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- Title
Newfound Aboriginal Right to Pursue Traditional Medicine.
- Authors
Shehata, Adam M.
- Abstract
This article discusses the newfound aboriginal right to pursue traditional medicine. A 2014 Ontario court decision relating to J.J., an 11-year-old First Nations girl with leukemia, is analyzed. The events leading up to the court case are followed by a description and analysis of the court's decision. The court found, for the first time in Canada, that there is an aboriginal right to pursue traditional medicine on behalf of a child, despite the medical evidence that chemotherapy would almost certainly result in remission while the absence of chemotherapy would almost certainly result in death. This article concludes that the case provides limited guidance for those that find themselves in similar situations in the future, and demonstrates the need for collaborative problem solving when making treatment decisions for children, perhaps through the use of mediators or ethicists.
- Subjects
ONTARIO; TUMOR treatment; ALTERNATIVE medicine; CANCER chemotherapy; CANCER relapse; COURTS; LEGAL status of indigenous peoples; TRADITIONAL medicine; TUMORS; PATIENTS' rights
- Publication
University of Toronto Medical Journal, 2016, Vol 94, Issue 1, p38
- ISSN
0833-2207
- Publication type
Article