Oral Presentation

Monique Jonas1 1 School of Population Health, University of Auckland, Private Bag 9201 Auckland, New Zealand In many jurisdictions, the state funds and/or provides child health advice. Advice is characterised by its discretionary quality: unlike laws or directives, recipients are...

Sandra L Bradley1 1 ACD Consultant, Adelaide, South Australia, 5041, sandrabradley2@bigpond.com In South Australia there is a new Advance Care Directive Form. There was an intensive exercise in educating clinicians and hospital systems in the acceptance and implementation of these...

Paula O’Brien1 1 Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne, 185 Pelham Street, Carlton, VIC, 3053, obrienpl@unimelb.edu.au The Australian Government retains foreign governments and private corporations to provide health care to asylum seekers in off-shore detention on Nauru and Manus...

Selina Metternick-Jones1 1 University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia smet8870@uni.sydney.edu.au Biomedicine and society have a particularly tense relationship, with medicine often challenging established moral norms. This complicated relationship is explored by analysing the ethical and regulatory perspectives surrounding...

Janine McIlwraith1 1 Slater & Gordon Lawyers, 485 La Trobe Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, janine.mcilwraith@slatergordon.com.au Edgar Allen Poe wrote “The boundaries which divide Life and Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and...

Julian J. Koplin1 1 Centre for Human Bioethics, Menzies Building, 20 Chancellors Walk, Monash University VIC 3800, julian.koplin@monash.edu The question of whether we should allow the sale of ‘contested commodities’ such as organs, sex, gametes, and surrogacy services is of enduring interest within bioethics....

Rebacca Y X Tock1 1 Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Sydney Australia Email: rebacca.tock@gmail.com Alistair Campbell claims, “the body is of central concern to most people’s understanding of the moral issues raised by modern biomedicine and modern medical...

Kate Robins-Browne1, Nancy Sturman2, Kelsey Hegarty3, Christopher Dowrick4, Victoria Palmer5 1 Department of General Practice, Melbourne Medical School, The University of Melbourne, 200 Berkeley St, Carlton, Vic, 3053, k.robinsbrowne@unimelb.edu.au 2 University of Queensland Medical School; 288 Herston Road, Herston, Qld,...

Kate Robins-Browne1, Nancy Sturman2, Kelsey Hegarty3, Christopher Dowrick4, Victoria Palmer5 1 Department of General Practice, Melbourne Medical School, The University of Melbourne, 200 Berkeley St, Carlton, Vic, 3053, k.robinsbrowne@unimelb.edu.au 2 University of Queensland Medical School; 288 Herston Road, Herston, Qld,...

Justin Oakley1 1 Centre for Human Bioethics, Monash University, Victoria 3800. justin.oakley@monash.edu Several philosophers have recently developed accounts of virtue ethics which are more empirically-informed than previous versions of this approach. In doing so, they have argued for a comprehensive...