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Real Rights and Plausible Efficiencies: Reply to John Russell

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 April 2010

John Dixon
Affiliation:
Capilano College

Abstract

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Type
Intervention
Copyright
Copyright © Canadian Philosophical Association 1991

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References

Notes

1 Dixon, John, Catastrophic Rights: Experimental Drugs and AIDS (Vancouver: New Star Press, 1990)Google Scholar. For a condensed version of the argument, see “Catastrophic Rights: Vital Public Interests and Civil Rights in Conflict,” in Overall, Christine and Zion, William P., eds., Perspectives On AIDS: Ethical and Social Issues (Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1991).Google Scholar

2 Hon. MacDonald, David Chairperson, Confronting a Crisis: Report of the Parliamentary Ad Hoc Committee on AIDS (Library of Parliament, June 1990).Google Scholar

3 Schechter, Martin T., Open Arms and Alternative Trial Designs / Essais à option libre et autres plans d'essais cliniques (Ottawa: Health and Welfare Canada, 1990)Google Scholar. Available from the Minister of Supply and Services Canada, Catalogue No. H42–2/39–1990.

4 Russell, John, “Access to Experimental Therapies and AIDS,” Dialogue 30, 3 (1991): 399418. Page references that appear in the text are to this work.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

5 Russell informed me in correspondence that he has lobbied the Assistant Deputy Minister in charge of Canada's regulatory authority, providing him with a draft of his Dialogue article, and urging on him the view that any recognition of catastrophic rights would be an error.

6 Dixon, Catastophic Rights, p. 37.

7 R. v. Oakes, [1986] 1 S.C.R. 103.