Month: September 2016

Associate Professor Deborah Zion1, Professor Louise Newman2, Professor Linda Briskman3 1 Centre for Cultrual Diversity and Wellbeing and Office for Research, Victoria University, Victoria, 8001. 2 Director of the Centre for Women’s Mental Health at the Royal Women’s Hospital and...

Neil Pickering1 1 Bioethics Centre, University of Otago, 71 Frederick Street, Dunedin 9016 In 1980, Thomas Szasz appeared in Oakland, California, in the case of People of the State of California vs Darlin June Cromer.  Cromer was charged with the...

Monique Jonas1 1 School of Population Health, University of Auckland, Private Bag 9201 Auckland, New Zealand In many jurisdictions, the state funds and/or provides child health advice. Advice is characterised by its discretionary quality: unlike laws or directives, recipients are...

Sandra L Bradley1 1 ACD Consultant, Adelaide, South Australia, 5041, sandrabradley2@bigpond.com In South Australia there is a new Advance Care Directive Form. There was an intensive exercise in educating clinicians and hospital systems in the acceptance and implementation of these...

Paula O’Brien1 1 Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne, 185 Pelham Street, Carlton, VIC, 3053, obrienpl@unimelb.edu.au The Australian Government retains foreign governments and private corporations to provide health care to asylum seekers in off-shore detention on Nauru and Manus...

Selina Metternick-Jones1 1 University of Sydney, New South Wales 2006, Australia smet8870@uni.sydney.edu.au Biomedicine and society have a particularly tense relationship, with medicine often challenging established moral norms. This complicated relationship is explored by analysing the ethical and regulatory perspectives surrounding...

Janine McIlwraith1 1 Slater & Gordon Lawyers, 485 La Trobe Street, Melbourne, VIC, 3000, janine.mcilwraith@slatergordon.com.au Edgar Allen Poe wrote “The boundaries which divide Life and Death are at best shadowy and vague. Who shall say where the one ends, and...

Julian J. Koplin1 1 Centre for Human Bioethics, Menzies Building, 20 Chancellors Walk, Monash University VIC 3800, julian.koplin@monash.edu The question of whether we should allow the sale of ‘contested commodities’ such as organs, sex, gametes, and surrogacy services is of enduring interest within bioethics....

Rebacca Y X Tock1 1 Department of Philosophy, Macquarie University, NSW 2109, Sydney Australia Email: rebacca.tock@gmail.com Alistair Campbell claims, “the body is of central concern to most people’s understanding of the moral issues raised by modern biomedicine and modern medical...

Kate Robins-Browne1, Nancy Sturman2, Kelsey Hegarty3, Christopher Dowrick4, Victoria Palmer5 1 Department of General Practice, Melbourne Medical School, The University of Melbourne, 200 Berkeley St, Carlton, Vic, 3053, k.robinsbrowne@unimelb.edu.au 2 University of Queensland Medical School; 288 Herston Road, Herston, Qld,...