Oral Presentation

Sam Boyle1 1 TC Beirne School of Law, University of Queensland, St Lucia, QLD 4072, s.boyle@law.uq.edu.au In order to investigate how courts and tribunals determine capacity, a case study was done in Queensland. The study compared capacity decisions by courts...

Dr Tsung-ling Lee1 1Research Fellow, Centre for Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore One key challenge in the regulation of regenerative medicines and cell-based therapies is balancing the demands for early access to innovative treatments with the need for robust...

Tereza Hendl1, Cameron Stewart 2, Megan Munsie3, Ian Kerridge4 1 Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, Medical Foundation Building, University of Sydney, NSW, 2006, Australia, Tereza.hendl@sydney.edu.au 2 Sydney Law School, New Law Building, University of Sydney, NSW,...

Associate Professor Tracey Evans Chan 1 1 Faculty of Law, National University of Singapore, 469G Bukit Timah Road, Eu Tong Sen Building, Singapore 259776 Innovative treatments in medicine have been the subject of ethical and regulatory debate. Within the past...

Belinda Bennett1 1 Australian Centre for Health Law Research, School of Law, Queensland University of Technology (QUT), GPO Box 2434, Brisbane, QLD, 4001, belinda.bennett@qut.edu.au With ageing populations in many countries around the world, dementia has emerged as a significant social...

Gruner,John1, 1 Monash Centre for Human Bioethics, Menzies Building, 20 Chancellors Walk, Monash University VIC 3800, Australia. As a doctor, I have cared for patients who choose futile care over effective care, and die. Just as doctors ought to assist patients...

Georgina  Hall1 1 The Royal Children’s Hospital Melbourne Five years ago in Victoria, eligibility for Assisted Reproductive Treatment (ART) was broadened to include anybody seeking treatment- regardless of whether their infertility was for ‘social’ or medical reasons. Coupled with substantial...

Grant Gillett1 1 Otago University   Patients with severe head injury are a challenge to our moral sensibility as much as to our clinical skills of neuro-rehabilitation. They implicitly demand to be recognised before we can even begin to act...

Sascha Callaghan1, Giles Newton-Howes2 1 Faculty of Law, University of Sydney NSW 2006, Sascha.callaghan@sydney.edu.au 2 Department of Psychological Medicine, University of Otago, Wellington, New Zealand. COMMUNITY TREATMENT ORDERS (CTOs) emerged as an alternative to involuntary inpatient treatment for mental illness...

Mary Anne Bobinski1 1 Allard School of Law, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC Canada V6T1Z1 It is often said that health care has moved from paternalism, in the form of “doctor knows best,” to consumerism, in which patients expect...