Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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The double face of Janus: a historical account of the emergence of bone marrow transplantation.
Published 2016-05-01History of modern blood and marrow transplantation (BMT) emerged, as is the case with most new biomedical interventions from sustained clinical and scientific research. But BMT also has a much darker antecedent – nuclear ...Open AccessArticle -
Is it too late to turn back the clock of managerialism and neoliberalism?
Published 2013-01-01The esteemed health economist, Gavin Mooney, who died in tragic circumstances in December 2012, devoted his last book The Health of Nations: Towards a New Political Economy[1] to exposing the pernicious effects of neoliberalism ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
Adherence to cancer screening guidelines in Australian survivors of allogeneic blood and marrow transplantation (BMT)
Published 2016-04-25Allogeneic Blood and Marrow Transplant (BMT) survivors are at high risk of secondary cancers. Although current guidelines endorse survivors following Country-specific general population screening recommendations to mitigate ...Open AccessArticle -
Communication and communicable disease control: lessons from Ebola virus disease.
Published 2015-01-01In her article “Ebola, Team Communication, and Shame: But Shame on Whom?” Shannon (2015) describes communication failures that contributed to delayed diagnosis—and, arguably, to the death—of the first patient in the United ...Open AccessArticle -
Double meanings will not save the principle of double effect
Published 2014-01-01In an article somewhat ironically entitled “Disambiguating Clinical Intentions,” Lynn Jansen promotes an idea that should be bewildering to anyone familiar with the literature on the intention/foresight distinction. According ...Open AccessArticle