Month: September 2022

Associate Professor Giles Newton-howes1 1University Of Otago Wellington Following the signing of the UNCRPD there have been concerted efforts internationally to repeal and replace mental health legislation, including in Australasia.  % of Australian states have now amended their civil mental...

Dr Eliana Close1 1Australian Centre For Health Law Research, Queensland University of Technology In June 2016, Canada legalized medical assistance in dying (MAiD). From the outset, some institutions (including hospitals, hospices, and residential aged care facilities) have refused to allow...

Dr Rebecca Lindsay-Mealey1, Ms  Anne  Preisz, Professor David Isaacs 1Sydney Children’s Hospital Network Developing a universal tool to evaluate Clinical Ethics Services (CES) is difficult according to current literature for many reasons including the variability of service models, as well...

Prof Mark Taylor1 1Melbourne Law School We live in a world increasingly driven by the digital. Health data, and the information it yields, is used to group and to stratify and it is mined to connect different people with risk,...

Mr Pat McConville1 1Monash Bioethics Centre, Monash University Heart failure is a leading cause of morbidity. It is incurable and can only be managed or palliated. Later stages of the illness prevent patients from undertaking normal activities, limit their possibilities...

Dr Jayne Hewitt1 1Griffith University ABSTRACT Purpose To describe how Queensland’s legal framework for end-of-life decision-making is applied in Emergency Departments (ED) and Intensive Care Units (ICU). Nature and scope of the topic EDs and ICUs employ healthcare professionals that...

Assoc Professor Ben Gray1 1University Of Otago Wellington Those who are against cultural relativity argue that “even if a universal set of ethical norms has not yet been articulated or agreed upon , ethical relativism is a pernicious doctrine’[1] However...

Dr Michaela Okninski1 1University Of Adelaide The recent, rapid legalisation of voluntary assisted dying (‘VAD’) throughout Australia has undoubtedly caused disquiet among medical practitioners who observe tenets of Abrahamic religious belief systems. In the space of five short years, all...

Dr Siun Gallagher1 1The University Of Sydney Despite recent technological advances, the proportion of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) cycles that result in babies being born has declined. In order to try to increase their chances of success, patients are often...

Dr Christopher Rudge1 1University Of Sydney Law School Somatic cell genome editing (SCGE) now allows targeted, precise and nonheritable changes to be made to human DNA. While SCGE may have many applications in the future, current clinical trials indicate its...