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 -
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 -
Ethics and Evidence in Medical Debates: The Case of Recombinant Activated Factor VII
Published 2014-01-01It is broadly acknowledged that even the most “evidence-based” clinical practice is highly value laden. These values are particular evident in debates about the use of recombinant activated factor VII (rFVIIa)--a drug ...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