Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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The Problems of Biobanking and the Law of Gifts
Published 2014-09-01The practice of biobanking is of major importance to biomedical research in modern Western economies. However, biobanking is troubled by a number of ethical and legal concerns including issues of consent, control and ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Governing through choice: Food labels and the confluence of food industry and public health discourse to create ‘healthy consumers’
Published 2014-01-01Food industry and public health representatives are often in conflict, particularly over food labelling policies and regulation. Food corporations are suspicious of regulated labels and perceive them as a threat to free ...Open AccessArticle -
Public Umbilical Cord Blood Banking and Charitable Trusts
Published 2014-09-01Umbilical cord blood (UCB) is the blood from foetal and maternal circulation in the placenta and umbilical cord. This blood is rich in haematopoietic stem cells. These cells have the capacity for self-renewal, proliferation ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Negotiating Value: Comparing Human and Animal Fracture Care in Industrial Societies
Published 2009-01-01At the beginning of the twentieth-century, human and veterinary surgeons faced the challenge of a medical marketplace transformed by technology. The socio-economic value ascribed to their patients – people and domestic ...Open AccessArticle -
Owning the problem: Media portrayals of overweight dogs and the shared determinants of the health of human and companion animal populations
Published 2012-01-01Weight-related health problems have become a common topic in Western mass media. News-coverage has also extended to overweight pets, particularly since 2003 when the U.S. National Academy of Sciences announced that obesity ...Open AccessArticle