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Supporting nursing roles in medical assistance in dying: Development and evaluation of an evidence-based reflective guide

open access: yesPEC Innovation, 2023
Objective: To develop and evaluate an evidence-based online Reflective Guide to prepare Registered Nurses and Nurse Practitioners for important professional, personal, and relational roles in MAID in Canada.
Barbara Pesut   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

An Indefensible Amendment to Medical Assistance in Dying Legislation

open access: yes, 2020
In a mere 18 words, the federal government has introduced an amendment to Canada’s medical assistance in dying legislation that is discriminatory, stigmatizing and simultaneously overbroad and impermissibly vague and arbitrary.
Downie, Jocelyn
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Perceptions and intentions toward medical assistance in dying among Canadian medical students

open access: yesBMC Medical Ethics, 2019
Background Medical assistance in dying (MAID) was legalized in Canada in 2016. As of July 2017, approximately 2149 patients have accessed MAID. There remains no national-level data on the perspectives of future physicians about MAID or its changing legal
James Falconer   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Medical assistance in dying: A gendered issue in Canada?

open access: yesSpectrum, 2020
Medical assistance in dying (MAiD) remains a controversial topic in Canada despite its legalization in 2015. Opponents of MAiD legislation often cite ‘pro-life’ or ‘pro-choice’ arguments which emphasize the value of human life.
Freya Hammond-Thrasher
doaj   +1 more source

MAiD in Canada: Ethical Considerations in Medical Assistance in Dying

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Bioethics, 2021
Medical assistance in dying (MAiD) is unique among the arsenal of medical therapeutics though it does return us to a dilemma Hippocrates addressed 2400 years ago.
William Robert Nielsen
doaj   +1 more source

EXPERTS WEIGH IN: EXAMINING THE DEBATE ABOUT MEDICAL ASSISTANCE IN DYING (MAID) FOR MENTAL ILLNESS IN CANADA

open access: yes, 2023
The prospect of implementing Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) for persons with mental illness as their sole underlying medical condition (MI-SUMC) has generated a polarizing discussion among experts, whose discourses influence public opinion and policy
Kanigan-Taylor, Sydney
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The impact on patients of objections by institutions to assisted dying: a qualitative study of family caregivers’ perceptions

open access: yesBMC Medical Ethics, 2023
Background Voluntary assisted dying became lawful in Victoria, the first Australian state to permit this practice, in 2019 via the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017 (Vic).
Ben P. White   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

A qualitative study of experiences of institutional objection to medical assistance in dying in Canada: ongoing challenges and catalysts for change

open access: yesBMC Medical Ethics, 2023
Background In June 2016, Canada legalized medical assistance in dying (MAiD). From the outset, some healthcare institutions (including faith-based and non-faith-based hospitals, hospices, and residential aged care facilities) have refused to allow ...
Eliana Close   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Plagued to Death by Ableism: What the COVID-19 Pandemic and the Expansion of Eligibility for MAID Reveal About the Lethal Dangers of Medical and Systemic Ableism in Canada

open access: yesCanadian Journal of Bioethics, 2023
In this paper, I draw on my research and experience as a disability ethics educator and advocate in order to demonstrate that both Canada’s COVID-19 response and its expansion of eligibility for MAID are symptoms of the medical and systemic ableism that
Heidi Janz
doaj   +1 more source

Dying and death in Canada

open access: yes, 2022
"Dying and Death in Canada provides a comprehensive, up-to-date examination of dying, death, and bereavement from a Canadian perspective. The fourth edition covers current issues and recent developments in the field, such the implementation of Medical ...
Northcott, Herbert C. 1947-   +1 more
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