Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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No chance, no value or no way: Reassessing the place of futility in healthcare and bioethics
Published 2011-04-11Throughout its history, and particularly in the modern age, medicine has fought to conquer disease and to “tame” death. There have been remarkable successes. Yet clearly there are limits to the reach of medicine that are ...Open AccessArticle -
A critical interpretive synthesis of evidence and values in recommendations to disinvest from population Screening
Published 2016-07-01• the interplay between values and evidence in screening policy • methods of an ongoing systematic review • examples of disinvestment decisionsOpen AccessConference paper -
My time; your time; the time of living with myeloma
Published 2012-11-01Introduction: Improvements in treatment of myeloma have led to a significant increase in the median duration of survival Management of the disease often requires onerous and complex regimens involving multi-disciplinary ...Open AccessConference paper -
Pharmaceutical industry support for continuing medical education: Is it time to disengage?
Published 2011-10-17Over the past two decades, the relationship between the medical profession and the pharmaceutical industry has been a source of intense debate, largely because of concern that it may harm patients through inappropriate ...Open AccessArticle -
Anything but the eyes: culture, identity and the selective refusal of corneal donation
Published 2011-12-15At the time that a patient is diagnosed as brain dead, a substantial proportion of families who give consent to heart and kidney donation specifically refuse eye donation. This in part may relate to the failure of those ...Open AccessArticle