Advance directives in Canada

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 256-260

  Browne, Alister ^a,b,c   Sullivan, Bill ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b BC CHILDREN S HOSPITAL   (Canada)

^c BC Civil Liberties Association

^d Guild Yule and Company LLP   (Canada)

^e VANCOUVER GENERAL HOSPITAL   (Canada)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

CANADA; ETHICS; HUMAN; LEGAL ASPECT; LIVING WILL; REVIEW;

ADVANCE DIRECTIVES; CANADA; HUMANS;

EID: 33745529514     PISSN: 09631801     EISSN: 14692147     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0963180106060324     Document Type: Review

References (7)

1. Singer PA, Robertson G, Roy DJ. Advance care planning. In: Singer PA, ed. Bioethics at the Bedside. Ottawa: Canadian Medical Association; 1998:41.
2. See note 1, Singer et al. 1998:41. Also, Fagerlin A, Schneider CE. Enough: The failure of the living will. Hastings Center Report 2004;34(2):30-42 at p.38.
3. This is the approach taken by the University of Toronto Joint Centre for Bioethics Living Will, available at the Centre's Web site at www.utoronto.ca/jcb,
4. and Molloy W, Mepham V. Let Me Decide: The Health-Care Directive That Speaks for You When You Can't. Toronto: Penguin Books; 1996.
5. For an example of such an approach see Browne A, Sullivan WJ. Advance directives: A third option. Annals of the Royal College of the Physicians and Surgeons of Canada (RCPSC) 1999;32(6):352-4.
6. See note 2, Fagerlin, Schneider 2004:34.
7. See note 2, Fagerlin, Schneider 2004:30-42, especially 30-1, 41-2.