Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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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 -
Medicine’s inconvenient truth: The placebo/nocebo effect
Published 2014-04-01Placebo and nocebo effects are often regarded by clinicians as either a quaint reminiscence from the pre-therapeutic era, or simply as a technique for establishing the efficacy of therapeutic interventions within the locus ...Open AccessArticle -
Propaganda or cost of innovation? The high price of new drugs
Published 2015-06-16Ever wonder how much it costs to develop a new drug? The independent, non-profit research group, The Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development, estimates US$2.6 billion, almost double the centre’s previous estimate a ...Open AccessArticle