Month: June 2018

Dr Andrew Caple1 1Queensland University of Technology, Bardon, Australia Attempting to publish information about involuntary mental health tribunal cases (whether civil or forensic), advances several ethical and legal issues, such as the public interest in the open administration of justice;...

Prof. Malcolm Parker1, Prof. Lindy Willmott2, Prof. Ben White2, Prof. Gail Williams3, Prof. Colleen Cartwright4 1University Of Queensland, Red Hill, Australia, 2Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Law School, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, , , 3School of Population Health,...

Dr Jacqueline  Savard1,2,3, Ms Chriselle  Hickerton4,5, Professor Brenda Wilson6, Professor Sylvia Metcalfe4,5, Ms Bronwyn Terrill3,7,8, Associate Professor Clara Gaff9, Associate Professor Kathleen  Gray5, Dr Anna  Middleton10, Associate Professor Ainsley Newson2 1Deakin University, Geelong , Australia, 2The University of Sydney, Sydney,...

Dr Danya Vears1 1 Centre For Biomedical Ethics And Law, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium Next generation sequencing technologies (NGS) such as whole genome, whole exome, and large panels of genes, are rapidly changing the paradigm of medicine. Although initially NGS...

Prof. Lyn Gilbert1, Professor Ian Kerridge1 1Sydney Health Ethics, School of Public Health, University of Sydney, Australia Published literature indicates that doctors are consistently less compliant than nurses with infection prevention and control (IPC) practices, such as hand hygiene. This...

Muhammad Zubayr Ali Maudarbocus1, Professor Lynn  Gillam2, Associate Professor Clare Delany2 1The University Of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia, 2The Royal Children’s Hospital, Parkville, Australia Disorders of sex development (DSD) are congenital conditions associated with atypical development of chromosomal, gonadal or anatomical...

Taryn Knox1, Associate Professor Lynley  Anderson1, Professor Alison Heather2 1Bioethics Centre, University Of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand, 2Department of Physiology, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand How should we respond when an elite athlete wishes to move from the male...

Dr Lisa Dive1 1University Of Sydney, University Of Sydney, Australia The right not to know one’s genetic or genomic information is accepted by many as an absolute right, despite the debate that has occurred in recent decades. I will argue...

Dr Christopheer Gyngell1 1University Of Melbourne/Murdoch Children’s Research Institute  , Melbourne, Australia Neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) are a priority implementation area for genomic medicine. Rapid genomic testing in the NICU is expected to be genomic medicine’s ‘critical application’, providing...

Dr Lauren Notini1, Dr Christopher Gyngell2,3 1Melbourne Law School, University of Melbourne and Biomedical Ethics Research Group, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Parkville, Australia; 2Biomedical Ethics Research Group, Murdoch Children’s Research Institute; 3Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne ‘Artificial’ or in vitro-derived...