Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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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 -
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 -
The political and ethical challenge of multi-drug resistant tuberculosis
Published 2015-01-01This article critically examines current responses to multi-drug resistant tuberculosis and argues that bioethics needs to be willing to engage in a more radical critique of the problem than is currently offered. In ...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 -
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