Category Law & Policy

Physician-assisted death needs expert reporting and monitoring

April 12, 2016 · by · in Canadian Bioethics, Death & Assisted Dying, Law & Policy

Juliet Guichon and Pauline Alakija argue that governments should require that physician-assisted deaths be reportable to (and by) coroners and medical examiners, so that scrupulous monitoring of physician-assisted death may occur.

Abortions: Coming soon to PEI

April 7, 2016 · by · in Canadian Bioethics, Law & Policy, Public Health, Sexual Health

Nasha Nijhawan and Kelly McMillan explain why the PEI government has finally elected to provide abortion services on the Island.

Beware ‘Innovation-Speak’

March 28, 2016 · by · in Health Research, Law & Policy, Science and Technology, Science Funding

Matthew Herder wrote a Master’s thesis on Canadian science policy some ten years ago and by the time he was done, he had sworn off the word ‘innovation.’

Criminal Sexual Conduct and the Politics of HIV Disclosure

March 22, 2016 · by · in CIHR, Law & Policy, Mental Health, Sexuality

Michael Orsini and Jennifer Kilty discuss the criminalization of failure to disclose HIV status.

Clarifying the Assisted Death Recommendations

March 11, 2016 · by · in Canadian Bioethics, Death & Assisted Dying, Law & Policy

Maureen Taylor, Jocelyn Downie, and Jennifer Gibson suggest that recent commentaries on official Reports on assisted death in Canada misstate the recommendations made in the Reports and their relationship to the Supreme Court of Canada’s decision in Carter.

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