Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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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 -
“It was not just a walking experience”: reflections on the role of care in dog-walking.
Published 2013-01-01Research into physical activity and human health has recently begun to attend to dog-walking. This study extends the literature on dog-walking as a health behaviour by conceptualizing dog-walking as a caring practice. It ...Open AccessArticle -
Canines, Consanguinity, and One-Medicine: All the Qualities of a Dog except Loyalty
Published 2008-01-01The rise of pet culture and the expansion of medical science occurred concurrently in the late–nineteenth century. From this time in Anglo-American societies dogs were simultaneously valorised as ‘man’s best friend’ and ...Open AccessArticle -
Picturing the Pain of Animal Others: Rationalising Form, Function and Suffering in Veterinary Orthopaedics
Published 2009-01-01Advances in veterinary orthopaedics are assessed on their ability to improve the function and wellbeing of animal patients. And yet historically veterinarians have struggled to bridge the divide between an animal’s ...Open AccessArticle