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An Agrarian Imaginary in Urban Life: Cultivating Virtues and Vices Through a Conflicted History.
Mayes, CPublished 2013-01-01This paper explores the influence and use of agrarian thought on collective understandings of food practices as sources of ethical and communal value in urban contexts. A primary proponent of agrarian thought that this ...Open AccessArticle -
Because we can, does it mean we should? The ethics of GM foods
Mayes, CPublished 2014-06-27Food is cultural, social and deeply personal, so it’s no surprise that modifications to the way food is produced, distributed and consumed often lead to ethical debates. Developments in the genetic modification (GM) of ...Open AccessArticle -
Big Food with a regional flavour: how Australia’s food lobby works
Mayes, C; Kaldor, JPublished 2014-09-11Criticism of the food industry has itself become a niche industry. But the tendency to embrace a US-centric conception of how the industry works risks masking local variants and inhibiting a targeted response in other ...Open AccessArticle -
Bioethics
Mayes, C; Kerridge, IPublished 2012-01-01Public health has made enormous contributions to global health through policies and interventions. However, public health measures have also increased human suffering through policies of forcedsterilization, mandatory ...Open AccessArticle -
Book Review: Johanna Oksala, Foucault, Politics, and Violence (Evanston, Il: Northwestern University Press, 2012)
Mayes, CPublished 2014-01-01In Foucault, Politics and Violence, Johanna Oksala provides a sophisticated intervention into feminist, political, and Foucauldian literatures addressing the relationship between the politi‐ cal and violence. Oksala lays ...Open AccessArticle -
Clarifying the costs of conflicts of interest
Mayes, C; Lipworth, W; Kerridge, IPublished 2014-01-01Over the past two decades, a deep suspicion has emerged in the healthcare community about the influence of private industry – particularly the pharmaceutical industry – over doctors, researchers, regulators and policymakers ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
Conflicted hope: social egg freezing and clinical conflicts of interest.
Mayes, C; Williams, J; Lipworth, WPublished 2017-01-01Over the past decade ‘social egg freezing’ has emerged as a technology of hope that purports to empower women by enabling them to continue their careers or find the right partner without the fear of jeopardizing their ...Open AccessArticle -
Conflicts of Interest in Australia’s IVF Industry: an empirical analysis and call for action
Blakely, B; Williams, J; Mayes, C; Kerridge, I; Lipworth, WPublished 2017-01-01In Australia, the growing assisted reproductive technologies (ART) industry has recently received some public criticism. Much of this criticism centres on the concern that doctors are increasingly motivated by profit, ...Open AccessArticle -
Conflicts of interest in medicine: taking diversity seriously
Williams, J; Mayes, C; Komesaroff, P; Kerridge, I; Lipworth, WPublished 2017-01-01Background Conflicts of interest (COI) are considered ubiquitous in many healthcare arrangements (1) but there is disagreement on how COI should be defined, whether non-financial conflicts deserve attention, and the ...Open AccessArticle -
Conflicts of Interest in Neoliberal Times: Perspectives of Australian medical students
Mayes, C; Kerridge, I; Habibi, R; Lipworth, WPublished 2016-06-01In this paper we report on the findings from six focus groups conducted with Australian medical students. The focus groups discussed students’ perceptions of conflicts of interest and the influence of commercial values in ...Open AccessArticle -
Debates about conflict of interest in medicine: Deconstructing a divided discourse.
Purdy, S; Little, M; Mayes, C; Lipworth, WPublished 2017-01-01Rationale: The pharmaceutical industry plays an increasingly dominant role in health care, raising concerns about “conflicts of interest” (COI) on the part of the medical professionals who interact with the industry. These ...Open AccessArticle -
Declarations, Accusations and Judgement: Examining conflict of interest discourses as performative speech-acts.
Mayes, C; Lipworth, W; Kerridge, IPublished 2016-04-01Concerns over conflicts of interest (COI) in academic research and medical practice continue to provoke a great deal of discussion. What is most obvious in this discourse is that when COIs are declared, or perceived to ...Open AccessArticle -
Decoding disclosure: Comparing conflict of interest policy among the United States, France, and Australia.
Grundy, Q; Habibi, R; Shnier, A; Mayes, C; Lipworth, WPublished 2018-01-01“Sunshine” policy, aimed at making financial ties between health professionals and industry publicly transparent, has recently gone global. Given that transparency is not the sole means of managing conflict of interest, ...Open AccessArticle -
Don’t be surprised by Abbott’s comments about ‘lifestyle choices’
Mayes, C; Kaldor, JPublished 2015-03-13Prime Minister Tony Abbott’s claim this week that people living in remote communities were making a “lifestyle choice” that taxpayers shouldn’t be obliged to fund was not just the result of an unguarded moment. Rather, the ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
Don’t dismiss conflict-of-interest concerns in IVF, they have a basis
Williams, J; Blakely, B; Mayes, C; Lipworth, WPublished 2016-06-02It’s estimated over 5 million children have been born worldwide as a result of assisted reproductive technology treatments. Assisted reproductive technology, an umbrella term that includes in vitro fertilisation (IVF), is ...Open AccessArticle -
Governing through choice: Food labels and the confluence of food industry and public health discourse to create ‘healthy consumers’
Mayes, CPublished 2014-01-01Food industry and public health representatives are often in conflict, particularly over food labelling policies and regulation. Food corporations are suspicious of regulated labels and perceive them as a threat to free ...Open AccessArticle -
The Harm of Bioethics: A Critique of Singer and Callahan on Obesity
Mayes, CPublished 2014-03-01Debate concerning the social impact of obesity has been ongoing since at least the 1980s. Bioethicists, however, have been relatively silent. If obesity is addressed it tends to be in the context of resource allocation or ...Open AccessArticle -
Health professionals as vendors: the commercial erosion of evidence and ethics
Lipworth, W; Mayes, C; Kerridge, IPublished 2016-09-12With the discussion paper from the ongoing Review of Pharmacy Remuneration and Regulation still open for public input, there is an opportunity to reflect on how the services currently delivered by community-based pharmacies ...Open AccessArticle -
Health Professionals “Make Their Choice”: Pharmaceutical Industry Leaders’ Understandings of Conflict of Interest
Grundy, Q; Tierney, L; Mayes, C; Lipworth, WPublished 2017-01-01Conflicts of interest, stemming from relationships between health professionals and the pharmaceutical industry, remain a highly divisive and inflammatory issue in healthcare. Given that most jurisdictions rely on industry ...Open AccessArticle -
Impure Politics and Pure Science: Efficacious Ebola Medications Are Only a Palliation and Not a Cure for Structural Disadvantage
Degeling, C; Johnson, J; Mayes, CPublished 2015-04-09Caplan and colleagues (2015) present a strong argument for using alternative trial designs for experimental treatments for Ebola virus disease (EVD). This argument is, of course, not new. There is a significant body of ...Open AccessArticle
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