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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on medical assistance in dying in Canada and the relationship of public health laws to private understandings of the legal order Tremblay-Huet, Sabrina; McMorrow, Thomas; Wiebe, Ellen; Kelly, Michaela; Hennawy, Mirna; Sum, Brian
Abstract
Drawing on interviews we conducted with 15 medical assistance in dying (MAiD) providers from across Canada, we examine how physicians and nurse practitioners reconcile respect for the new, changing rules brought upon by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, along with their existing legal obligations and ethical commitments as health care professionals and MAiD providers. Our respondents reported situations where they did not follow or did not insist on others followingthe applicable public health rules. We identify a variety of techniques that they deployed either to minimize, rationalize, justify or excuse deviations from the relevant public health rules. They implicitly invoked the exceptionality and emotionality of the MAiD context, especially in the time of COVID, when offering their accounts and explanations.What respondents relate abouttheir experiences providing MAiD during the COVID pandemic offers occasion to reflect on the role actors themselves play in giving meaning (if not coherence) to the potentially conflicting normative expectations to which they are subject.
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The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on medical assistance in dying in Canada and the relationship of public health laws to private understandings of the legal order
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University of Oxford
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2021
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Drawing on interviews we conducted with 15 medical assistance in dying
(MAiD) providers from across Canada, we examine how physicians and
nurse practitioners reconcile respect for the new, changing rules brought
upon by the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic, along with
their existing legal obligations and ethical commitments as health care professionals and MAiD providers. Our respondents reported situations where
they did not follow or did not insist on others followingthe applicable public
health rules. We identify a variety of techniques that they deployed either to
minimize, rationalize, justify or excuse deviations from the relevant public
health rules. They implicitly invoked the exceptionality and emotionality
of the MAiD context, especially in the time of COVID, when offering their
accounts and explanations.What respondents relate abouttheir experiences
providing MAiD during the COVID pandemic offers occasion to reflect on
the role actors themselves play in giving meaning (if not coherence) to the
potentially conflicting normative expectations to which they are subject.
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eng
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2021-06-15
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Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
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10.14288/1.0398421
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Tremblay-Huet, S., McMorrow, T., Wiebe, E., Kelly, M., Hennawy, M., & Sum, B. (2020). The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on medical assistance in dying in canada and the relationship of public health laws to private understandings of the legal order. Journal of Law and the Biosciences, 7(1), lsaa087-lsaa087.
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10.1093/jlb/lsaa087
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Reviewed
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Faculty; Graduate
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International