Oral Presentation

Taryn Knox1, Associate Professor Lynley  Anderson1, Professor Alison Heather2 1Bioethics Centre, University Of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2Department of Physiology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand How should we respond when an elite athlete wishes to move from the male...

Dr Lisa Dive1 1University Of Sydney, University Of Sydney, Australia The right not to know one’s genetic or genomic information is accepted by many as an absolute right, despite the debate that has occurred in recent decades. I will argue...

Dr Christopheer Gyngell1 1University Of Melbourne/Murdoch Children’s Research Institute  , Melbourne, Australia Neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) are a priority implementation area for genomic medicine. Rapid genomic testing in the NICU is expected to be genomic medicine’s ‘critical application’, providing...

Dr Lauren Notini1, Dr Christopher Gyngell2,3 1Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne and Biomedical Ethics Research Group, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Parkville, Australia; 2Biomedical Ethics Research Group, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute; 3Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne ‘Artificial’ or in vitro-derived...

Morgan Carpenter1 1Sydney Health Ethics + IHRA + GATE, Newtown, Australia Once described as hermaphrodites and later as intersex people, individuals born with intersex variations are routinely subject to so-called “normalizing” medical interventions, often in childhood. Opposition to such practices...

Eliana Close, Prof. Ben White, Lindy Willmott On 29 November 2017, the Victorian Parliament passed the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2017 (Vic). The Act, which will permit assistance to die in limited circumstances, will not commence until 19 June 2019....

Daryl Pullman1 1Faculty of Medicine, Memorial University, St. John’s, Canada Canada introduced legislation to legalize medical assistance in dying (MAiD) in June of 2016. In the same month the state of California passed the “End-of-Life Option Act” that now permits...

Dr Charles Douglas1 1University of Newcastle, Callaghan, Australia The tort of negligence requires the complainant ‘to show that he has been injured by the breach of a duty owed to him in the circumstances by the defendant to take reasonable...

Dr Jeanne Snelling1 1University Of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand With few exceptions, a person’s right to make and act on a decision in jurisdictions such as New Zealand depends upon them possessing certain functional abilities, commonly referred to as mental...

Prof. Belinda Bennett1, Amanda Brown, Elizabeth Dallaston, Fiona McDonald 1Queensland University Of Technology, Brisbane, Australia Advances in genomic medicine promise new opportunities for diagnosis and treatment of many diseases. In realising the potential of genomic medicine it will be important...