Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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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 -
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 -
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company’s (now ex) chief health officer that they purposefully sought to avoid paying health-related claims by using outdated disease ...Open AccessArticle -
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 -
Clarifying the costs of conflicts of interest
Published 2014-01-01Over the past two decades, a deep suspicion has emerged in the healthcare community about the influence of private industry – particularly the pharmaceutical industry – over doctors, researchers, regulators and policymakers ...Open AccessArticle, Letter