Surrogacy in Canada brings together a range of critical perspectives on the governance of surrogacy in Canada. Its chapters offer insight into how to address the challenges of regulating surrogacy and how to (re)think the governance of surrogacy in ways that address the health, wellbeing, and autonomy of surrogates.
Decision makers must continuously seek scientific advice as part of a well- functioning policy advisory system. Scientific advisory committees (SACs) are often a critical part of this process. Optimizing Scientific Advisory Committees is a special edition of the journal Global Challenges. It brings insights from researchers across public health, medicine, economics, history, law, and political science.
When the oral history of a medicinal plant as a genetic resource is used to develop a blockbuster drug, how is the contribution of Indigenous peoples recognized in research and commercialization? This book is the result of research conducted in partnership with Canadian Indigenous peoples on access and benefit sharing policies over genetic resources and Indigenous knowledge.
This book traces "deep equality" by focusing on positive narratives of people working out and accepting religious differences in everyday life, including healthcare settings. Rather than developing a normative rulebook with prescriptions for living with religious diversity, this study maps the micro-processes that make up the everyday negotiation of difference. It focuses on the fragments of stories that model resolution and a desire to find common ground using interviews, public submissions, statements, and fiction.
Canadian Health Law and Policy draws together the legal and policy issues relevant to human health in Canada. Vanessa Gruben is one of three editors as well as author of a chapter on reproduction. Seven other members of the Centre contribute chapters on medicare, access to health care, artificial intelligence in health care, medical negligence, informed consent, mental health, and social determinants of health and marginalized populations.
Law students, practising lawyers and policy-makers alike will benefit from the broad range of topics covered in this comprehensive text. Topics addressed include the law surrounding the funding and administration of mental health care in Canada, the principles of mental health law related to hospitalization and consent to treatment, the components of the criminal law of mental disorder, and mental health issues in the policing and correctional contexts. In addition, the authors offer focused treatment of mental health law issues facing specific populations, including children, the elderly, refugees and ethnic minorities.
The Routledge Companion to the Professions and Professionalism is a state of the art reference work which maps out the developments and debates around the sociology of the professions and how they relate to management and organizations.
Workers in Canada are sometimes seriously injured or even die on the job in cases where health and safety laws were not respected. Yet it is rare that criminal charges against companies or senior executives follow, let alone result in conviction. La responsabilité criminelle des entreprises en matière de santé et sécurité du travail investigates the reasons for the apparent ineffectiveness of legislation, while comparing the Canadian situation to that of similar countries.
