Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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Attitudes of the general public towards the disclosure of individual research results and incidental findings from biobank genomic research in Australia
Published 2015-09-01Background Over the past decade, managing the disclosure of findings of genomic research has been the subject of extensive scientific, ethical and legal commentary and is a major challenge for biobanks. Aims To examine ...Open AccessArticle -
Ethics and EBM: acknowledging bias, accepting difference and embracing politics
Published 2010-01-01Evidence-based medicine (EBM) has been effective because it confers both epistemic and moral authority, promising that both individual patient care and public health interventions are effective, safe and efficient, that ...Open AccessArticle -
Health professionals as vendors: the commercial erosion of evidence and ethics
Published 2016-09-12With the discussion paper from the ongoing Review of Pharmacy Remuneration and Regulation still open for public input, there is an opportunity to reflect on how the services currently delivered by community-based pharmacies ...Open AccessArticle -
The limit of labels: ethical food is more than consumer choice
Published 2016-09-08Over the past hundred years, industrial agriculture and the globalised food system have produced cheaper, longer lasting and more diverse food items. We can now enjoy tropical fruits in winter, purchase whole chickens at ...Open AccessArticle -
A definition and ethical evaluation of overdiagnosis: response to commentaries.
Published 2016-01-01It is a privilege to have respected colleagues engage with our definition and ethical evaluation of overdiagnosis. In our response to the commentaries, we first deal with paradigmatic issues: the place of realism, the ...Open AccessArticle, Letter