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Vulnerability and Marginalized Populations
Published 2016-04-01Public health practitioners attempt to identify and then remove, or at least reduce, threats of harm. However, harm does not affect everyone in the same way. Some people and communities are resilient, whereas others are ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Walking the tightrope: communicating overdiagnosis in modern healthcare
Published 2016-01-01Overdiagnosis and overtreatment have serious implications for individuals, healthcare systems, and society,1 2 and effective strategies are urgently needed to help the public, clinicians, and policy makers address this ...Open AccessArticle -
The Walking Wounded calls for a rethink of what we most value
Published 2014-05-27Starting with Karl Marx, many thinkers have pointed out that the creative potential of the capitalist economic system comes at a cost – the lack of inherent ethical scruples to limit the inexorable logic of profit and ...Open AccessArticle -
Waste not, want not: new organ donation policy could save lives
Published 2015-02-12Australia has never had a great deceased organ donor rate – and it fell last year. But proposed guidelines from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) could change how donor organs are obtained and allocated ...Open AccessArticle -
Watching the Responsibility Clock: Medical Care, Ethics, and Medical Shift Work
Published 2016-01-01The article by Dubov and colleagues (2016) evokes the inadvertent possibility of adverse ethical outcomes arising from the worldwide trend toward mandated work practices. These outcomes include the undermining of key ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
A Week Can be a Long Time in Mental Illness
Published 2011-08-20An erosion of the Mental Health Act is worrying. The safeguards on our human rights hang by a slender thread. In July last year, everyone in NSW had one such safeguard cut away. Its removal, by a simple bureaucratic ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
What factors determine the choice of public engagement undertaken by health technology assessment decision-making organizations?
Published 2016-01-01Purpose: Public engagement in health technology assessment (HTA) is increasingly considered crucial for good decision-making. Determining the “right” type of engagement activity is key in achieving the appropriate consideration ...Open AccessArticle -
What is health promotion ethics?
Published 2012-04-01What does it mean to think about the ethics of health promotion? When most of us think ‘ethics’ we think of the Human Research Ethics Committee applications required for research projects. But I’m thinking of something ...Open AccessArticle -
What is it like to be a doctor in immigration detention centres?
Published 2014-09-16I am often asked questions about my work as a general practitioner in the Christmas Island and Nauru immigration detention centres. Are the conditions as bad as they say? Is the health care adequate? Are they genuine ...Open AccessArticle -
What is overdiagnosis and why should we take it seriously in cancer screening?
Published 2017-07-01Overdiagnosis occurs in a population when conditions are diagnosed correctly but the diagnosis produces an unfavourable balance between benefits and harms. In cancer screening, overdiagnosed cancers are those that did not ...Open AccessArticle -
What might the voices of the second generation tell us?
Published 2006-01-01When I read the first question in the call for contributions for this special issue of Lesbian and Gay Psychology Review - ‘what shapes do queer families take?’ - I had an unexpected moment of recognition. I have a queer ...Open AccessArticle -
What they want: Inclusion of Blood and Marrow Transplant Survivor Preference in the Development of Models of Care for Long-Term Health in Sydney, Australia
Published 2015-12-01Highlights •We surveyed 441 allogeneic bone marrow transplantation survivors about their long-term care preference •Of the respondents, 44.9% indicated that they would prefer long-term follow-up with their ...Open AccessArticle -
What to think of canine obesity? Emerging challenges to our understanding of human-animal health relationships.
Published 2013-01-01The coincident and increasing occurrence of weight-related health problems in humans and canines in Western societies poses a challenge to our understanding of human–animal health relationships. More specifically, the ...Open AccessArticle -
When a mother's rights clash with the needs of her unborn child.
Published 2015-04-09The recent report of case of a pregnant woman who refused life-saving cancer treatment while heavily pregnant has once again ignited debate within the community about how we should resolve conflicts between a mother's ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
'When good evidence is not enough: the role of context in bowel cancer screening policy in New Zealand'.
Published 2011-01-01Bowel cancer is a serious health problem in developed countries. Australia, the United Kingdom (UK) and New Zealand (NZ) reviewed the same randomised controlled trial evidence on the benefits and harms of population-based ...Open AccessArticle -
Where to now for health-related journal peer review?
Published 2011-01-01Peer review of health-related manuscripts has enormous power in determining what is published in health-related journals, and what makes its way into health policy and clinical practice. However, peer review is at times ...Open AccessArticle -
Which public and why deliberate? – A scoping review of public deliberation in public health and health policy research.
Published 2015-03-01Deliberative methods are of increasing interest to public health researchers and policymakers. We systematically searched the peer-reviewed literature to identify public health and health policy research involving deliberative ...Open AccessArticle -
Whither Authenticity?
Published 2005-01-01The discipline of Bioethics, being the amalgam that it is, features myriad concepts, theories, and approaches. Singh adds another dimension to the field, with her sensitive and penetrating investigation into parents' ...Open AccessArticle -
Whose genome is it anyway? Ethics and whole genome sequencing before birth
Published 2014-12-01Geneticist Razib Khan's decision to obtain the whole genome sequence of his partner's fetus in utero shows us that genomics is no longer a fantasy. While it would be a mistake to use this one example to condemn the entire ...Open AccessArticle -
Why care about the health and well-being of asylum seekers?
Published 2014-01-01A report on the refugee detention centre in Nauru by five independent clinical experts posted online by The Guardian on Friday paints a bleak picture of life on the island, particularly for children. But why should we care ...Open AccessArticle