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An empirical study of tissue banking in Australia: Navigating regulatory and ethical challenges
Published 2006-01-01
Collections of tumour samples can be an invaluable resource for medical research. There are, however, numerous ethical and legal challenges associated with tumour banking. While there has been extensive discussion of these ...
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An archaeology of corruption in medicine.
Published 2014-01-01
Corruption is a word used loosely to describe many kinds of action that people find dis-tasteful. We prefer to reserve it for the intentional misuse of the good offices of an established social entity for private benefit ...
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Marginalizing experience: A critical analysis of public discourse surrounding stem cell research in Australia (2005-6).
Published 2011-01-01
Over the past decade, stem cell science has generated considerable public and political debate. These debates tend to focus on issues concerning the protection of nascent human life and the need to generate medical and ...
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Virtuous acts as practical medical ethics: an empirical study
Published 2011-01-01
Rationale, aims and objectives To examine the nature, scope and significance of virtues in the biographies of medical practitioners and to determine what kind of virtues are at play in their ethical behaviour and reflection. ...
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Evidence and desperation in off-label prescribing: recombinant factor VIIa
Published 2012-01-01
Wendy Lipworth and colleagues explore why clinicians prescribe recombinant f actor VIIa off-label for major haemorrhage, despite a lack of supporting evidence—and why this matters
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Ethics and Evidence in Medical Debates: The Case of Recombinant Activated Factor VII
Published 2014-01-01
It is broadly acknowledged that even the most “evidence-based” clinical practice is highly value laden. These values are particular evident in debates about the use of recombinant activated factor VII (rFVIIa)--a drug ...
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Justifying Knowledge, Justifying Method, Taking Action: Epistemologies, Methodologies, and Methods in Qualitative Research
Published 2007-01-01
In this article, the authors clarify a framework for qualitative research, in particular for evaluating its quality, founded on epistemology, methodology, and method. They define these elements and discuss their respective ...
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Debates about conflict of interest in medicine: Deconstructing a divided discourse.
Published 2017-01-01
Rationale: 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 ...
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Access to high cost cancer medicines through the lens of an Australian Senate Inquiry - defining the 'goods' at stake.
Published 2017-01-01
In Australia, the government is the primary payer for cancer medicines, and is supported by the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee, which makes recommendations about which medicines should be funded on the ...
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Deriving and critiquing an empirically-based framework for pharmaceutical ethics.
Published 2013-01-01
Background: The pharmaceutical industry has been responsible for major medical advances, but the industry has also been heavily criticized. Such criticisms, and associated regulatory responses, are no doubt often warranted, ...
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