Medical Assistance in Dying (Maid) in Canada: Key Multidisciplinary Perspectives

Kotalik, Jaro, Shannon, David W.

Medical Assistance in Dying (Maid) in Canada: Key Multidisciplinary Perspectives
  • 出版商: Springer
  • 出版日期: 2024-07-27
  • 售價: $5,020
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  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 515
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 3031300041
  • ISBN-13: 9783031300042

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This book, written both for a Canadian and an international readership, provides a multidisciplinary review of the framework and performance of the Canadian Medical Assistance in Dying (MAID) program. In the first five years (2015-2021) of operation, this program delivered voluntary euthanasia and assistance in suicide to over 30,000 Canadian residents, presently representing a 30% annual growth. Looking back on these first five years, the 30 Canadian scholars and clinicians contributing to this volume raise important issues and attempt to answer key questions that have arisen in regards to its operation and its stated objectives. This volume strikes the most appropriate balance between the autonomy of persons who seek medical assistance, versus the interests and protection of vulnerable persons. Finally, the book makes suggestions on how the program can presently be improved. It identifies gaps in knowledge about MAID's operational program and its impact on individuals, families and society in order to stimulate the necessary research that is essential to the evolution of a healthy and well-balanced program. As a first, comprehensive examination of medically assisted deaths in Canada, this publication will be of great value to lay, professional, academic, political audiences both domestically and internationally, especially in jurisdictions that are examining their options of permitting assisted deaths.

作者簡介

Jaro Kotalik, MD (Charles University, Prague), DMRT (University of Toronto), M.A. (Medical Ethics and Law, Kings College, London, UK), FRCPC, is Professor, Northern Ontario School of Medicine University; Adjunct Professor, Department of Philosophy, Lakehead University; Associate Member of the World Medical Association. He served as a radiation oncologist, CEO of Thunder Bay Regional Cancer Centre, Vice President of Cancer Care Ontario and Clinical Professor of McMaster University. He founded the Centre for Health Care Ethics at Lakehead University, was its director for 12 years and is now Chair of its Executive Committee. He was appointed to the National Council for Ethics in Human Research and to several committees of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons. He served as a bioethics consultant to many organizations, including Health Canada and Swiss National Bioethics Committee.

David Shannon is a member of the Law Society Ontario practicing health law in Thunder Bay, Ontario. He received a Masters of Law degree at the London School of Economics, and has continued in his law practice and non-government organization leadership since then. His Dave Shannon Cross-Canada Tour in 1997 gained national media attention as he became the first quadriplegic to trek across Canada in a motorized wheelchair, and in 2009 he set another first by going to the North Pole celebrating the message that seemingly insurmountable barriers can be overcome.

Shannon has won numerous prestigious awards and honours, such as the Order of Ontario and the Order of Canada for his work advancing the rights of disabled persons and other minority groups in Canada and abroad. His academic and professional body of work has been expansive within the realm of human rights and health law. David has also been a sessional lecturer at Lakehead University and Negahnewin College at both the undergraduate and graduate level as well keynote speaker at numerous conferences across North America.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

Jaro Kotalik醫生（查爾斯大學，布拉格）、DMRT（多倫多大學）、碩士（醫學倫理與法律，倫敦國王學院，英國）、FRCPC，是北安大略醫學院的教授；雷克海德大學哲學系的兼任教授；世界醫學協會的副會員。他曾擔任放射腫瘤科醫生、雷灣地區癌症中心的執行長、安大略癌症護理的副總裁以及麥克馬斯特大學的臨床教授。他創立了雷克海德大學的醫療倫理中心，並擔任該中心主任12年，現在是其執行委員會的主席。他被任命為國家人體研究倫理委員會成員，並參與皇家內科醫師與外科醫師學院的多個委員會。他曾擔任多個組織的生物倫理顧問，包括加拿大衛生部和瑞士國家生物倫理委員會。

David Shannon是安大略律師公會的成員，專注於安大略省雷灣的健康法律。他在倫敦政治經濟學院獲得法學碩士學位，並自此持續從事法律實務及非政府組織的領導工作。他於1997年進行的「Dave Shannon跨加拿大之旅」引起了全國媒體的關注，成為第一位以電動輪椅穿越加拿大的四肢癱瘓者，並在2009年創下另一個紀錄，前往北極，傳遞看似無法克服的障礙也能被戰勝的訊息。

Shannon獲得了多項著名獎項和榮譽，如安大略勳章和加拿大勳章，以表彰他在推進殘障人士及其他少數群體權利方面的工作。他在人體權利和健康法律領域的學術及專業成就相當豐富。David也曾在雷克海德大學和Negahnewin學院擔任課程講師，教授本科及研究生課程，並在北美的多個會議上擔任主題演講者。

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