Month: September 2022

Ms Ezra Kneebone1, Dr Liz Sutton1 1Monash Bioethics Centre, Monash University Mitochondrial donation (MD) is a novel reproductive technology that works by creating embryos using an enucleated donor oocyte, leaving healthy mitochondria behind alongside the addition of the nuclear genetic...

Dr Ronli Sifris1 1Monash University As of May 2022, all Australian States have legalised voluntary assisted dying. At the same time, all Australian States allow a health professional with a conscientious objection to refrain from participating in voluntary assisted dying,...

Ms Chanelle Warton1 1Monash Bioethics Centre As non-invasive prenatal testing encompasses an increasing range of conditions and gains popularity amongst pregnant people, there is a need to examine how prenatal genetic counselling can best support their reproductive autonomy. Non-directive counselling...

Dr Katrine Del Villar1 1ACHLR, QUT Since 2017, voluntary assisted dying (VAD) laws have been passed in all six Australian states. Victoria’s pioneering Act took elements of Canada’s and Oregon’s assisted dying laws as a starting point, but made significant...

Dr Yves Saint James Aquino1, Prof  Stacy Carter1, Prof Annette  Braunack-Mayer1, Prof  Wendy  Rogers2, Prof Nehmat Houssami3 1University of Wollongong, 2Macquarie University, 3University of Sydney Artificial Intelligence (AI) in healthcare has the potential to improve diagnostic accuracy, personalise therapeutic management...

Associate Professor Angela Ballantyne1, Dr  Alicia  Coram2 1University Of Otago, 2Trinity College Pathways School, Melbourne University We analyze women’s experience of birth trauma using the concepts of hermeneutical injustice, testimonial injustice (Fricker 2007) and wrongful depathologisation (Spencer and Carel 2021)...

Ms Sara Attinger1,2 1Faculty of Law, University of Technology Sydney 2Sydney Health Ethics, University of Sydney Over the past few decades, assisted reproductive treatment (ART) in Australia has become an industry dominated by large corporate clinics and fertility groups, some...

Ms Lisa Mitchell1 1Barwon Health The Royal Commission into Aged Care Quality and Safety in Australia identified ageism as a ‘systemic problem’ with attitudes and assumptions about age affecting delivery and quality of both aged care and healthcare.  The experience...

Dr Taryn Knox1 1University Of Otago Body Mass Index (BMI) is a widely used measure of obesity and is commonly referred to in discourses regarding health.  The mainstream view regarding obesity is that there is a straightforward relationship between BMI...

Assoc Prof Bernadette Richards1, Dr Susannah  Sage Jacobson, Associate Professor  Mianna  Lotz, Distinguished Professor Wendy Rogers 1University Of Queensland The introduction of new technologies in medical treatment has led to rapidly evolving innovations in medical devices. Medical device representatives (MDRs)...