Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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An innovative approach to strengthening health professionals’ infection control and limiting hospital-acquired infection: video-reflexive ethnography
Published 2015-01-01Objective To strengthen clinicians’ infection control awareness and risk realisation by engaging them in scrutinising footage of their own infection control practices and enabling them to articulate challenges and design ...Open AccessArticle -
If we don’t talk about value, cancer drugs will become terminal for health systems
Published 2015-07-27More than 100 prominent oncologists from across the United States have called on cancer patients to challenge the high prices charged by pharmaceutical companies for new cancer drugs. They claim drug companies, insurance ...Open AccessArticle -
Pharmaceuticals, money and the health care organisational field
Published 2015-07-23Using an institutional theory framework, this article discusses the place of the pharmaceutical industry within the health care organizational field, and the wideranging effects the industry has on the other organizations ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Why we shouldn’t always compensate people for historical wrongs
Published 2015-06-11Human research ethics has often been formulated in response to scandals. However, the majority of research ethics cases are actually quite mundane. They involve committees making decisions about the likely balance between ...Open AccessArticle -
(Re)Moralizing the suicide debate
Published 2014-04-01Contemporary approaches to the study of suicide tend to examine suicide as a medical or public health problem rather than a moral problem, avoiding the kinds of judgements that have historically characterised discussions ...Open AccessArticle