1. “Should the Grandparents Die?”: Allocation of Medical Resources with an Aging Population

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R.S.Q. c. S-5, sec. 4.

Canada Health Act S.C. 1984 c. 6, sec. 7.

See, e.g., the recently enacted Act to Revise the Family Law Reform Act, S.O. 1986 c. 4, sec. 32.

Howe , supra note 3, at 16, citing D. Well, M. Sheehan, The Allocation of Medical Resources, paper presented at the Conference on Distributive Justice and the Australian Medical Care System, Monash University, Australia, 1983.

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Pellegrino, supra note 9.

See C. Fried, Medical Experimentation, Personal Integrity and Social Policy (Amsterdam: North Holland Publishing Co., 1974) at 107 et seq.

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Id. at 26.

For an excellent discussion of this topic, see J. Katz, The Silent World of Doctor and Patient (New York: Free Press, 1984).