Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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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 -
Equity under the knife: justice and evidence in surgery.
Published 2012-01-01Surgery is an increasingly common and expensive mode of medical intervention. The ethical dimensions of the surgeon-patient relationship including respect for personal autonomy and informed consent are much discussed, but ...Open AccessArticle -
Portrayals of canine obesity in English-language newspapers and in leading veterinary journals, 2000-2009: Implications for animal welfare organizations and veterinarians as public educators
Published 2011-01-01In industrialized societies, more than one in three dogs as well as people currently qualify as overweight or obese. Experts in public health expect both these figures to rise. While clinical treatment remains important, ...Open AccessArticle -
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 -
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