Month: September 2016

Vera Lúcia C. Raposo1 1 Macau University, Macau, vraposo@umac.mo Macau Civil Code states, in Article 63/4, that parents won’t be responsible for malformations or diseases transmitted to their children during conception, nor for the ones subsequently transmitted to the foetus,...

Malcolm Parker1 1 School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Herston Road, Herston, Qld 4006, m.parker@uq.edu.au Within applied ethics, the pre-eminence of medical and health ethics has led to its explicit inclusion in education programs, but through a wide variety of...

Rosalind McDougall1,2 1 Melbourne School of Population and Global Health, University of Melbourne VIC 3010, rmcdo@unimelb.edu.au 2 Children’s Bioethics Centre, Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne Medical internship has long been the subject of sociological study. However, ethical analysis of this crucial...

Fiona McDonald1,2, Christy Simpson2,1, 1 Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology, C Block, Gardens Point Campus, GPO Box 2434 Brisbane Queensland 4001 2 Department of Bioethics, Dalhousie University 5849 University Avenue, Room C-315, CRC Bldg, PO...

Dr Alastair Macdonald1 1CCDHB- Wellington Hospital In recent years the sophistication and utility of mobile phones has been remarkable as has their ubiquity. These developments have enabled patients/family or their whanau, to covertly and easily record clinical encounters. If health...

Student Essay John McPhee (Law) Prize Winner Brent Hyslop1 1University Of Otago, Post-graduate student; Bioethics Centre, University of Otago, New Zealand Decision-making capacity is a vital concept in law, ethics, and clinical practice. Two legal cases where capacity literally had life and...

Student Essay Max Charlesworth (Bioethics) Prize Winner  Helene Jacmon1 1Monash University Disclosure is a common response to conflicts of interest; it is intended to expose the conflict to scrutiny and enable it to be appropriately managed. For disclosure to be...

Cynthia Forlini1, 1 Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney As the world’s population ages, governments and non-governmental organizations in developed countries are promoting cognitive health to reduce the rate of age-related cognitive decline and...

Angus Dawson1 1 Centre for Values, Ethics & the Law in Medicine (VELiM), School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Sydney, NSW 2006. The issue of climate change is surprisingly little discussed in bioethics. This paper begins by exploring the...

Professor Lindy Willmott,1 Professor Ben White,2 Christopher Stackpoole,3 Dr Kelly Purser,4 Dr Andrew McGee5 1Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Faculty of Law, Queensland University of Technology, 2 George Street, Brisbane 4000, Queensland, Australia, l.willmott@qut.edu.au 2Australian Centre for Health Law...