Month: July 2021

Dr Louise Austin1 1Cardiff Unversity, Cardiff, United Kingdom Despite the United Kingdom’s (UK) move towards a patient-centred standard of disclosure in informed consent to treatment, the disclosure of alternative treatments continues to be dominated by medical perspectives. To avoid a...

Ms Lucinda Freeman1,2, Prof Martin Delatycki3,4, Prof Jackie Leach5, Prof Edwin Kirk1,2,6 1School of Women and Children’s Health, University Of New South Wales, Randwick, Australia, 2Centre for Clinical Genetics, Sydney Children’s Hospital Randwick, Randwick, Australia, 3Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Parkville,...

Ms Naomi Burstyner1 1Monash University, Australia In recent years a growing empirical evidence base has explored how the family members of deceased persons experience coronial processes. This research has identified that families often report difficulties associated with a lack of...

Ms. Caroline Variath1 1University Of Toronto, Toronto, Canada, 2Humber College ITAL, Toronto, Canada Background. In March 2021, amendments to the Canadian medical assistance in dying (MAiD) legislation with the enactment of Bill C-7 allow eligible people who lose decision-making capacity...

Mrs Mascha Moerenburg1 1University Of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand The literature describes ethical burdens that fall on healthcare practitioners. In Aotearoa, New Zealand there is limited availability of a clinical ethics support service that healthcare professionals can call on. Ethical...

Dr Rebekah McWhirter1 1Deakin University, Geelong, Australia To optimise public health benefits, vaccination needs to be taken up by a very high proportion of the population. When this cannot be achieved through voluntary means, mandatory policies based on incentives or...

Dr Muhammad Zaheer Abbas1 1Queensland University Of Technology, Brisbane, Australia The COVID-19 pandemic has burdened most of the health systems around the world. Governments, especially in resource-constrained low- and middle-income countries, are finding it hard to meet the health needs...

Ms Hilary Bowman-Smart1,2 1Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, Parkville, Australia, 2Department of Paediatrics, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Australia In Victoria, termination of pregnancy (TOP) is legal at all gestations. As per the Abortion Law Reform Act 2008, TOPs post-24 weeks require...

Ms Serene Ong1 1Centre for Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore, , Singapore For hereditary diseases, early awareness of genetic risk can improve outcomes for family members at risk. While there are strong clinical, public health, and social reasons for...

Ms Kristina Chelberg1 1ACHLR, QUT, Brisbane, Australia This paper argues that ‘brain health advice’, a recurrent theme in Australian aged-care discourse, constructs a moral framework of self-responsibility for cognitive health in older age and renders the state of the ageing...