Oral Presentation

Christopher Mayes1 1 Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, 92-94 Parramatta Rd, University of Sydney, NSW, 2006. christopher.mayes@sydney.edu.au Australian and New Zealand bioethics is often assumed to share a similar history to American or British bioethics. Yet...

Jon Jureidini1 1 Critical & Ethical Mental Health Research Group, University of Adelaide, 55 King William Rd, North Adelaide, 5006. jon.jureidini@sa.gov.au There is increasing acknowledgment that contrarian views in a range of scientific fields are less likely to be published,...

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...

Merle Spriggs1, Lynn Gillam2 1 Children’s Bioethics Centre, Royal Children’s Hospital / University of Melbourne, Flemington Road, Parkville, Victoria, 3052, merle.spriggs@mcri.edu.au 2 Children’s Bioethics Centre, Royal Children’s Hospital / University of Melbourne, Flemington Road, Parkville, Victoria, 3052 l.gillam@unimelb.edu.au Labioplasty is...

Zohar Lederman1 1 Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119077. zoharlederman@gmail.com In 2015, the Israeli Knesset passed the Force-Feeding Act that permits the director of the Israeli Prison Authority to appeal...

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...

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...

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...

Ben Gray1, 1 Otago University Wellington 23a Mein Street Newtown Wellington 6021 New Zealand  ben.gray@otago.ac.nz Recent issues of the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry have had several papers discussing the ethics of homeopathy. In this presentation I will argue that asking...

Anson Fehross1 1 Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, The University of Sydney, Level 1, Medical Foundation Building K25, NSW, 2006, anson.fehross@sydney.edu.au In recent years advance directives have been increasingly emphasised, in part due to a rise...