Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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Consent to Biobank Research: Facing Up to the Challenge of Globalisation
Published 2015-01-01There is broad agreement that open-ended consent to research involving banked specimens and associated data is morally justifiable. Importantly, this approach is justifiable if, and only if, clear mechanisms are in place ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
Correlates of unmet needs and psychological distress in adolescent and young adults who have a parent diagnosed with cancer.
Published 2015-08-01Objective. Young people who have a parent with cancer experience elevated levels of psychological distress and unmet needs. In this study we examined the associations between demographics, cancer variables, and family ...Open AccessArticle -
Tuberculosis and Mental Health in the Asia-Pacific
Published 2016-05-20Objective: This opinion piece encourages mental health researchers and clinicians to engage with mental health issues among tuberculosis patients in the Asia-Pacific region in a culturally appropriate and ethical manner. ...Open AccessArticle -
All care, but whose responsibility? Community juries reason about expert and patient responsibilities in prostate-specific antigen screening for prostate cancer
Published 2016-08-03General practitioners have implicitly been given responsibility for guiding men’s decisions about prostate-specific antigen–based screening for prostate cancer, but patients’ expectations of the bounds of this responsibility ...Open AccessArticle -
Bioethics in Australia: On Politics, Power and the Rise of the Christian Right
Published 2011-01-01This chapter talks about Australian bioethics and highlights the argument that bioethics have never been above the political struggle for power and influence in the public marketplace of ideas. It describes the Australasian ...Open AccessBook chapter