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Does Allowing Track 2 MAiD Harm Disabled People?

Canadian Journal of Bioethics
In 2021, in response to the Superior Court of Quebec’s decision in Truchon v. Canada, the Canadian Parliament amended the Criminal Code to allow Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) for some people who don’t have a “reasonably foreseeable natural death ...
Nicholas Abernethy
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Dying to go to court: demanding a legal remedy to end-of-life uncertainty [PDF]

, 2015
No abstract ...
Richards, N.
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Key Topics on End-of-Life Care for African Americans [PDF]

, 2006
Racial classifications of human populations are politically and socially determined. There is no biological or genetic basis for these racial classifications. Health behaviors may be influenced by culture and poverty.
Bernice Harper, Bethsheba Johnson, Camilla Hudson, Diane Deese, Fay Burrs, Gloria Ramsey, Gwendolyn London, Harold Freeman, Jeremiah Wright, Jr., Joseph Dancy, Jr., Karla Holloway, Kelvin Calloway, LaVera Crawley, Michelle Grant Ervin, Myra Christopher, Paul Smith, Pernessa Seele, Richard Payne, Robert Washington, Rosalyn Priester, Sharon R. Latson, Skaykh Ibrahim Abdul-Malik, William Johnson, Willie Davis   +23 more
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Ethical arguments against coercing provider participation in MAiD (medical assistance in dying) in Ontario, Canada

BMC Medical Ethics, 2020
It has historically been a crime in Canada to provide assistance to someone in ending their own life, however, this paradigm was inverted in 2015 when the Supreme Court of Canada (SCC) ruled that restrictions on this practice, within certain defined ...
Travis Carpenter, Lucas Vivas
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Hastening death in end-of-life care: A survey of doctors [PDF]

, 2009
This is the post-print version of the final paper published in Social Science & Medicine. The published article is available from the link below. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural ...
Seale, C
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Physician-Assisted Suicide: A Common Law Roadmap for State Courts [PDF]

, 1997
Part I examines the development of the law legalizing passively hastening death and how this development relied significantly on distinguishing passively hastening death from actively hastening death.
Meisel, Alan
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Medical assistance in dying for mental illness: a complex intervention requiring a correspondingly complex evaluation approach

British Journal of Psychiatry
Medical assistance in dying for mental illness as a sole underlying medical condition (MAiD MI-SUMC) is a controversial and complex policy in terms of psychosocial and ethical medical practice implications. We discuss the status of MAiD MI-SUMC in Canada
Hamer Bastidas-Bilbao, David Castle, Mona Gupta, Vicky Stergiopoulos, L. Hawke   +4 more
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Medical Assistance in Dying and its extensions in Canada

Health Reform Observer - Observatoire des Réformes de Santé
Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) was allowed in 2016 through an amendment of the Criminal Code, prompted by a decision of the Supreme Court of Canada. Initially, MAiD was open for patients with a grievous and irremediable condition and whose death was
Michel Grignon, Yukiko Asada, Leslie-Anne Campbell, Scott Y.H. Kim, Nathan K. Smith   +4 more
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Semantics in referring for medical assistance in dying [PDF]

Canadian Medical Association Journal, 2018
The title “Doctors do not need to refer for medical assistance in dying” for the editorial[1][1] in the emailed list of contents for the February 20, 2018, issue is misleading. Physicians, at least in Ontario, do need to refer for medical assistance in dying (MAiD), so, as the article notes,
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Exploring attitudes toward physician-assisted death in patients with life-limiting illnesses with varying experiences of palliative care: a pilot study

BMC Palliative Care, 2018
Background On February 6th, 2015, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled that competent adults suffering intolerably from a grievous and irremediable medical condition have the right to the assistance of a physician in ending their own lives, an act known as ...
Patricia Hizo-Abes, Lauren Siegel, Gil Schreier   +2 more
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