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ANTH 400: Health Care Law for Health and Human Services Professionals (Rev. C4)
ANTH 400: Health Care Law for Health and Human Services Professionals (Rev. C4)
This is a senior three-credit course that examines major principles and issues in Canadian health law. Health law is a rapidly growing field of study, research and education. Health and human service professionals are seeing it as increasingly relevant to clinical practice and to policy-making. Distinctive characteristics of Canadian health law and health policy are frequently misunderstood or confused with the American context.
Unit 1
Unit 2
Required Readings
Canada Health Act
Hamilton Health Sciences Corp. v. H. D, [2014] ONCJ 603 (CanLII).
Schneider v. The Queen, [1982] 2SCR 112, CanLII 26 (SCC)
Suggested Readings
Romanow, R.J. (2012, 25 June). Envisioning the future of Medicare [Keynote address; video file]. Toronto: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
Samborski, I. (2016) Daniels v. Canada: Out of the wasteland, into the fray . CanLII Connects.
Romanow, R.J. (2002). Building on values: The future of health care in Canada – Final Report . Saskatoon: Commission on the Future of Health Care in Canada.
Robbins, J.A., & Dewar, J. (2011). Traditional Indigenous approaches to healing and the modern welfare of traditional knowledge, spirituality and lands: A critical reflection on practices and policies taken from the Canadian Indigenous example. International Indigenous Policy Journal, 4 (2), 1-17.
Unit 3
Required Readings
Montgomery, M. (2016, 6 September). Major case: Canada’s public health system on trial. [Interview with Lynes-Ford, A.; video file]. Radio Canada International.
Montgomery, M. (2016, 6 September). Major case: Canada’s public health system on trial. [Interview with Flood, C.; video file]. Radio Canada International.
Suggested Readings
Government of Canada. (n.d.). Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms .
Manfredi, Ch. P. & Maioni, A. (2002). Courts and health policy: Judicial policy making and publicly funded health care in Canada. Journal of Health Politics Policy Law, 27 (2), 213-240.
Novak, J. D., & Cañas, A. J. (2008). The theory underlying concept maps and how to construct and use them. Technical Report IHMC CmapTools (pp. 1- 14). Florida: Institute for Human and Machine Cognition. http://cmap.ihmc.us/Publications/ResearchPapers/TheoryUnderlyingConceptMaps
Government of Canada. (2017). Your Guide to the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms.
Unit 4
Suggested Readings
Priest, M. (1997-98). The privatization of regulation: Five models of self-regulation. Ottawa Law Review, 29 (2), 233-302.
Regulated Health Professions Act (Ontario). S.O. 1991, c. 18.
The Social Work Professions Act (Manitoba) C.C.S.M. 2014 c. 169.
Manitoba College of Social Workers website (n.d.). Self-regulationand Legislation
Adams, T.L, (2016). Professional self-regulation and the public interest in Canada.
Professions and Professionalism, 6(3).
Professions and Professionalism, 6(3).
Collier, R. (2012). Professionalism: The privilege and burden of self-regulation. CMAJ JAMC , 184(14), 1559-1560.
Khaliq, A.A., Mhachofi, A.K. & Broyles, R. W. (2010). Physician autonomy vs. self-regulation: You can’t have one without the other. Ethics & Medicine: An international Journal of Bioethics, 26(2), 111-120.
Robbins, J.A., & Dewar, J. (2011). Traditional Indigenous approaches to healing and the modern welfare of traditional knowledge, spirituality and lands: A critical reflection on practices and policies taken from the Canadian Indigenous example. International Indigenous Policy Journal, 4 (2), 1-17.
Unit 5
Required Readings
Saadati V. Moorhead, [2017], S.C.R. 543, CanLII 28 (SCC)
Goldman, B. (2011, November). Doctors make mistakes. Can we talk about this? [Video file].
Suggested Readings
Gibson, E. (2016). Is it time to adopt a no-fault scheme to compensate injuried patients? Ottawa L.Rev. 47(2), 303-338.
Flood, C.M. & Thomas, B. (2011). Canadian medical malpractice law in 2011: Missing the mark on patient safety. Chicago-Kent Law Review 86 (3), 1053- 1092.
Martland, J. (2009). Healthcare and the law: A view from the bar. Healthcare Quarterly, 12 , e195-e198.
Nelson, E. L. (2016). Prenatal harm and the duty of care. Alberta Law Review 53(4), 933-953.
Unit 6
Suggested Readings
Burningham, S., Rachul, Ch. & Caulfield, T. (2013). Informed consent and patient comprehension: The law and the evidence. McGill Journal of Law and Health, 7(1), 123-128.
Cojocaru (Guardian ad litem of) v. British Columbia Women’s Hospital and Health Centre, [2009] B.C.J. no 731, 65 C.C.L.T. (3rd) (B.C.S.C) affd [2013] S.C.J. no 3-, [2013] 2 S.C.R. 357 (SCC).
The Canadian Medical Protection Association. (June 2016). Consent: A guide for Canadian physicians.
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (2014, July). Vascular Access for Hemodialysis. National Institutes of Health. USA.gov.
Unit 7
Unit 8
Required Readings
Butler, M. & Tiedemann. (2015). Carter v. Canada: The Supreme Court of Canada’s Decision on Assisted Dying (Background Paper). Ottawa: Library of Parliament.
Milne, V. (August 20, 2017). The twenty year battle for medically-assisted death legalisation in Canada. CBC News.
Suggested Readings
Guichon, J., Mohamed F., Clarke, K. & Mitchell, I. (2017). Autonomy and beneficence in assisted dying in Canada: the eligibility of mature minors. Alberta Law Review 54(3), pp. 775-802.
McKenna, K. (February 22, 2017). Renewed calls to review assisted death rules after Montreal man charged with murdering wife. CBC News .
Stone, L. & Fine, S. (June 27, 2016, updated March 24, 2017). B.C. woman, rights group file legal challenge against assisted dying-law. The Globe and Mail .
Young, H. (2015). Cuthbertson v. Rasouli : Continued confusion over consent-based entitlements to life support. Alberta Law Review 52(3), pp. 745-759.
Unit 9
Required Readings
Assisted Human Reproduction Act , S.C. 2004, c. 2.
Suggested Readings
Cattapan, A. (2014). Risky business: Surrogacy, egg donation, and the politics of exploitation. Canadian Journal of Law & Society , 29(3), 361-379.
Deckha, M. (2012). Legislating respect: A pro-choice feminist analysis of embryo research restrictions in Canada. McGill Law Journal, 58, 199-236.
Abortion rights: Significant moments in Canadian history (posted January 19, 2009, last updated, May 27, 2017) CBC News.
Health Link BC (March 16, 2017).
Nair, R. (February 13, 2017). Advocates say in-vitro fertilization should be publically funded in B.C. CBC News .
Unit 10
Suggested Readings
C.(C.) v. W. (A.), (2005) ABQB 290 (CanLII).
Gruben, H. & White, P. (September 28, 2016). Surrogacy in Canada should give us cause for concern. Globe and Mail .
Gruben, V. & Cameron, A. (2017). Donor anonymity in Canada: Assessing the obstacles to openness and considering a way forward. Alberta Law Review, 54(3), 665-680.
J.C.M. v. A.N.A., (2012) BCSC 584 (CanLII)
Nelson, E. (2010). Alberta’s new organ and tissue donation law: The human tissue and organ donation act. Health Law Review, 18(2) , 5-14.
Von Tigerstrom, B. (2015). Human tissue legislation and a new medical paradigm: Governing tissues engineering in Canada. McGill Journal of Law & Health, 8(2), S1-S56.
D.J. Willison & S.M. MacLeod, “Patenting of Genetic Material: Are the Benefits to Society Being Realized?” CMAJ 6 Aug. 2002 167(3): 259-62, online: CMAJ
Unit 11
