New York City’s plan has garnered the most attention – and criticism – but several cities are expanding their own intervention programs.
Given how quickly MAID eligibility has changed in Canada in the past six years, it is time we take a step back to ask whether current MAID practice is still something we want to support.
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Since 2016, Canada’s practice of offering MAID has followed a trajectory of ever-expanding eligibility. The ultimate expansion would make MAID available to anyone who wanted it, for any reason.
From next year, uterus transplants are being trialled in Australia. But it’s likely to be a while before they becomes mainstream clinical treatment.
A limited supply of donor organs, paired with a massive demand for transplants, has fuelled the global organ trafficking industry, which exploits poor, underprivileged and persecuted members of society as a source of organs to be purchased by wealthy transplant tourists.
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China’s industrial-scale organ trafficking practice has been executing prisoners of conscience and using their organs for transplantation for decades. This is known as forced organ harvesting.
Right to die activist Sean Davison (left) speaks to the press after three years of house arrest.
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People make decisions throughout their lives about their health. But when they are terminally ill they are not allowed to decide when they want to die.
Four basic principles guide the field of medical ethics.
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Refugee camps should only be a temporary solution. They’re no place for ongoing health care.
Surgeons at University of Maryland School of medicine showing the modified pig’s heart that would be transplanted into David Bennett.
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Heart-recipient David Bennett had done jail time for stabbing a man.
If you’re worried about older loved ones’ ability to care for themselves, try starting a conversation with nonjudgmental questions.
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In tough conversations, show your respect for loved ones’ autonomy and dignity.
Ethics are important to vaccination decisions because while science can clarify some of the costs and benefits, it cannot tell us which costs and benefits matter most to us.
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When making the decision whether to vaccinate children aged five to 11 against COVID-19, regulators in Canada must rely on sound ethics as well as sound science.
Potential benefits of human genome editing include new ways to diagnose, treat and prevent genetic disorders. But there’s a significant gap in regulation.
The pass could exclude vulnerable people from public life.
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There is a difference between people who deliberately seek out vaccines outside the system, and those who are offered them because they’re about to expire.
Medical decision-making is often based on universal principles of fairness. But what happens when systemic racism means the dice are rigged to begin with?
Deemed consent, or ‘opt-in,’ organ donation is a significant departure from the practices of health-care consent in Canada.
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Deemed consent organ donation means that everyone is assumed to be an organ donor unless they opt out, but assuming consent raises some ethical issues.
Hallways busy with COVID-19 patients have become temporary patient holding areas in overcrowded hospitals.
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States and hospitals are starting to declare ‘crisis standards of care’ as the pandemic floods their ERs. The orders have consequences – both good and bad, as a medical ethicist explains.
Visiting Professor in Biomedical Ethics, Murdoch Children's Research Institute; Distinguished Visiting Professor in Law, University of Melbourne; Uehiro Chair in Practical Ethics, University of Oxford
Professor of Bioethics & Medicine, Sydney Health Ethics, Haematologist/BMT Physician, Royal North Shore Hospital and Director, Praxis Australia, University of Sydney