Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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Multidisciplinary perspectives on the donation of stem cells and reproductive tissue
Published 2012-01-01Since the late 1970s, the capacity of assisted reproductive technologies to reorder the beginnings of life has generated robust, sometimes heated social debate. The new repertoires of in vitro fertilisation (IVF) and oocyte ...Open AccessArticle -
Liminal Reproductive Experiences after Therapies for Hematological Malignancy
Published 2015-01-01In this article, we discuss the psychosocial health of young women related to fertility, pregnancy, and motherhood after therapies for hematological malignancies. We utilized a hermeneutical phenomenological approach to ...Open AccessArticle -
Mothering and self-othering: The impact of uncertain reproductive capability in young women after hematological malignancy
Published 2014-01-01We explored the experience of uncertain fertility, pregnancy and motherhood in twelve young women treated for haematological malignancy during their reproductive years. It is demonstrated how, through interpretations of ...Open AccessArticle -
Screening for cervical, prostate and breast cancer: interpreting the evidence
Published 2015-06-01Cancer screening is well-established in high income countries, but its evidence base is constantly evolving and often contentious. This leaves physicians and policymakers in a difficult position, forced to act in the context ...Open AccessArticle -
Too Much Medicine in older people? Deprescribing through Shared Decision Making
Published 2016-06-03Too much medicine is an increasingly recognised problem,1 2 and one manifestation is inappropriate polypharmacy in older people. Polypharmacy is usually defined as taking more than five regular prescribed medicines.3 It ...Open AccessArticle