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From Prohibition to Permission: The Winding Road of Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada.
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- Clinical Ethicists and Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD): Possible Roles and Challenges.Bioethics · 2026Article
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- Advance Requests for Medical Assistance in Dying in the International Context: Some Legal Issues for the Canadian Case.Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante · 2025Article
- Public Deliberation for Ethically Complex Policies: The Case of Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada.Healthcare policy = Politiques de sante · 2024Article
- Patients' and Caregivers' Suggestions for Improving Assisted Dying Regulation: A Qualitative Study in Australia and Canada.Health expectations : an international journal of public participation in health care and health policy · 2024Article
- Practitioners' experiences with 2021 amendments to Canada's medical assistance in dying law: a qualitative analysis.Palliative care and social practice · 2023Article
- Getting Beyond Pros and Cons: Results of a Stakeholder Needs Assessment on Physician Assisted Dying in the Hospital Setting.HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues · 2022Article
- MAiD to Last: Creating a Care Ecology for Sustainable Medical Assistance in Dying Services.HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues · 2022Article
- Introducing Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada: Lessons on Pragmatic Ethics and the Implementation of a Morally Contested Practice.HEC forum : an interdisciplinary journal on hospitals' ethical and legal issues · 2022Article
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Abstract
In this paper, I offer a personal and professional narrative of how Canada went from prohibition to permission for medical assistance in dying (MAiD). I describe the legal developments to date and flag what might be coming in the near future. I also offer some personal observations and reflections on the role and impact of bioethics and bioethicists, on what it was like to be a participant in Canada's law reform process, and on lessons that readers in other jurisdictions might take from Canada's experience.
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