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Dr Michael Chapman1,2, Prof Jennifer  Philip3,4,5, Prof Paul Komesaroff6 1Canberra Hospital, Department of Palliative Care, Woden, Australia, 2ANU Medical School, Canberra, Australia, 3Melbourne University, Department of Medicine, Parkville, Australia, 4St Vincent’s Hospital Department of Palliative Care, Fitzroy, Australia, 5Victorian Comprehensive...

Dr Cynthia Forlini1, Dr George Skowronski1,2, Dr Michael O’Leary3,4, Prof Ian Kerridge1,5 1Sydney Health Ethics, The University Of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia, 2Intensive Care Unit, St. George Private Hospital, Sydney, Australia, 3New South Wales Organ and Tissue Donation Service, Sydney, Australia,...

Eliana Close1, Malcolm Parker, Andrew Crowden, Lindy Willmott, Benjamin P White, Cindy Gallois, Nick Graves, Sarah Winch, Leonie Callaway 1Australian Centre For Health Law Research, QUT Faculty of Law, Brisbane, Australia Context: Due to advances in medical technology, up to two-thirds...

Selina Metternick-jones1 1South Metropolitan Health Service , Perth , Australia The integration of reproductive genetic testing into clinical care presents both opportunities and challenges to parents in regards to shaping the lives of their future children. Increased access to reproductive...

A/Prof. Paul Macneill1 1University Of Sydney, Sydney Health Ethics, SYDNEY, Australia If that’s all there is my friends, then let’s keep dancing Let’s break out the booze and have a ball If that’s all there is. Peggy Lee Peggy’s many...

Karel Caals1 1Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore Globalisation debates in health often pit global health against national health systems. Some argue that (ill) health does not stop at borders: “viruses...

Dr John Lantos1 1Childeren’s Mercy Hospital, Kansas City, Mo, United States In 2014, Francis Collins, head of the NIH, proposed sequencing every baby’s genome to “shape a lifetime of personalized strategies for disease prevention, detection and treatment.” Many scientists endorse...

A/Prof. Ainsley Newson1 1Sydney Health Ethics, University Of Sydney, University Of Sydney, Australia In May 2018, the Australian government announced a significant investment in health genomics: $500m over 10 years for an Australian Genomics Health Mission. The first project within...

A/Prof. Catherine Mills1 1Monash University, Wellington Road, Australia Internationally, the consumption of alcohol during pregnancy is recognized as a significant public health concern, since alcohol is known to have teratogenic effects on the developing fetus. Indeed, prenatal alcohol exposure is...

Anson Fehross1 1University Of Sydney, Sydney Health Ethics, Camperdown, Australia In Life’s Dominion, Ronald Dworkin provides the example of Margo. In the early stages of dementia, Margo arranged an advance directive instructing no intervention beyond comfort care once the disease...