Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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Implementing One Health approaches to Emerging Infectious Disease: Reflections on the socio-political, ethical and legal dimensions
Published 2015-12-01Background: ‘One Health’ represents a call for health researchers and practitioners at the human, animal and environmental interfaces to work together to mitigate the risks of emerging and re-emerging infectious diseases ...Open AccessArticle -
An analysis of the community treatment order system in New South Wales
Published 2015-04-13Aims: The use of CTOs in the management of people living with severe and enduring mental illness is both controversial and poorly understood. The study aimed to determine the factors that shape the operation of the CTO ...USyd AccessThesis -
Regulations have improved since thalidomide but drug scares are still possible
Published 2015-12-10The thalidomide tragedy, which resulted in thousands of deaths and disabilities in the late 1950s and early 1960s, changed medicine forever. One of its outcomes was the establishment of more robust mechanisms for the ...Open AccessArticle -
Gene editing could open up animal organ transplants into humans
Published 2015-12-04The clinical potential and ethical difficulty posed by gene-editing technology, which can “find and replace” targeted genes, is seemingly endless. But while public attention is focused on whether we should use it to change ...Open AccessArticle -
Smoking Cessation Programs for LGBTI People: A Systematic Review of Content and Effect
Published 2015-11-27Despite widespread evidence of smoking’s harms to health, rising costs of tobacco products, and the visibility of public health interventions aimed at tobacco users, tobacco use remains high among lesbian women, gay men, ...Open AccessReport, Technical