Month: September 2022

Dr Georgina Hall1 1The Royal Children’s Hospital, Melbourne Reproductive rights are universally respected and robustly defended human freedoms. The presumptive priority of reproductive freedom forms the predominant position in the literature, translating in the non-sexual reproductive realm as an almost...

Associate Professor Tina Cockburn1 1Australian Centre For Health Law Research The Australian Open Disclosure Framework (2013) was developed to facilitate the open communication between health service organisations, clinicians and patients when things go wrong in health care. Open disclosure can...

Doctor Aurelie Copin1 1QUT, 2Australian Centre for Health Law Research Conscientious objection (CO) rose to prominence in healthcare with the legalisation of abortion. However, it is accepted to be much more prevalent in the medical community in relation to voluntary...

Dr Linda Sheahan1 1South East Sydney Local Health District, 2Sydney Health Ethics The cost of healthcare continues to rise in Australia across all sectors, most notably the rapidly growing cost of pharmaceuticals. Considerations regarding the ‘judicious’ use of medicines, or...

Miss Danica Davies1 1University Of Otago Persistent pain remains undertreated in women (Samulowitz et al., 2018). Maya Dusenbery has argued that the undertreatment of women’s persistent pain is the product of two related problems: the knowledge gap, whereby women’s health...

Ms Casey Haining1 1Australian Centre for Health Law Research, Queensland University Of Technology Following the passing of the Voluntary Assisted Dying Act 2019 (WA) in December 2019, Western Australia became the second Australian jurisdiction to pass voluntary assisted dying laws....

Mr Rob McHawk1, Dr Kristin Good2 1Ministry of Health, 2Ministry of Health The New Zealand End of Life Choice Act (The Act) came into force on 7 November 2021 following the outcome of the 2021 New Zealand referendum. The New...

Ms Madeleine Archer1 1Australian Centre for Health Law Research, QUT Abstract: A significant body of research examines the Belgian assisted dying legal framework, which has been operational for almost 20 years. Despite this, research has tended to take a siloed...

Associate Professor Michelle Taylor-Sands, Ms Chanelle Warton 1Melbourne Law School In Australia, some areas of reproductive medicine are regulated beyond the general regulation of health practitioners. However, there are inconsistencies within the current regulatory landscape of reproductive genetic testing. There...

Mrs Sinead Prince1 1Queensland University of Technology In order to determine whether genetic enhancement is morally permissible, it is first necessary to understand what is meant by the concept ‘enhancement’. While most people accept a legitimate role for genetic therapy,...