Virtual Scholar, Inter-Agency Panel on Research Ethics, SSHRC $25,000
Publications
- Yeo, Michael. The Rights of Science and the Rights of Politics: Lessons from the Long-form Census Controversy. Canadian Journal of Sociology 37(3): 295-318.
- Yeo, M., Moorhouse, A., Khan, P., & Rodney, P. (Eds.) Concepts and Cases in Nursing Ethics (3rd ed.) Peterborough, ON: Broadview Press, 2010. Principal author of first edition; first author of second edition.
- Yeo, Michael. Propaganda and Surveillance in George Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four: Two Sides of the Same Coin. Global Media Journal - Canadian Edition, Vol. 3 (2), 2010: 49-66.
- Yeo, Michael. Do Family Physicians Agree on What Professionalism is? Debates (and Rebuttal) Canadian Family Physician, Vol. 55 (Oct. 2009): 968-971.
- Yeo, Michael, Emery, J.C. Herbert, and Kary, Dan. 2009. The Private Insurance Debate in Canadian Health Policy: Making the Values Explicit. SPP Research Paper: The Health Series, The School of Public Policy, University of Calgary, Volume 2, Issue 3, June. 2009.
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