Dr Anson Fehross1 1Sydney Health Ethics, University Of Sydney Group substitute decision maker (SDM) appointments refer to cases where a patient, anticipating future incompetency, appoints multiple SDMs to decide on their behalf. Despite the availability of group SDM appointments throughout...
- September 8, 2022
Dr Sascha Callaghan1, Dr Liz Sutton 1University Of Sydney This paper presents a high level discourse analysis of the major midwifery textbooks used in Australian midwifery training. The analysis uses grounded theory to identify the key themes and values evident...
- September 8, 2022
The emerging European Union regulatory framework on secondary uses of health data: what will change?
Prof. Mahsa Shabani1 1Ghent University In the recent years importance of secondary uses of health data for clinical, research and policy making purposes has been further stressed in view of the availability of health-related data collected in traditional and non-traditional...
- September 8, 2022
Dr Bridget Pratt1 1Australian Catholic University Social injustice and ecological injustice are deeply interconnected. Yet conceptions of social justice, environmental justice, and ecological justice remain distinct. Their separation is extremely problematic if we are to address global crises ethically and...
- September 8, 2022
Dr Julia Duffy1 1Australian Centre For Health Law Research, Qut Disability rights scholars have hailed the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (‘the Convention”) as affirming as recognised doctrine the much-contested principle of the interdependence and indivisibility of...
- September 8, 2022
Ms Serene Ong1 1National University Of Singapore Genetic testing is often used in combination with other tools such as family history to diagnose hereditary conditions. Family history as understood in the clinical setting is a record of medical information about...
- September 8, 2022
Dr Robert Ray2 1Barwon Health, 2Deakin University Currently, 1,850 Australians await organ transplants from deceased donors. Persisting difficulties in meeting needs for transplantation mean that every opportunity for donation of organs or tissues for transplantation is valuable and possibly life-saving....
- September 8, 2022
A/Prof Rosalind McDougall1, Dr Kathryn MacKay2, Prof John Massie3, Dr Georgina Hall3 1Centre for Health Equity, University of Melbourne, 2Sydney Health Ethics, University of Sydney, 3Children’s Bioethics Centre, Royal Children’s Hospital Ethics podcasts are everywhere. With journals and university departments...
- September 8, 2022
Dr Sam Boyle1 1Australian Centre For Health Law Research, School Of Law, Queensland University Of Technology Reoffending is a major policy challenge in relation to young people involved in the justice system. Various factors have been shown to predict reoffending,...
- September 7, 2022
Dr. Scott Kitchener1 1Australian Centre For Health Law Research The first quarantine legislation for the New South Wales colony was passed in 1832, to protect maritime arrival of infectious disease. In the Constitution Act, 1901 (UK) quarantine was the only...
- September 7, 2022