Jocelyn Downie

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Jocelyn Downie is affiliated with the following schools: Dalhousie University, Queen's University at Kingston

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According to Wikipedia, Jocelyn Grant Downie is the James S. Palmer Chair in Public Policy and Law at Schulich School of Law. She was the first Dalhousie scholar to be named a Pierre Trudeau Foundation Fellow. Early life and education While studying at Queen's University, Downie volunteered at Kingston General Hospital as a candy striper. While there, she saw an advertisement for palliative care volunteers and trained to become one. After earning her Bachelor of Arts and Master's degree, Downie earned her M.Litt at the University of Cambridge. Upon her return to Canada, Downie accepted a position as a research associate at the Westminster Institute for Ethics and Human Values.

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End-of-Life Decision-Making in Canada: The Report by the Royal Society of Canada Expert Panel on End-of-Life Decision-Making (2011) (85)
Canadian health law and policy (2002) (68)
The OHRP and SUPPORT--another view. (2013) (56)
A Comprehensive Analysis of MRI Research Risks: In Support of Full Disclosure (2007) (43)
Children and decisionmaking in health research. (1999) (42)
Being Relational: Reflections on Relational Theory and Health Law and Policy (2011) (38)
The Cambridge Textbook of Bioethics: Respectful involvement of children in medical decision making (2008) (36)
When is it permissible to dismiss a family who refuses vaccines? Legal, ethical and public health perspectives. (2007) (31)
Transnational Trade in Human Eggs: Law, Policy, and (In)Action in Canada (2013) (30)
Reflections on the Commercialization of Research Conducted in Public Institutions in Canada (2007) (26)
Professional recommendations: disclosing facts and values (2001) (24)
Welcome to the Wild, Wild North: Conscientious Objection Policies Governing Canada's Medical, Nursing, Pharmacy, and Dental Professions (2014) (24)
Pediatric Neuroimaging Ethics (2007) (23)
Abortion: ensuring access (2006) (23)
Clinical Trials and Industry (2002) (22)
Community-based research ethics review: reflections on experience and recommendations for action. (2001) (21)
Pediatric magnetic resonance research and the minimal-risk standard. (2011) (21)
Unilateral Withholding and Withdrawal of Potentially Life-Sustaining Treatment: A Violation of Dignity under the Law in Canada (2004) (20)
Barriers to access to abortion through a legal lens. (2007) (20)
Relational Theory and Health Law and Policy (2008) (20)
Dying Justice: A Case for Decriminalizing Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide in Canada (2004) (20)
Comparing the attitudes of four groups of stakeholders from Quebec, Canada, toward extending medical aid in dying to incompetent patients with dementia (2019) (19)
Ethics education for Canadian medical students (1991) (19)
Eligibility for organ donation: a medico-legal perspective on defining and determining death (2009) (18)
Family override of valid donor consent to postmortem donation: issues in law and practice. (2008) (17)
Patient Safety Law: From Silos to Systems (2006) (16)
Genetic and metabolic screening of newborns: must health care providers seek explicit parental consent? (2001) (16)
Medical Assistance in Dying and Mental Illness under the New Canadian Law (2016) (15)
Social determinants of health and slippery slopes in assisted dying debates: lessons from Canada (2021) (15)
The Therapeutic Misconception: A Threat to Valid Parental Consent for Pediatric Neuroimaging Research (2008) (14)
An Assessment of Ethical Climate in Three Healthcare Organizations (2002) (14)
Withholding and Withdrawal of ‘Futile’ Life-Sustaining Treatment: Unilateral Medical Decision-Making in Australia and New Zealand (2013) (14)
Nurses' perspectives on whether medical aid in dying should be accessible to incompetent patients with dementia: findings from a survey conducted in Quebec, Canada (2018) (14)
Pereira's attack on legalizing euthanasia or assisted suicide: smoke and mirrors. (2012) (14)
Are Informal Caregivers of Persons With Dementia Open to Extending Medical Aid in Dying to Incompetent Patients? Findings From a Survey Conducted in Quebec, Canada (2017) (13)
Ill-informed consent? A content analysis of physical risk disclosure in school-based HPV vaccine programs. (2012) (13)
The ethics of water fluoridation. (2000) (12)
A feminist exploration of issues around assisted death. (1996) (11)
Should Medical Assistance in Dying Be Extended to Incompetent Patients With Dementia? Research Protocol of a Survey Among Four Groups of Stakeholders From Quebec, Canada (2017) (11)
Quebec physicians’ perspectives on medical aid in dying for incompetent patients with dementia (2018) (11)
Interpreting Canada's Medical Assistance in Dying Legislation (2017) (11)
From theory, to practice, to policy (2002) (11)
Bad News about Bad News: The Disclosure of Risks to Insurability in Research Consent Processes (2011) (11)
Assistance in dying: A comparative look at legal definitions (2021) (11)
Industry and the Academy: Conflicts of Interest in Contemporary Health Research (2002) (11)
The Limits of Altruism and Arbitrary Age Limits (2003) (11)
Organizational Ethics Canadian Style (2000) (10)
Pre-mortem transplantation optimizing interventions: the legal status of consent (2008) (10)
Foreseeably Unclear: The Meaning of the 'Reasonably Foreseeable' Criterion for Access to Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada (2018) (10)
Revisioning the oversight of research involving humans in Canada. (2004) (10)
The Tunnel at the End of the Light? A Critical Analysis of the Development of the Tri-Council Policy Statement (2011) (9)
An Alternative to Medical Assistance in Dying? The Legal Status of Voluntary Stopping Eating and Drinking (VSED) (2019) (9)
Safety First: Recognizing and Managing the Risks to Child Participants in Magnetic Resonance Imaging Research (2009) (9)
The Canadian Agency for the Oversight of Research Involving Humans: A Reform Proposal (2006) (9)
Shooting ourselves in the foot: why mandatory reporting of gunshot wounds is a bad idea (2004) (9)
Carter v. Canada: What’s next for physicians? (2015) (8)
The Tale of Assisted Human Reproduction Canada: A Tragedy in Five Acts (2013) (8)
Fake it till you make it: Policymaking and assisted human reproduction in Canada. (2014) (8)
The Power of Money: Commercialisation of Research Conducted in Public Institutions (2006) (8)
Medical Assistance in Dying: Lessons for Australia from Canada (2017) (8)
Let conscience be their guide? Conscientious refusals in health care. (2014) (8)
Final Report of the Royal Society of Canada Expert Panel: End-of-Life Decision-Making (2006) (7)
Brain death and brain life: rethinking the connection. (1990) (7)
Paediatric MRI Research Ethics: The Priority Issues (2007) (7)
Achieving national altruistic self-sufficiency in human eggs for third-party reproduction in Canada (2014) (6)
Why the Government of Canada Won't Regulate Assisted Human Reproduction: A Modern Mystery (2015) (6)
Assisted dying for prison populations: Lessons from and for abroad (2019) (6)
Permitting Voluntary Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Law Reform Pathways for Common Law Jurisdictions (2016) (6)
Child abuse and neglect: cross-cultural considerations (1997) (6)
Consent requirements for pelvic examinations performed for training purposes (2012) (6)
Restorative Justice, Euthanasia, and Assisted Suicide: A New Arena for Restorative Justice and a New Path for End of Life Law and Policy in Canada (2011) (5)
"Where there is a will, there may be a better way": legislating advance directives. (1992) (5)
From Prohibition to Permission: The Winding Road of Medical Assistance in Dying in Canada (2022) (5)
Moving Forward with a Clear Conscience: A Model Conscientious Objection Policy for Canadian Colleges of Physicians and Surgeons (2013) (5)
Independent inquiry. (2002) (5)
An ethical and criminal law framework for research involving children in Canada. (1993) (5)
Medical certificates of death: First principles and established practices provide answers to new questions (2016) (5)
Finding the Right Compass for Issue-Mapping in Neuroimaging (2005) (5)
And Miles to Go before I Sleep: The Future of End-of-Life Law and Policy in Canada (2016) (5)
Caveat emptor, venditor, et praescribor: legal liability associated with methyplenidate hydrochloride (MPH) use by postsecondary students. (2010) (4)
Watch Your Language: A Review of the Use of Stigmatizing Language by Canadian Judges (2010) (4)
Codes of ethics : ethics codes, standards and guidelines for professionals working in a health care setting in Canada (1992) (4)
Abortion care in Canada is decided between a woman and her doctor, without recourse to criminal law (2017) (4)
Editorial policy: industry funding and editorial independence (2006) (4)
Judicial reasoning about pregnancy and choice. (2012) (4)
A Constitutional Defence of the Federal Ban on Human Cloning for Research Purposes (2005) (4)
Cutting the Gordian Knot of Futility: A Case for Law Reform on Unilateral Withholding and Withdrawal of Potentially Life-Sustaining Treatment (2014) (4)
The contested lessons of euthanasia in The Netherlands. (2000) (4)
Social science and humanities evidence in Charter litigation (2018) (3)
Glass Houses: The Power of Money in Bioethics Research (2009) (3)
Undergraduate medical ethics education : a survey of Canadian medical schools (1990) (3)
Next Up: A Proposal for Values-Based Law Reform on Unilateral Withholding and Withdrawal of Potentially Life-Sustaining Treatment (2017) (3)
The Manitoba College of Physicians and Surgeons position statement on withholding and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment (2008): three problems and a solution. (2009) (3)
Editorial independence for CMAJ: signposts along the road (2006) (3)
Abortion: ensuring access [editorial] (2006) (3)
The Olivieri report (2015) (3)
Withholding and Withdrawing Potentially Life-Sustaining Treatment: Who Should Decide? (2017) (3)
Assisted Dying for Individuals with Dementia: Challenges for Translating Ethical Positions into Law (2015) (3)
Embodying Bioethics: Recent Feminist Advances (1999) (3)
Final Report of the Experts Committee for Human Research Participant Protection in Canada (2008) (3)
Protecting Human Research Subjects: A Jurisdictional Analysis (2003) (3)
Draft Provincial/Territorial Legislation to Implement a Regulatory Framework for Medically-Assisted Dying Consistent with Carter v. Canada (Attorney General) 2015 SCC 5 and the Final Report of the Provincial-Territorial Expert Advisory Group on Physician-Assisted Dying (2015) (3)
'...And the Learners Shall Inherit the Earth': Continuing Professional Development, Life Long Learning and Legal Ethics Education (2010) (3)
18. Grasping the Nettle: Confronting the Issue of Competing Interests and Obligations in Health Research Policy (2006) (3)
In defence of consent and capacity boards for end-of-life care (2014) (2)
Vitreal deposits in Val71Ala transthyretin amyloidosis (2012) (2)
The Legal Status of Deep and Continuous Palliative Sedation Without Artificial Nutrition and Hydration (2018) (2)
Refusing care as a legal pathway to medical assistance in dying (2019) (2)
Access to abortion (2007) (2)
A Case for Compulsory Legal Ethics Education in Canadian Law Schools (1997) (2)
Feminist health care ethics consultation (1993) (2)
Reproductive Choice in Canadian Courts: An Evidence-Based Call for a Move to Relational Autonomy (2009) (2)
Does Legalization of Medical Assistance in Dying Affect Rates of Non-Assisted Suicide? (2017) (2)
The Golden Proportion (2011) (2)
Mandatory reporting of gunshot wounds: rebuttal (2004) (2)
'Are Law Schools Amoral Boot Camps?': Two Legal Ethicists Beg to Differ with a Controversial Book- Review of Lawyers Gone Bad: Money, Sex and Madness in Canada’s Legal Profession by Philip Slayton (2008) (1)
The biology of the persistent vegetative state: legal, ethical, and philosophical implications for transplantation. (1990) (1)
A Test for Freedom of Conscience under the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms: Regulating and Litigating Conscientious Refusals in Health Care (2017) (1)
Incidental Findings and the Minimal Risk Standard in Pediatric Neuroimaging Research. (2015) (1)
Reflecting on governance for CMAJ (2006) (1)
Patient safety law: From silos to systems - Final Report (2006) (1)
Confusion worse confounded. British Medical Journal [Rapid Response: Withdrawal of clinical trials policy by Canadian research institute is a “lost opportunity for increased transparency” by Ann Silversides. British Medical Journal 2011;342:d2570]. (2011) (1)
Attitudes toward withholding antibiotics from people with dementia lacking decisional capacity: findings from a survey of Canadian stakeholders (2021) (1)
Prosecutorial Guidelines for Voluntary Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Autonomy, Public Confidence and High Quality Decision-Making (2012) (1)
Confusion Worse Confounded: A Comment on 'Withdrawl of Clinical Trials Policy by Canadian Research Institute is a 'Lost Opportunity for Increased Transparency' (2011) (1)
Promises and perils of cognitive performance tools: A dialogue (2008) (1)
The Tunnel at the End of the Light? Development of the Tri Council Policy Statement in Canada (2016) (1)
Community-based research ethics roundtable report DRAFT (2013) (1)
Health care ethics experts in Canadian courts. (2001) (1)
A Computer-Assisted Legal Research and Writing Course (1998) (1)
A Conflict by Any Other Name Would Smell as Foul: A Comment on the Appointment of a Vice-President of Pfizer to the CIHR Governing Council (2010) (1)
Taking Responsibility: Mandatory Legal Ethics in Canadian Law Schools (2007) (1)
Prosecutorial Discretion in Assisted Dying in Canada: A Proposal for Charging Guidelines (2012) (1)
Unfinished Business: Ongoing Ethical Exceptionalism in the Oversight of Human Pluripotent Stem Cell Research in Canada (2012) (1)
Time to clarify Canada's medical assistance in dying law. (2018) (1)
Information/Consent/Authorization for Minors' Participation in Research (1999) (1)
End-of-Life Care for Federally Incarcerated Individuals in Canada (2020) (1)
Approaches to the Teaching of Bioethics to Bioscience Students (2021) (0)
Appendix: Active Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide Crown Counsel Policy Manual, Province of British Columbia (2004) (0)
7. A Legal Regime for the Withholding and Withdrawal of Potentially Life-Sustaining Treatment from Competent Individuals (2004) (0)
Informal care-givers' attitudes towards medical assistance in dying for persons with dementia (2022) (0)
Teaching 'Professionalism in the Public Interest': Law as a Case Study (2014) (0)
Comparative and Critical Analysis of Key Eligibility Criteria for Voluntary Assisted Dying under Five Legal Frameworks (2021) (0)
Will the Brain Ever Take the Stand? Canadian Law and the Admissibility of Neurotechnology Lie Detection Evidence (2010) (0)
Draft Federal Legislation to Amend the Criminal Code to Be Consistent with Carter v. Canada (Attorney General) 2015 SCC 5 and the Final Report of the Provincial-Territorial Expert Advisory Group on Physician-Assisted Dying (2015) (0)
Country Report Canada (2000) (0)
The Great Canadian Lawyer: A Manifesto, eh? (2012) (0)
12. The Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms (2004) (0)
"Confusion worse confounded" [1] (2017) (0)
A Conversation about Assisted Dying: What the law has to say (2015) (0)
Fitness for Purpose: Mandatory Continuing Legal Ethics Education for Lawyers (2009) (0)
After Carter v. Canada (2015) (0)
Integrating Bioethics and Health Law Into the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (1999) (0)
Issues of the ends of life (2013) (0)
1. The Withholding and Withdrawal of Potentially Life-Sustaining Treatment from Competent Persons (2004) (0)
Assisted dying and evidence-based law-making: a critical analysis of an article's role in New Zealand's referendum. (2020) (0)
2. The Provision of Potentially Life-Shortening Palliative Treatment (2004) (0)
Canadian Parliament Must Act on Assisted Human Reproduction (2010) (0)
Dr. Cézanne and the Art of Re(peat)search: Competing Interests and Obligations in Clinical Research (2010) (0)
Attitudes toward withholding antibiotics from people with dementia lacking decisional capacity: findings from a survey of Canadian stakeholders (2021) (0)
The authors respond (2012) (0)
Why Feminist Philosophy (Especially Sue Sherwin’s) Matters: Reflections through the Lens of Medical Assistance in Dying (2020) (0)
Who is Eligible for Voluntary Assisted Dying: Nine Medical Conditions Assessed against Five Legal Frameworks (2022) (0)
Where There’s Smoke, There’s Pfizer (2018) (0)
Sentence: education in ethics. (1993) (0)
Egregious inaction: five years later after Of Life and Death. (2000) (0)
The olivieri case: Lessons for Australasia (2005) (0)
Recent Articles (2017) (0)
5. The Values (2004) (0)
Recent Articles (2013) (0)
8. Unsustainable Distinctions (2004) (0)
Recent Articles (2017) (0)
Notes on Contributors (2000) (0)
Neuroethics- Are Brains Better? (2008) (0)
9. Inconsistencies across Categories of Assisted Death (2004) (0)
Being Relational: Reflections on Relational Theory & Health Law (2011) (0)
Medicine. Clinical trials and industry. (2002) (0)
Recent Articles (2017) (0)
Bibliographical Notes (1977) (0)
Drilling down in neuroethics. (2009) (0)
11. Slippery Slope Arguments (2004) (0)
CLS volume 26 issue 1 Cover and Front matter (2011) (0)
Public Interest Vocationalism: A Way Forward for Legal Education in Canada (2014) (0)
6. Resolution of Conflicts among Values (2004) (0)
Template Policy Re: Access to Medical Assistance in Dying in Publicly-Funded Institutions (2018) (0)
10. Invalid Arguments (2004) (0)
3. Assisted Suicide (2004) (0)
Inadmissible, Eh? (2007) (0)
Recent Articles (2017) (0)
Problematic Principles: The CMA on Public/Private Health Care (2006) (0)
Recent Articles (2017) (0)
Teaching 'Public Interest Vocationalism': Law as a Case Study (2015) (0)
"Speak Up, We Can't Hear You". (2014) (0)
International Perspectives on Reforming End-of-Life Law (2021) (0)
Egregious Inaction: Five Years after 'Of Life and Death' (2000) (0)
The Path from Rodriguez to Bill C-14 and Beyond (2021) (0)
Mandatory Legal Education is a Step in the Right Direction (2008) (0)
Comptes rendus / Reviews of books: Dying, Yet We Live: Our Response to the Spiritual Needs of the Dying Paul Chidwick Toronto: Anglican Book Centre, 1988. 110 p (1990) (0)
The Making of a Myth: Unreliable Data on Access to Palliative Care in Canada (2014) (0)

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