Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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Independent therapeutic advice: How achievable is it?
Published 2013-01-01This supplement is likely to be of interest to anyone involved in the development of clinical guidelines and clinical research, including: • health professionals, trainees and students who use guidelines as a basis for ...Open AccessArticle -
Risk, capacity and making decisions about CTOs
Published 2013-01-011. The two customary justifications for 'involuntary' or 'coercive' treatment of mental illness are either: that without treatment the mentally ill person might be likely to seriously harm themselves or others; or, that ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
Autonomy and Chronic Illness: Not Two Components But Many
Published 2009-01-01Naik et al argue that ‘decisional autonomy’ is insufficient to account for nonadherence in the context of chronic illness and that what is required is a two compartment re-conceptualisation of autonomy that includes both ...Open AccessArticle -
Rethinking pediatric ethics consultations
Published 2015-01-01Johnson and colleagues (2015) report a retrospective review of the experience of an ethics consultation service at a single, highly specialized children's hospital over an 11-year period. Despite its methodologic limitations, ...Open AccessArticle -
Community treatment orders: the lived experience of consumers and carers in NSW
Published 2013-01-01There is limited research examining the lived experiences of consumers and carers subject to community treatment orders (CTOs). Between 2009 and 2012, the Centre for Values Ethics and the Law in Medicine (VELiM) at the ...Open AccessReport, Technical