Month: June 2018

Katrine Del Villar1 1QUT, Brisbane, Australia Self-binding advance directives (also known as Ulysses directives) are increasingly being promoted as valuable tools for people with certain mental health conditions, such as schizophrenia or bipolar disorder.  They enable people with mental illness...

Dr Carolyn Johnston2, Dr Rebekah McWhirter1 1Centre for Law and Genetics, Faculty of Law, University of Tasmania, Hobart, Australia, 2Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Australia Disclosure of genetic information to genetic relatives without consent of the patient presents...

SM Towhidul Karim1 1Macquarie Law School, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia Although there is a long-standing debate in defining the meaning and scope of the term ‘right to health’, the philosophical viewpoints and international human rights law provide important insights to...

Dr Marcus Smith1 1Charles Sturt University , Canberra, Australia Databases of human biometric information and biological material have existed in Australia since the 1970s. Despite the significance of this material and the sensitivity of the information that can potentially be...

Dr Michael Chapman1,2, Prof Jennifer  Philip3,4,5, Prof Paul Komesaroff6 1Canberra Hospital, Department of Palliative Care, Woden, Australia, 2ANU Medical School, Canberra, Australia, 3Melbourne University, Department of Medicine, Parkville, Australia, 4St Vincent’s Hospital Department of Palliative Care, Fitzroy, Australia, 5Victorian Comprehensive...

Dr Cynthia Forlini1, Dr George Skowronski1,2, Dr Michael O’Leary3,4, Prof Ian Kerridge1,5 1Sydney Health Ethics, The University Of Sydney, Camperdown, Australia, 2Intensive Care Unit, St. George Private Hospital, Sydney, Australia, 3New South Wales Organ and Tissue Donation Service, Sydney, Australia,...

Eliana Close1, Malcolm Parker, Andrew Crowden, Lindy Willmott, Benjamin P White, Cindy Gallois, Nick Graves, Sarah Winch, Leonie Callaway 1Australian Centre For Health Law Research, QUT Faculty of Law, Brisbane, Australia Context: Due to advances in medical technology, up to two-thirds...

Selina Metternick-jones1 1South Metropolitan Health Service , Perth , Australia The integration of reproductive genetic testing into clinical care presents both opportunities and challenges to parents in regards to shaping the lives of their future children. Increased access to reproductive...

A/Prof. Paul Macneill1 1University Of Sydney, Sydney Health Ethics, SYDNEY, Australia If that’s all there is my friends, then let’s keep dancing Let’s break out the booze and have a ball If that’s all there is. Peggy Lee Peggy’s many...

Karel Caals1 1Department of Geography, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, National University of Singapore, Singapore, Singapore Globalisation debates in health often pit global health against national health systems. Some argue that (ill) health does not stop at borders: “viruses...