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Jessica Young1, Dr Janine Penfield Winters1, Associate Professor Chrystal Jaye2, Dr Richard Egan, Mr Tony Egan2 1Bioethics Center, University Of Otago, North Dunedin, Dunedin, New Zealand; 2Dunedin School of Medicine, University of Otago Euthanasia is currently a topic of wide...

Julie Letts1 1Lettsconsulting, Sydney, Australia “Intimacy – a place for solace, privacy, confiding, telling and retelling one’s story – is the lathe upon which the challenge of death can be answered.”(1)  This is even more poignantly so when the ageing,...

A/Prof. Tamra Lysaght1 1National University Of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore In recent years, a global industry has emerged selling products and services marketed as stem cells direct-to-the-consumer (DTC) for the treatment of serious diseases and medical conditions. These products are typically...

A/Prof. Bernadette Richards1 1University Of Adelaidde, Adelaide, Australia We live in a world where new is better and there is a perception that this brave new world of technological advancement is a better place where disease will be banished and...

Dr Andrew Caple1 1Queensland University of Technology, Bardon, Australia Attempting to publish information about involuntary mental health tribunal cases (whether civil or forensic), advances several ethical and legal issues, such as the public interest in the open administration of justice;...

Prof. Malcolm Parker1, Prof. Lindy Willmott2, Prof. Ben White2, Prof. Gail Williams3, Prof. Colleen Cartwright4 1University Of Queensland, Red Hill, Australia, 2Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Law School, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, , , 3School of Population Health,...

Dr Jacqueline  Savard1,2,3, Ms Chriselle  Hickerton4,5, Professor Brenda Wilson6, Professor Sylvia Metcalfe4,5, Ms Bronwyn Terrill3,7,8, Associate Professor Clara Gaff9, Associate Professor Kathleen  Gray5, Dr Anna  Middleton10, Associate Professor Ainsley Newson2 1Deakin University, Geelong , Australia, 2The University of Sydney, Sydney,...

Dr Danya Vears1 1 Centre For Biomedical Ethics And Law, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Next generation sequencing technologies (NGS) such as whole genome, whole exome, and large panels of genes, are rapidly changing the paradigm of medicine. Although initially NGS...

Prof. Lyn Gilbert1, Professor Ian Kerridge1 1Sydney Health Ethics, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Australia Published literature indicates that doctors are consistently less compliant than nurses with infection prevention and control (IPC) practices, such as hand hygiene. This...

Muhammad Zubayr Ali Maudarbocus1, Professor Lynn  Gillam2, Associate Professor Clare Delany2 1The University Of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia, 2The Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, Australia Disorders of sex development (DSD) are congenital conditions associated with atypical development of chromosomal, gonadal or anatomical...