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Medical assistance in dying: A gendered issue in Canada?

Spectrum, 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
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MAiD in Canada: Ethical Considerations in Medical Assistance in Dying

Canadian 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
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Canadian Medical Assistance in Dying: Provider Concentration, Policy Capture, and Need for Reform

American Journal of Bioethics
Canada’s rapid rise in deaths from euthanasia and physician assisted suicide, termed Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) in the country, now ranks it second only to the Netherlands in terms of MAiD deaths as percentage of overall deaths, with one province
Christopher Lyon, T. Lemmens, Scott Y. H. Kim +2 more
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EXPERTS WEIGH IN: EXAMINING THE DEBATE ABOUT MEDICAL ASSISTANCE IN DYING (MAID) FOR MENTAL ILLNESS IN CANADA

, 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

BMC 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
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Human misconnection? A response to Beuthin and Bruce on medical assistance in dying providers’ lived experience

Death Studies
Beuthin and Bruce’s study ‘MAiD as human connection: Stories and metaphors of physician providers existential lived experience’ in this journal describes the affective experiences of Canadian Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) providers.
Christopher Lyon
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Provision of medical assistance in dying: a scoping review

BMJ Open, 2020
Objectives The purpose of this study is to map the characteristics of the existing medical literature describing the medications, settings, participants and outcomes of medical assistance in dying (MAID) in order to identify knowledge gaps and areas for ...
Carol Saleh +9 more
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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

Canadian 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
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Nurses’ experience of moral distress in the context of medical assistance in dying (MAiD): a systematic review

Ethik in der Medizin
Moral distress poses a significant challenge in nursing, often arising in ethically complex situations and leading to negative outcomes such as mental and physical strain, burnout, staff turnover, and diminished care quality.
K. Klotz +4 more
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MAiD and the Death of Dignity

Canadian Journal of Bioethics
The concept of human dignity figures prominently in discussions about medical assistance in dying. Yet the notion of ‘dignity’ is often ambiguous.
Daryl Pullman
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