Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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CommInsure scandal reminds us commercial forces are at play in medicine
Published 2016-03-10A scandal has emerged involving the insurance giant CommInsure, following claims by the company’s (now ex) chief health officer that they purposefully sought to avoid paying health-related claims by using outdated disease ...Open AccessArticle -
Beyond rhetoric in debates about the ethics of marketing prescription medicines to consumers: The importance of vulnerability in people, situations and relationships
Published 2010-01-01Background This article examines community responses to the marketing of prescription medicines. Historically, debates about such marketing have focused on alleged unscrupulousness of pharmaceutical companies and on the ...Open AccessArticle -
Justifying Knowledge, Justifying Method, Taking Action: Epistemologies, Methodologies, and Methods in Qualitative Research
Published 2007-01-01In this article, the authors clarify a framework for qualitative research, in particular for evaluating its quality, founded on epistemology, methodology, and method. They define these elements and discuss their respective ...Open AccessArticle -
Walking the tightrope: communicating overdiagnosis in modern healthcare
Published 2016-01-01Overdiagnosis and overtreatment have serious implications for individuals, healthcare systems, and society,1 2 and effective strategies are urgently needed to help the public, clinicians, and policy makers address this ...Open AccessArticle -
Understanding empathy: why phenomenology and hermeneutics can help medical education and practice
Published 2015-03-01This article offers a critique and reformulation of the concept of empathy as it is currently used in the context of medicine and medical care. My argument is three pronged. First, that the instrumentalised notion of empathy ...Open AccessArticle