Month: September 2016

Zohar Lederman1 1 Centre for Biomedical Ethics, Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine, National University of Singapore, Singapore 119077. zoharlederman@gmail.com In 2015, the Israeli Knesset passed the Force-Feeding Act that permits the director of the Israeli Prison Authority to appeal...

Angela Ballantyne1, 1 Department of Primary Health Care and General Practice, University of Otago, Wellington New Zealand, angela.ballantyne@otago.ac.nz Medical knowledge is a ‘public good’ because, according to accepted economic theory, it is “non-rivalrous” and “non-excludable”[1] – one individual can consume...

David Hunter, Associate Professor of Medical Ethics1 1 Flinders University, Bedford park Campus, Adelaide, South Australia, david.hunter@flinders.edu.au  Exploitation is a commonly dismissed issue in the bioethics literature. This is because that literature focuses (unfortunately almost exclusively) on autonomy and threats...

Prof Rachel A. Ankeny1 and Dr Heather J. Bray2 1 School of Humanities, University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005 SA, Australia, email: rachel.ankeny@adelaide.edu.au 2 School of Humanities, University of Adelaide, Adelaide 5005 SA, Australia, email: heather.bray@adelaide.edu.au The increased emphasis on industry...

Ben Gray1, 1 Otago University Wellington 23a Mein Street Newtown Wellington 6021 New Zealand  ben.gray@otago.ac.nz Recent issues of the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry have had several papers discussing the ethics of homeopathy. In this presentation I will argue that asking...

Anson Fehross1 1 Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, The University of Sydney, Level 1, Medical Foundation Building K25, NSW, 2006, anson.fehross@sydney.edu.au In recent years advance directives have been increasingly emphasised, in part due to a rise...

Lisa Dive1 1 Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, Level 1, Medical Foundation Building K25, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, lisa.dive@sydney.edu.au While it has been subjected to significant scrutiny and debate over the years, the value...

Xavier Symons1 1 Research Associate, Institute for Ethics and Society, University of Notre Dame Australia. L1, 104 Broadway (PO Box 944), Broadway NSW 2007. Email: xavier.symons@nd.edu.au Many bioethicists have considered the question, ‘is appropriate for a doctor to be involved...

David Matas1 1 Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba, 602-225 Vaughan Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3C 1T7, dmatas@mts.net Because of a shortage of organs, patients in need of transplants wait long periods and become desperate, spurring transplant tourism. What are...

Dr Susan Hertzberg1 1Prince Of Wales Hospital The era of modern of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) began in the late 1950s and despite evolving recommendations to improve outcomes, the rate of successful resuscitation remains disappointingly low. CPR was originally developed to...