Join the volume's editors for a thoughtful discussion at their public book launch as they question how Canada’s MAiD practice has developed and the implications for health care.
Unravelling MAiD in Canada: Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide as Medical Care (McGill-Queen's University Press, 2025), puts forth critical reflections and valuable insights as more jurisdictions consider their own assisted dying laws and policies.
Since legalizing euthanasia and assisted suicide as medical assistance in dying (MAiD) in 2016, Canada now provides more state-facilitated euthanasia and assisted suicide than any other country.
Join the volume's editors for a thoughtful discussion at their public book launch as they question how Canada’s MAiD practice has developed and the implications for health care.
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Dr. Ramona Coelho, family physician and Senior Fellow of domestic and health policy, Macdonald-Laurier Institute
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Dr. K. Sonu Gaind, Professor, Temerty Faculty of Medicine, University of Toronto and Chief of Psychiatry, Sunnybrook
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Dr. Trudo Lemmens, Professor and Scholl Chair in Health Law and Policy, Faculty of Law, University of Toronto
"...an indispensable reference tool for anyone who takes an interest in one of the defining issues of the early twenty-first century.” — Gerard Quinn, former UN special rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities
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Contact Dr. Trudo Lemmens at Trudo.lemmens@utoronto.ca
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