Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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Using a Web-Archiving Service - How to ensure your cited web-references remain available and valid
Published 2017-09-14In today’s electronic information age, academic authors increasingly cite online resources such as blog posts, news articles, online policies and reports in their scholarly publications. Citing such webpages, or their URLs, ...Open AccessArticle -
PSA testing for men at average risk of prostate cancer.
Published 2017-01-01Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing of men at normal risk of prostate cancer is one of the most contested issues in cancer screening. There is no formal screening program, but testing is common - arguably a practice ...Open AccessArticle -
On the fragility of medical virtue in a neoliberal context: the case of commercial conflicts of interest in reproductive medicine.
Published 2016-03-01Social, political, and economic environments play an active role in nurturing professional virtue. Yet, these environments can also lead to the erosion of virtue. As such, professional virtue is fragile and vulnerable to ...Open AccessArticle -
Declarations, Accusations and Judgement: Examining conflict of interest discourses as performative speech-acts.
Published 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 -
Regulating the Stem Cell Industry: Needs and Responsibilities
Published 2017-07-01Emerging biotechnologies pose public health challenges1 because of both the known and unforeseen risks they carry, the uncertain medical benefits they offer, the speed at which they have disseminated and their unproven ...Open AccessArticle