VPS Submission to AMAD Bibliography 2023
Introduction
Andrews v Law Society of British Columbia, [1989] 1 SCR 143 at 185.
Carter v. Canada (Attorney General), 2015 SCC 5 at para 111.
Kaiser, Archibald. 2009. "Canadian Mental Health Law: The Slow Process of Redirecting the Ship of State." Health Law Journal 17(1): 139-194.
Vulnerable Persons Standard. 2016. vps-npv.ca.
Equal Protection
Bertolote J.M., Fleischmann A. 2002. “Suicide and psychiatric diagnosis: A worldwide perspective.” World Psychiatry 1:181–185.
Brådvik Louise. 2018. “Suicide risk and mental disorders.” International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 15(9): 2028.
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. 2023. “The Monitor: The social solution to Canada’s health care problem.” Access Nov 2023.
Canadian Psychological Association. 2020. “What every Canadian needs to know about suicide.” Accessed Nov 2023.
Lamont, Michèle. 2023. “Seeing others: how recognition works - and how it can heal a divided world.” Atria / One Signal Publishers.
Library of Parliament: Mason, Robert. 2021. “Section 15 of the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: The development of the Supreme Court of Canada’s approach to equality rights under the Charter.” Accessed Nov 2023.
Mathen, Carissima. 2022. “Equality before the Charter: Reflections on Fraser v. Canada (Attorney General).” Supreme Court Law Review 104(6).
McClelland, Heather, Jonathan J. Evans, Rebecca Nowland, Eamonn Ferguson, Rory C. O'Connor. 2020. Loneliness as a predictor of suicidal ideation and behaviour: a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective studies. Journal of Affective Disorders 274:880-896.
Oexle, N, T. Waldmann, T. Staiger, Z. Xu, N. Rusch. 2018. “Mental illness stigma and suicidality: the role of public and individual stigma.” Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences. 27(2): 169-175.
ON(AG) v G, 2020 SCC 38 at para 61
Sealy-Harrington, Joshua. 2021. “The Alchemy of Equality Rights.” Constitutional Forum.
Standing Senate Committee on Social Affairs, Science, and Technology. 2023. “Doing what works: rethinking the Federal Framework for Suicide Prevention.” Accessed Nov 2023.
Tsuruda, Sabine. 2023. “Substantive equality and its remedial consequences.” University of Toronto LAw Journal 73(2): 189-201.
Watson Hamilton, Jonnette, and Jennifer Koshan. 2023. “Sharma: The erasure of both group-based disadvantage and individual impact.” Support Court Law Review (forthcoming).
Whatley, Shawn. “Unresolved tensions and the current state of physician assisted suicide and euthanasia in Canada.” Macdonald-Laurier Institute Commentary. Accessed Nov 2023.
Williams David R. and Mohammed Selina A. 2013. “Racism and Health I: Pathways and Scientific Evidence.” American Behavioral Scientist 57(8):1152–73.
End of Life Condition
Coelho, Ramona, John Maher, K Sonu Gaind, Trudeau Lemmens. 2023. The realities of Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada.” Palliative and Supportive Care 21(5): 1-8.
Gaind, K Sonu. 2020. “What does ‘irremediability’ in mental illness mean?” The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry 65(9).
Grant, Isabel. 2023. “Legislated Ableism: Bill C-7 and the Rapid Expansion of MAiD in Canada.” McGill Journal of Law and Health 15(2) (forthcoming).
Kim, Scott Y. H. 2023. “Canadian Medical Assistance in Dying and the Hegemony of Privilege. The American Journal of Bioethics 23:11.
Lemmens, Trudo, and Laverne Jacobs 2019. The Latest Medical Assistance in Dying Decision Needs to be Appealed: Here’s Why. The Conversation. Accessed Nov 2023.
Nicolini, Marie E. EJ Jardas, Carlos A. Zarate, Jr., Chris Gastmans, and Scott Y. H. Kim. “Irremediability in psychiatric euthanasia: examining the objective standard.” Psychological Medicine 53(12):5729-5747.
Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council. 2021. Mandates of the Special Rapporteur on the rights of persons with disabilities; the Independent Expert on the enjoyment of all human rights by older persons; and the Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights. Accessed Nov 2023.
Voluntary and Capable Consent
Aguiar, William, and Regine Halseth. 2015. “Aboriginal peoples and historical trauma: The process of intergenerational transmission.” National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health." Accessed Nov 2023.
Drifmier, Peter, and Jessica Shaw. 2021. “Medical Assistance in Dying (MAiD) for Canadian Prisoners: A Case Series of Barriers to Care in Completed MAiD Deaths." Health Equity 5(1).
Favril L. 2021 Epidemiology, Risk Factors, and Prevention of Suicidal Thoughts and Behaviour in Prisons: A Literature Review. Psychol Belg 61(1):341-355.
Felitti, Vincent, Robert Anda, Dale Nordenberg, David Williamson, Alison Spitz, Valerie Edwards, Mary Koss, and James Marks. 1998. “Relationship of childhood abuse and household dysfunction to many of the leading causes of death in adults: The Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACE) study.” American Journal of Preventive Medicine 14(4).
Frewen, Paul, Jenney Zhu, and Ruth Lanius. 2019. “Lifetime traumatic stressors and adverse childhood experiences uniquely predict concurrent PTSD, complex PTSD, and dissociative subtype of PTSD symptoms whereas recent adult non-traumatic stressors do not: results from an online survey study.” European Journal of Psychotraumatology 10(1).
Hankerson, Sidney , Nathalie Moise, Diane Wilson, Bernadine Waller, Kimberley Arnold, Cristiane Duarte, Claudia Lugo-Candelas, Myrna Weissman, Milton Wainber, Rachel Yehuda, and Ruth Shim. 2022. “The Intergenerational Impact of Structural Racism and Cumulative Trauma on Depression.” American Journal of Psychiatry 179:6.
Health Justice BC. 2022. “Medical Assistance in Dying: Canada is having the wrong conversation.” Accessed Nov 2023.
Kim SY, De Vries RG, Peteet JR. 2016. Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide of Patients With Psychiatric Disorders in the Netherlands 2011 to 2014. JAMA Psychiatry 73(4):362-8.
Martens, Kathleen. 2023. MAiD in prison: nine inmates have used Canada’s assisted-death program. National News. Accessed Nov 2023.
Mental Health Commission of Canada. 2020. The mental health needs of justice-involved persons: A rapid scoping review of the literature. Ottawa, Canada.
Nicolini, Marie E, Chris Gastmans & Scott Y H Kim. 2022. “Psychiatric Euthanasia, Suicide and the Role of Gender.” 220 British J Psychiatry 10.
Special Procedures of the Human Rights Council. 2021. Disability is not a reason to sanction medically assisted dying - UN experts. Accessed Nov 2023.
Statistics Canada: Hahmann, Tara, Nadine Badets, and Jeffrey Hughes. 2019. Indigenous people with disabilities in Canada: First Nations people living off reserve, Métis and Inuit aged 15 years and older. Aboriginal Peoples Survey. Accessed Nov 2023.
Statistics Canada: Kumar, Mohan B, and Michael Tjepkema. “Suicide among First Nations people, Métis and Inuit (2011-2016): findings from the 2011 Canadian Census Health and Environment Cohort (CanCHEC).” National Household Survey: Aboriginal Peoples. Accessed Nov 2023.
Statistics Canada: Robinson, Paul, Taylor Small, Anna Chen, Mark Irving. 2023. Over-representation of Indigenous persons in adult provincial custody, 2019/2020 and 2020/2021.Accessed Nov 2023.
Assessment of Suffering and Vulnerability
Alegria, Margarita, Amanda NeMoyer, Irene Falgas, Ye Wang, and Kiara Alvarez. 2018. “Social Determinants of Mental Health: Where We Are and Where We Need to Go.” Current Psychiatry Reports 20(95).
Brunet A, Monson E. 2014. Suicide risk among active and retired Canadian soldiers: the role of posttraumatic stress disorder. Can J Psychiatry ;59(9):457-9.
Frazee, Catherine. 2016. “The vulnerable”: who are they?” Accessed Nov 2023.
Gallagher, Romayne, Ramona Coelho, Philippe Violette, K. Sonu Gaind, Harvey Max Chochinov. 2023. “Response to Medical Assistance in Dying, Palliative Care, Safety, and Structural Vulnerability.” Journal of Palliative Medicine. Published Online 14 Nov 2023.
Hicks, Lydia J, Christopher J. Mushquash, and Elaine Toombs. “A national-level examination of First Nations peoples’ mental health data: Predicting mental well-being from social determinants of health using the 2017 Aboriginal People’s Survey.” Front. Public Health 11:1073817.
Jeste DV, Pender VB. 2022. Social Determinants of Mental Health: Recommendations for Research, Training, Practice, and Policy. JAMA Psychiatry 79(4):283–284.
Sareen J. 2014. Posttraumatic stress disorder in adults: impact, comorbidity, risk factors, and treatment. Can J Psychiatry 59(9):460–467.
Arms Length Authorization
Canadian Association for Community Living. 2016. “Assessing vulnerability in a system for physician-assisted death in Canada.” Accessed Nov 2023.
Conway, Christopher C. , Robert F. Krueger, and the HiTOP Consortium Executive Board. 2021. “Rethinking the Diagnosis of Mental Disorders: Data-Driven Psychological Dimensions, Not Categories, as a Framework for Mental-Health Research, Treatment, and Training.” Current Directions in Psychological Science 30(2)": 151 –158.
Goldenberg, Sheila M, Chelsey Perry, Sarah Watt, Brittany Bingham, Melissa Braschel, and Kate Shannon. 2022. “Violence, policing, and systemic racism as structural barriers to substance use treatment amongst women sex workers who use drugs: Findings of a community-based cohort in Vancouver, Canada (2010–2019).” Drug and Alcohol Dependence 237.
Lewis, P. 2021. “Should Assisted Dying Require the Consent of a High Court Judge?” In B. White & L. Willmott (Eds.), International Perspectives on End-of-Life Law Reform: Politics, Persuasion and Persistence (Cambridge Bioethics and Law, pp. 113-144). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
U.N. Human Rights Committee. 2001. Concluding Observations of the Human Rights Committee: Netherlands, para. 5–6, U.N. DOC. CCPR/CO/72/NET.
U.N. Human Rights Committee. 2009. Consideration of Reports Submitted by States Parties Under Article 40 of the Covenant, para. 7, U.N. DOC. CCPR/C/NLD/CO/4.
Vulnerable Persons Standard. 2020. “Failing people with disabilities who experience systemic suffering: gaps in the monitoring system for Medical Assistance in Dying.” Accessed Nov 2023.
White BP, Willmott L, Sellars M, et al. 2021. “Prospective oversight and approval of assisted dying cases in Victoria, Australia: a qualitative study of doctors’ perspectives” BMJ Supportive & Palliative Care. Accessed Nov 2023.