Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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Eliminating latent tuberculosis in low-burden settings: are the principal beneficiaries to be disadvantaged groups or the broader population?
Published 2017-01-01Tuberculosis (TB) remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide, and the burdens of this disease continue to track prior disadvantage. In order to galvanise a coordinated global response, WHO has recently ...Open AccessArticle -
Regulating risk and the boundaries of state conduct: a relational perspective on home birth in Australia
Published 2016-01-01The concept of motivated reasoning and conflicting moral domains behind the state’s conduct towards pregnant women, as described by Minkoff and Marshall (2015), can also be observed in the apparent attitudes towards homebirth ...Open AccessArticle -
Vaccines – but not as we know them: An ethical evaluation of HPV vaccination policy in Australia
Published 2011-01-01Objective: To show how systematic ethical evaluation of public health policy may reveal issues of moral significance for critical examination. Method: Using Australia's human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination program as an ...Open AccessArticle -
For your interest? The ethical acceptability of using non-invasive prenatal testing to test ‘purely for information'
Published 2014-01-01Non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) is an emerging form of prenatal genetic testing that provides information about the genetic constitution of a foetus without the risk of pregnancy loss as a direct result of the test ...Open AccessArticle -
Attitudes of physicians and public to pharmaceutical industry “gifts”
Published 2010-01-01Background: Few studies have reported the attitudes of both individual doctors and members of the public toward the appropriateness of ‘gifts’ from pharmaceutical companies. Aims: To investigate the attitudes of both ...Open AccessArticle