Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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Public preferences for communicating personal genomic risk information to the general public: a focus group study
Published 2016-02-06Background Personalized genomic risk information has the potential to motivate behaviour change and promote population health, but the success of this will depend upon effective risk communication strategies. Objective ...Open AccessArticle -
Religious perspectives on human suffering: Implications for medicine and bioethics
Published 2015-02-01The prevention and relief of suffering has long been a core medical concern. But while this is a laudable goal, some question whether medicine can, or should, aim for a world without pain, sadness, anxiety, despair or ...Open AccessArticle -
Dilemmas in the Compassionate Supply of Investigational Cancer Drugs
Published 2014-01-01In Australia, patients who want to access medicines that are not yet approved have only two options: to enrol in a clinical trial if they are eligible, or obtain their medicine through ‘compassionate supply’, which is ...Open AccessArticle -
Ebola, Ethics, and the Question of Culture (Editorial)
Published 2014-01-01The Ebola virus disease (EVD) epidemic in Western Africa has, in recent months, aroused growing alarm in Western countries. Attention has been drawn to the threat posed to the inhabitants of the region by what has undoubtedly ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
The lived experience of involuntary community treatment: a qualitative study of mental health consumers and carers
Published 2014-01-01Objective: To describe the lived experiences of people subject to community treatment orders (CTOs) and their carers. Method: We recruited 11 participants (five mental health consumers and six carers) through consumer and ...Open AccessArticle