LW Sumner
Biographic Data
| ID | 6005435 |
|---|---|
| NAME | LW Sumner |
| GIVEN NAMES | LW |
| FAMILY NAME | Sumner |
| SIGNATURE | SUMNER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University Professor Emeritus, Department of Philosophy, University of Toronto, Canada |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Conscientious refusal to provide medically assisted dying
Medical assistance in dying (MAiD) became legal in Canada in June 2016. Since that time, many health-care practitioners and health-care institutions have undertaken to provide it, and thousands of Canadians have taken advantage of it. At the same time, a significant number of both practitioners and institutions have refused provision of MAiD for various reasons, including conscience-based objections to it. In this article, I argue that refusal by…
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Conscientious refusal to provide medically assisted dying
Medical assistance in dying (MAiD) became legal in Canada in June 2016. Since that time, many health-care practitioners and health-care institutions have undertaken to provide it, and thousands of Canadians have taken advantage of it. At the same time, a significant number of both practitioners and institutions have refused provision of MAiD for various reasons, including conscience-based objections to it. In this article, I argue that refusal by…
Conscience (1 work) · Ethics in medical practice (1 work) · Family medicine (1 work) · Health care (1 work) · Law (1 work) · Law (1 work) · Medicine (1 work) · Nursing (1 work) · Palliative Care and End-of-Life Issues (1 work) · Patient Dignity and Privacy (1 work)