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*Call for Abstracts for a Panel on ‘Physician-Assisted Dying’ at the CLSA
Meeting 2016*
Dear colleagues,
I’m soliciting abstracts for a panel that I’m organizing for the 2016
annual meeting of the Canadian Law and Society Association (CLSA), May 28 –
30, in Calgary, Alberta. The theme of the panel is ‘physician-assisted
dying’ (medical aid in dying, death with dignity, euthanasia,
physician-assisted suicide).
The past five years have seen unprecedented amount of social and political
movement with regards to physician-assisted dying. In Canada, the case
of *Carter
v. Canada *decriminalized the practice in February 2015. In June 2014, the
Quebec government passed *An Act Respecting End-of-Life Care*, legalizing
‘medical aid in dying.’ In the US, California and Vermont joined Oregon and
Washington as four states to have implemented a physician-assisted suicide
(or death with dignity) regime, in 2015 and 2013 respectively. In 2014,
Belgium legalized euthanasia for minors. These events provide us with an
opportunity to take a fresh look at the issue of physician-assisted dying.
For this panel, I’m interested in assembling together papers that analyze
physician-assisted dying from a contemporary, rather than historical,
perspective and that use original empirical data rather than uniquely
conceptual or theoretical papers. The language of the panel is English.
If you are interested to be part of this panel, please email me your
abstract directly at [log in to unmask] by *January 15, 2016*. The
deadline for panel proposal submission to the conference organizer is
January 30, 2016. Abstract should be 250-word long and include a title.
Papers should make original contributions to law and society scholarship
although, of course, interdisciplinary approaches (with medical sociology
or anthropology, for example) are most welcome and encouraged. I will
review the abstracts and choose the ones that would make the most
thematically coherent panel as well as those that best fit the criteria
specified here. Please note that should your abstract be chosen, the
conference organizer also requires a one-page CV. For more information
about the conference, see http://www.acds-clsa.org/?q=in-the-news.
Thank you,
Hadi Karsoho
McGill University
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