Acknowledgments
Introduction
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Part One: Constitutional and Administrative Law Challenges
to the Boundaries of Medicare
- What Is In and Out of Medicare? Who Decides?
COLLEEN M. FLOOD, CAROLYN TUOHY, and MARK STABILE - Charter Challenges and Evidence-Based Decision-Making in the Health Care System: Towards a
Symbiotic Relationship
DONNA GRESCHNER - Misdiagnosis or Cure? Charter Review of the Health Care System
MARTHA JACKMAN - Claiming Equity and Justice in Health: The Role of the South African Right to Health in Ensuring Access to HIV/AIDS Treatment
LISA FORMAN
Part Two: Access to Abortion and Reproductive Health Services
- Abortion Denied: Bearing the Limits of Law
SANDA RODGERS - Protecting Fairness in Women’s Health: The Case of Emergency Contraception
JOANNA N. ERDMAN and REBECCA J. COOK - Achieving Reproductive Rights: Access to Emergency Oral Contraception and Abortion in Quebec
ROBERT P. KOURI
Part Three: Access for the Vulnerable: Case Studies from Aboriginal Health and Mental Health
- Jurisdictional Roulette: Constitutional and Structural Barriers to Aboriginal Access to Health
CONSTANCE MACINTOSH - The Rural Aboriginal Health Gap: The Romanow Solutions?
JANESCA KYDD - Access to Treatment of Serious Mental Illness: Enabling Choice or Enabling Treatment?
SHEILA WILDEMAN
Part Four: Rationing Access: The Role of the Physician Gatekeeper
- The Legal Regulation of Referral Incentives: Physician Kickbacks and Physician Self-Referral
SUJIT CHOUDHRY, NITEESH K. CHOUDHRY,
and ADALSTEINN D. BROWN - The Costs of Avoiding Physician Conflicts of Interest: A Cautionary Tale of Gainsharing Regulation
RICHARD S. SAVER
Part Five: Free Trade Agreements: Strengthening or Undermining
Access to Health Care?
- The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights and Its Implications for Health Care
ROXANNE MYKITIUK and MICHELLE DAGNINO - Patient Mobility in the European Union
ANDRÉ DEN EXTER
Part Six: Manufacturing Demand for Access: The Role of
the Media and the Commercialization of Research
- The Power of Illusion and the Illusion of Power: Direct-to-Consumer Advertising and Canadian Health Care
PATRICIA PEPPIN - The Media, Marketing, and Genetic Services
TIMOTHY CAULFIELD - Commercialized Medical Research and the Need for Regulatory Reform
TRUDO LEMMENS - Grasping the Nettle: Confronting the Issue of Competing Interests and Obligations in Health Research Policy
JOCELYN DOWNIE
Conclusion
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Contributors