Thursday, October 6, 2016 - 12:30pm to Friday, October 7, 2016 - 1:55pm
Location: 
Solarium (room FA2) Falconer Hall - 84 Queen's Park

HEALTH LAW, ETHICS & POLICY SEMINAR SERIES

presents

Mary Shariff
Associate Professor & Associate Dean Research
Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba

Endgame: Clinical and Legal Distinctions Between Palliative Care and Termination of Life

Commentator:  
David Baker, B.A., LL.B., LL.M., L.S.M.
Bakerlaw

Thursday, October 6, 2016
12:30 - 2:00
Solarium (Room FA2), Falconer Hall
84 Queen's Park

Current dialogue regarding the administration or provision of lethal medications to patients upon request or “termination of life” often connects termination of life to palliative carewith a tendency to describe these activities as being on an end-of-life “spectrum” or “continuum of care”. The purpose of this discussion is to examine key clinical and legal distinctions between palliative care and termination of life in order to obtain understanding of the significance of the distinctions and why it might be important to retain such distinctions within the Canadian social and health care regulatory environment.

Mary J. Shariff is an Associate Professor and the Associate Dean of Research and Graduate Studies at the Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba. Mary teaches Bioethics and Law, Animals and the Law and Contract Law in the J.D. program and Legal Research and Theory in the Masters of Law program. She is a Research Affiliate of the Centre on Aging at the University of Manitoba.  Her principal area of research is Bioethics and law, and her work includes research related to euthanasia and assisted suicide, palliative care, health and aging as well as the environment and animals. Her research on end of life has been published in the McGill Journal of Law and Health, Health Law in Canada and the Canadian Medical Association Journal. She is co-author of the 4th edition of the book, Canadian Medical Law: An Introduction for Physicians, Nurses and Other Health Care Professionals. Mary acted as an expert witness on comparative laws in the Canadian physician assisted death cases, Carter v Canada (Attorney General) and LeBlanc v Canada (Attorney General) and was an invited presenter to the Special Joint Committee on Physician-Assisted Dying (House of Commons) and to Parliament during the Bill C-14 debate.


A light lunch will be provided.

For more workshop information, please contact Nadia Gulezko at n.gulezko@utoronto.ca.