Dr Lisa Dive1, Dr Edwina Light1, Miriam Wiersma1, Prof Ian Kerridge1, A/Prof Wendy Lipworth1 1University Of Sydney, University Of Sydney, Australia Biobanks are increasingly being linked together into networks in order to maximise their capacity to identify causes of and...
- June 13, 2018
Jane Williams1, Christopher Mayes1, Wendy Lipworth1 1 Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, Medical Foundation Building (K25) University of Sydney, NSW 2006 Australia Successful research is increasingly characterised as that which has ‘impact’, engages with stakeholders, and...
- September 23, 2016
Sumytra Menon1 1 Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore The conduct of human biomedical research will enter a new phase as Singapore transitions from advisory guidelines to legal regulation. The Human Biomedical...
- September 22, 2016
Angela Ballantyne1, 1 Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice, University of Otago, Wellington New Zealand, angela.ballantyne@otago.ac.nz Medical knowledge is a ‘public good’ because, according to accepted economic theory, it is “non-rivalrous” and “non-excludable”[1] – one individual can consume...
- September 22, 2016
David Hunter, Associate Professor of Medical Ethics1 1 Flinders University, Bedford park Campus, Adelaide, South Australia, david.hunter@flinders.edu.au Exploitation is a commonly dismissed issue in the bioethics literature. This is because that literature focuses (unfortunately almost exclusively) on autonomy and threats...
- September 22, 2016
Prof Rachel A. Ankeny1 and Dr Heather J. Bray2 1 School of Humanities, University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005 SA, Australia, email: rachel.ankeny@adelaide.edu.au 2 School of Humanities, University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005 SA, Australia, email: heather.bray@adelaide.edu.au The increased emphasis on industry...
- September 22, 2016
Joanna Manning1 1 Faculty of Law, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand Because of the extreme difficulty of proving sponsor and/or investigator negligence and a causal link between any such negligence and participant injury, there is...
- September 22, 2016