ISD II – Women’s Health

Ethics/Humanities/Health Law

Fri., Feb. 14, 2003

9:30 – 11 a.m.

This package contains:

• A 2003 column from the Globe and Mail by Timothy Caulfield
• A 2002 release from Health Canada regarding the Assisted Human Reproduction Act
• A 2001 article on Assisted Reproductive Technologies from the CMAJ’s series Bioethics for Clinicians
• An excerpt from the Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies’ 1993 report Proceed with Care that discusses “The Retrieval and Use of Human Ova”

For this session, you should also read “The Virgin and the Petri Dish” by Richard Selzer. This can be found in section 10 of the blue Ethics/Humanities/Health Law Foundations book you were given at the start of your first year

Learning Objectives

In this session you will:

• Consider the provisions of the Assisted Human Reproduction Act (a bill that is currently before the Canadian House of Commons)
• Consider what policies, if any, should be put in place regarding the retrieval and use of human ova, sperm and embryos
• Consider the idea of women’s health as a medical discipline

Article Summaries

• Article summaries will be accepted until Monday, Feb. 17, 2003.
• Your article summary for the Women’s Health unit may be based on a reading from either this set of readings or the readings for the previous session. However, you may not submit a summary of the Health Canada release contained in this package as this piece is brief enough already.