Month: September 2016

Professor Ben White1, Professor Lindy Willmott2, Associate Professor Cheryl Tilse3, Professor Jill Wilson4, Dr Deborah Lawson5, Professor Jeffrey Dunn6, Ms Angela Pearce7, Professor Joanne Aitken8, Dr Rachel Feeney9 1 Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology, GPO...

Jon F. Merz1 1 Department of Medical Ethics & Health Policy, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania,  Blockley Hall Floor 14, 423 Guardian Drive, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4884 USA, merz@upenn.edu Expert witnesses in litigation play a key role...

Angela J. Ballantyne1, Mike R. King2 1 Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice, University of Otago, Wellington New Zealand, angela.ballantyne@otago.ac.nz 2 Bioethics Centre, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, mike.king@otago.ac.nz Medical care relies on research to test and...

Jane Johnson1, Katrina Hutchison1 1 Department of Philosophy, Level 7 Building W6A, Macquarie University, North Ryde, NSW, 2109 jane.johnson@mq.edu.au It is well recognised that relationships between health care providers and industry have the potential to generate conflicts of interest with...

Barbara Hayes1, Anne Marie Fabri1, Maria Coperchini2, Rafatullah Parkar3 , Zoe Austin-Crowe4 1 Northern Health, Bundoora Extended Care Centre, 1231 Plenty Road Bundoora, Vic, 3083.  barbara.hayes@nh.org.au 2 Western Health, Footscray Hospital, Gordon Street, Footscray, Vic, 3011 3 Monash Health, Kingston...

Bronwen Morrell1 1 Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, Level 1, Medical Foundation Building, K25, University of Sydney, NSW 2006 As Grzanka et al. argued recently in the American Journal of Bioethics, intersectional approaches to issues of...

Christopher Mayes1 1 Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, 92-94 Parramatta Rd, University of Sydney, NSW, 2006. christopher.mayes@sydney.edu.au Australian and New Zealand bioethics is often assumed to share a similar history to American or British bioethics. Yet...

Jon Jureidini1 1 Critical & Ethical Mental Health Research Group, University of Adelaide, 55 King William Rd, North Adelaide, 5006. jon.jureidini@sa.gov.au There is increasing acknowledgment that contrarian views in a range of scientific fields are less likely to be published,...

Sumytra Menon1 1 Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore The conduct of human biomedical research will enter a new phase as Singapore transitions from advisory guidelines to legal regulation. The Human Biomedical...

Merle Spriggs1, Lynn Gillam2 1 Children’s Bioethics Centre, Royal Children’s Hospital / University of Melbourne, Flemington Road, Parkville, Victoria, 3052, merle.spriggs@mcri.edu.au 2 Children’s Bioethics Centre, Royal Children’s Hospital / University of Melbourne, Flemington Road, Parkville, Victoria, 3052 l.gillam@unimelb.edu.au Labioplasty is...