Month: September 2022

Dr Elizabeth Fenton1 1University Of Otago As debate persists over regulating electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS), those favouring liberal ENDS policies have advanced rights-based arguments privileging harm reduction to people who smoke over harm prevention to children and never-smokers. Recent...

Dr Lisa Eckstein1 1University of Tasmania Data Monitoring Committees (DMCs) play a pivotal role in ensuring the ongoing ethical acceptability of clinical trials, including whether emerging safety or efficacy signals warrant modifying or terminating the trial or specific trial arms....

Associate Professor Neil Pickering1 1University Of Otago In a 2015 case in the UK, C&V, MacDonald J said that the harm a decision might lead to was irrelevant to the question of whether a person was competent to make the...

Dr Naomi Holbeach1 1The University Of Melbourne, 2Mercy Hospital for Women Current law in Australia and other comparable jurisdictions have not evolved a legally enforceable obligation for journal editors and publishers to ensure the veracity of what they publish. There...

Dr Christopher Gyngell1 1Murdoch Children’s Research Institute Although rapid genomic sequencing (RGS) is improving care for critically ill children with rare disease, it raises important ethical questions that need to be explored as its use becomes more widespread. One question...

Dr Hilary Bowman-Smart1 1University Of Oxford, 2Monash University, 3Murdoch Children’s Research Institute Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) is currently available in Australia on a user-pays basis. There are a number of different brands and options for prospective parent(s) to choose from,...

Dr Elizabeth Sutton1 1Monash University Women are often prepared to expect and indeed aim for a normal/natural birth through pre birth education/classes and interactions with health care professionals.  This expectation is often not realised as many women go on to...

Mr Nathan Higgins1 1Monash University Background: Clinical trials of neural implants are rapidly growing and diversifying. However, little attention has been paid to ethical issues of post-trial responsibility. Researchers have reported a lack of guidance on best practices, with post-trial...

Professor Catherine Mills1 1Monash University In March 2022, the Australian Parliament passed legislation to allow the techniques of mitochondrial donation to be introduced into Australia. Known as Maeve’s Law, the Mitochondrial Donation Act 2022 paves the way for implementation of...

Dr David Hunter1 1University Of Adelaide In this paper I describe one strategy that I use to deal with a common engagement issue in teaching applied ethics to students who are studying to become a member of a profession. This...