Month: September 2016

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,...

Justin Oakley1 1 Centre for Human Bioethics, Monash University, Victoria 3800. justin.oakley@monash.edu Several philosophers have recently developed accounts of virtue ethics which are more empirically-informed than previous versions of this approach. In doing so, they have argued for a comprehensive...

Vicki Xafis1, Patsi Michalson2 1 Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network, Children’s Hospital at Westmead, Corner Hawkesbury Rd & Hainsworth St, Westmead, NSW 2145  2 Sydney Children’s Hospitals Network, Sydney Children’s Hospital, High Street, Randwick, NSW 2031 Medical decision-making can be complex...

Lynley Anderson1, Althea Blakey2, Kelby Smith-Han3, Tim Wilkinson4, Liz Berryman5 1 Bioethics Centre, University of Otago, PO Box 56 Dunedin, lynley.anderson@otago.ac.nz 2 Bioethics Centre, University of Otago, PO Box 56 Dunedin, althea.blakey@otago.ac.nz 3 Anatomy Department, University of Otago, PO Box...

David A Silkoff1 1 Centre for Health Equity, Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, 207 Bouverie Street, The University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, dsilkoff@student.unimelb.edu.au This paper argues for a richer understanding of how ethical challenges are embedded within the...

Emma Muhlack1, Jaklin Eliott2, Annette Braunack-Mayer3, Drew Carter4 1 School of Public Health, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, 5005 2 School of Public Health, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, South Australia, 5005 3 School of Public Health, University of Adelaide,...

Prof. Tony Eyers1 1Macquarie University Most professional sports, in response to high-profile players having behaved badly in their private lives, have introduced codes of conduct that apply to off-field behaviour, and their regulatory bodies have shown their preparedness to penalise...

Isobel R. Cairns1 1 The University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, isobelrosecairns@gmail.com Health social workers come across across a variety of sensitive information in the course of their work, and some information – such as details of abuse...

Jennifer Moore1, Michelle Mello2, Marie Bismark3 1 Stanford Law School, 559 Nathan Abbott Way, Stanford, CA 94305 and the University of Otago, New Zealand, jennifer.moore@otago.ac.nz 2 Stanford Law School and Department of Health Research and Policy, School of Medicine, 559...

Associate Professor Nikola A. Stepanov1 2, Doctor Nicole Ash 3 1 Division of Tropical Health & Medicine, James Cook University, JCU Clinical School, The Townsville Hospital , 100 Angus Smith Drive, Douglas QLD  4814 nikola.stepanov@health.qld.gov.au 2 Centre for Health Ethics,...