Browsing Sydney Health Ethics by subject "1117 Public Health and Health Services"
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Against the use and publication of contemporary unethical research: the case of Chinese transplant research
Published 2020-01-01Recent calls for retraction of a large body of Chinese transplant research and of Dr. Jiankui He’ gene editing research has led to renewed interest in the question of publication, retraction and use of unethical biomedical ...Open AccessArticle -
Are my religious beliefs anyone’s business? A framework for declarations in health and biomedicine
Published 2020-01-01Conflicts of interests (COIs) are typically divided into those that are financial and those that not. While there is general agreement that financial COIs have a significant impact on decisions and need to be declared and ...Open AccessArticle -
Beyond duty: Medical “heroes” and the Covid-19 pandemic
Published 2020When infectious disease outbreaks strike, health facilities acquire labels such as “war zones” and “battlefields” and healthcare professionals become “heroes” on the “front line.” But unlike soldiers, healthcare professionals ...Open AccessArticle -
Beyond flourishing: Intersecting uses and interests in the neurotechnology marketplace
Published 2019-01-01Open AccessArticle -
Biobank networking and globalisation: perspectives and practices of Australian biobanks
Published 2020Objective This study examined the practices and attitudes of Australian biobanks regarding access to samples and data, as well as local and global networking with other biobanks. Methods This was a mixed-methods study, ...Open AccessArticle -
Conflicts of interest: opening up new territories.
Published 2020Over the last few decades, awareness of the importance of managing conflicts of interest among health-related policymaking, professional, research, and clinical institutions has greatly increased. The visibility of the ...Open AccessArticle -
The direct-to-consumer market for stem cell-based interventions in Australia: Exploring the experiences of patients Special Report
Published 2020-01-01The prevalence of businesses selling autologous stem cell-based interventions (ASCBI) to patients in Australia has raised serious concerns about how weaknesses in regulation have enabled the emergence of an industry that ...Open AccessArticle -
Does consumer engagement in health technology assessment enhance or undermine equity?
Published 2020-01-01Consumer engagement in decisions about the funding of medicines is often framed as a good in and of itself, and as an activity that should be universally encouraged. A common justification for calls for consumer engagement ...Open AccessArticle -
An ethical critique of person-centred healthcare
Published 2020This paper explores the counterfactual aspects of Person-Centred Healthcare (PCH). PCH as promoted appears to have self-evident value as an expression of humanism in medical care, but this can be deceptive. Despite its ...Open AccessArticle -
A framework for ethics review of applications to store, reuse and share tissue samples
Published 2021The practice of biobank networking—where biobanks are linked together, and researchers share human tissue samples—is an increasingly common practice both domestically and internationally. The benefits from networking in ...Open AccessArticle -
Health Professionals “Make Their Choice”: Pharmaceutical Industry Leaders’ Understandings of Conflict of Interest
Published 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 -
Lead Essay: Conflicts of interest: opening up new territories
Published 2020Over the last few decades, awareness of the importance of managing conflicts of interest among health-related policymaking, professional, research, and clinical institutions has greatly increased. The visibility of the ...Open AccessConference paper -
A major new alliance in Australian healthcare: the Australian consensus framework for ethical collaboration in the healthcare sector
Published 2020-01-01The “Australian Consensus Framework for Ethical Collaboration in the Healthcare Sector” (ACF) is an Australian initiative aimed at countering dysfunction and growing mistrust in the health sector through the development ...Open AccessArticle -
Promoting ethics across the healthcare sector: what can codes achieve?
Published 2020Over the course of the twentieth century, numerous national and international ethics “codes” have been developed. While such codes serve important substantive and symbolic functions, they can also pose challenges. In this ...Open AccessArticle -
Public trust and global biobank networks
Published 2020Biobanks provide an important foundation for genomic and personalised medicine. In order to enhance their scientific power and scope, they are increasingly becoming part of national or international networks. Public trust ...Open AccessArticle -
Sexuality and Gender Diverse Populations
Published 2021This chapter reviews the risk factors and treatment options for sexuality and gender diverse populations. Sexuality is a person’s sense of themselves as a sexual person and usually reflects their sexual attraction and ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Transvaginal mesh, gender, and the ethics of clinical innovation
Published 2020-01-01On the 10th of October 2018, Australian Health Minister Greg Hunt issued a national apology to the Australian women who experienced “horrific outcomes” following surgery using transvaginal mesh—acknowledging the “historic ...Open AccessArticle -
Unconventional Practice, “Innovative” Interventions and the National Law
Published 2020-01-01This column explores a recent health profession disciplinary case which throws light on the problems of unconventional interventions by medical practitioners under the Health Practitioner Regulation National Law Act 2009 ...Open AccessArticle -
Women in contact with the Sydney LGBTIQ communities: Report of the SWASH Lesbian, Bisexual and Queer Women’s Health Survey 2016, 2018, 2020
Published 2020A lack of systematic, nuanced research on the health and wellbeing of Australian lesbian, bisexual and queer (LBQ) women (cis and trans) has been a significant barrier to understanding, recognising and addressing their ...Open AccessReport, Research