Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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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 -
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 -
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 -
General Practitioners’ Experiences of, and Responses to, Uncertainty in Prostate Cancer Screening: Insights from a Qualitative Study
Published 2016-04-01Prostate-specific antigen (PSA) testing for prostate cancer is controversial. There are unresolved tensions and disagreements amongst experts, and clinical guidelines conflict. This both reflects and generates significant ...Open AccessArticle -
Ethical and legal issues in mitochondrial transfer
Published 2016-04-01The US National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine recently provided conditional endorsement for mitochondrial transfer. While its approach is more conservative in some respects than that of the United Kingdom ...Open AccessArticle