Dr Rebekah McWhirter1 1Deakin University, Geelong, Australia To optimise public health benefits, vaccination needs to be taken up by a very high proportion of the population. When this cannot be achieved through voluntary means, mandatory policies based on incentives or...
- July 12, 2021
Ms Kristina Chelberg1 1ACHLR, QUT, Brisbane, Australia This paper argues that ‘brain health advice’, a recurrent theme in Australian aged-care discourse, constructs a moral framework of self-responsibility for cognitive health in older age and renders the state of the ageing...
- July 12, 2021
Associate Professor Taylor-Sands/Michelle Taylor-sands1, Dr Georgina Dimopoulos2 1Melbourne Law School, Parkville, Australia, 2Swinburne Law School, Hawthorn, Australia In Re Imogen [No 6] (2020) 61 Fam LR 344, the Family Court of Australia held that where a parent of an adolescent...
- July 12, 2021
Professor Cameron Stewart1 1Sydney Health Law, Australia Advances in intensive care have made it possible for brain dead pregnant women to be provided with somatic support to enable their fetuses to gestate to the point where they can survive being...
- July 12, 2021
Julia Duffy1 1QUT Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Brisbane, Australia Traditional liberal theory has founded personhood on autonomy as rationality and independence, so that adults with cognitive disability lie outside the bounds of moral personhood. The UN Committee on...
- July 12, 2021