Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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Consumer perspectives of accelerated access to medicines: A qualitative study.
Published 2021Purpose In this study, we aimed to explore consumer perspectives on accelerated access to medicines. We were particularly interested in how they balance competing considerations of safety, efficacy, equity and access; ...Open AccessArticle -
Regulatory authority and clinical acceptability: Physicians’ responses to regulatory drug safety warnings
Published 2021Aim Medicines regulators issue post-market safety warnings to advise of newly uncovered risks, but with mixed impacts. We aimed to identify factors influencing the use of regulatory warnings by primary care and specialist ...Open AccessArticle -
Balancing Bioethics by Sensing the Aesthetic
Published 2017This paper is critical of ‘bioethics’ as it is widely understood and taught, noting in particular an emphasis given to philosophical justification, reason and rationality. It is proposed that ‘balancing’ bioethics be ...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