Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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Drawing the Lines: Health scares in the age of SARS
Published 2008-01-01Epidemics of fear, perhaps also of disease: here are some important foci for our present anxieties. By ‘us’ I mean the various academics, experts and professionals, who in the ‘western’ nations of North America, Europe and ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Middlemarch
Published 2009-01-01At the time George Eliot wrote Middlemarch, the boundaries between History and Fiction (like those between Science and Romance, or Medicine and various Arts ) were still blurred. We who are the heirs of that era have liked ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Empathy and affect: what can empathied bodies do?
Published 2016-01-01While there has been much interest in the apparent benefits of empathy in improving outcomes of medical care, there is continuing concern over the philosophical nature of empathy. We suggest that part of the difficulty in ...Open AccessArticle -
Involving patients in understanding hospital infection control using visual methods
Published 2015-02-01Aims and Objectives This paper explores patients' perspectives on infection prevention and control. Background Healthcare-associated infections are the most frequent adverse event experienced by patients. Reduction strategies ...Open AccessArticle -
Being Human: The Ethics, Law, and Scientific Progress of Genome Editing
Published 2016-01-01Genome editing can be viewed as a disruptive technology – fundamentally changing how scientists alter genomes. Despite the technique remaining imperfect, there is now a real possibility that we can precisely and accurately ...Open AccessArticle