Assistant Professor of Philosophy, U Lethbridge / author of ‘The MAiD Question: Understanding Canada's Assisted Dying Debate' (forthcoming, McGill-Queen's UP)
Lethbridge, AB (Canada)
Joined July 2022
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Grateful to the support of the John Dossetor Health Ethics Centre at the University of Alberta for making this event possible
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Registration is free - and now open. Attend virtually or in-person.
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What have we learned from Canada's first decade of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD)?
Join us - virtually or in-person - at the University of Lethbridge next month.
Registration is free and now open: sites.ulethbridge.ca/applied…
What have we learned from Canada's first decade of Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD)?
Join us - virtually or in-person - at the University of Lethbridge next month.
Registration is free and now open: sites.ulethbridge.ca/applied…
In this talk, I consider how the ontology of mental disorder bears on the ethics of MAiD MI-SUMC. I look at externalist approaches in the philosophy of psychiatry, according to which mental disorders are partly constituted by a person's relationship to their wider environment.
"MAiD at Ten: Lessons from Canada’s First Decade"
Submit an abstract by August 15
For more info: philevents.org/event/show/15…
They say "the assessment process for Track 2...is already rigorous, and will be more so for MAID MD-SUMC."
But why do we need *extra* safeguards for MAID for mental illness if "there's nothing unique about mental illness" (Jocelyn Downie)?
Opinion: Politicians can’t seem to make a clear decision on MAID, so let’s leave it to the Supreme Court theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
"[This] should be the start, not the end, of a rethinking of the rules around medically assisted death, as well as a reconsideration of how Canada funds treatment for mental illness."
theglobeandmail.com/opinion/…
What 'rights' are we talking about, exactly? And please don't say bodily autonomy.
Of course, what we're *actually* talking about is a supposed 'right' to demand that others - doctors, no less - cooperate with one's wish to die.
"What this committee is saying very clearly is that people with mental disorders are not Canadians on the same footing as other Canadians, that their rights can be dispensed with." - Mona Gupta
I agree.
This committee was stacked from the onset and basically carves out discriminatory exclusions for mental illnesses.
A sham. But likely, MAiD for mental illness becomes law in 2027.
Somewhere between less than half (43%) and "a slight majority" (57%) - neither of which constitute 'clear support'. But this is the same guy who said that the committee was 'biased' because expert consensus told him what he didn't want to hear.
Not to mention failing to have any conception of the distinction between free speech and academic freedom.
