Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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Public Health Research
Published 2016-04-01Having a scientific basis for the practice of public health is critical. Research leads to insight and innovations that solve health problems and is therefore central to public health worldwide. For example, in the United ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Vulnerability and Marginalized Populations
Published 2016-04-01Public health practitioners attempt to identify and then remove, or at least reduce, threats of harm. However, harm does not affect everyone in the same way. Some people and communities are resilient, whereas others are ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Do no harm: is it time to rethink the Hippocratic Oath?
Published 2014-01-01Introduction The 1964 revision of the Hippocratic Oath addressed the disconnection in language and context between the classical doctrine and 20th century medicine. Now, 50 years later, we argue that any revision of the ...Open AccessArticle -
Habitus and Responsible Dog-ownership: reconsidering the health promotion implications of 'dog-shaped' holes in people's lives.
Published 2015-04-01Responsible dog ownership has been identified as a point of intervention to promote physical activity, based upon an expectation of dog walking in public space. Nevertheless, quantitative research has found variability ...Open AccessArticle -
Public Health Ethics: Cases Spanning the Globe
Published 2016-04-01Public health ethics can be seen both as the application of principles and norms to guide the practice of public health and as a process for identifying, analyzing, and resolving ethical issues inherent in the practice of ...Open AccessBook