Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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Joe Hockey’s medical research fund is nothing more than a distraction
Published 2014-05-23Health is a basic requirement for an individual to lead a good life. Without health you have nothing; when we are sick, it’s difficult to work, to care for others, to participate in the things we enjoy. We seek treatment ...Open AccessArticle -
What is it like to be a doctor in immigration detention centres?
Published 2014-09-16I am often asked questions about my work as a general practitioner in the Christmas Island and Nauru immigration detention centres. Are the conditions as bad as they say? Is the health care adequate? Are they genuine ...Open AccessArticle -
Values in breast cancer screening: an empirical study with Australian experts
Published 2015-01-01Objective: To explore what Australian experts value in breast screening, how these values are conceptualised and prioritised, and how they inform experts’ reasoning and judgement about the Australian breast-screening ...Open AccessArticle -
Hygiene
Published 2005-01-01Hygiene is defined in current English dictionaries as “the science of health.” This definition, though formally correct, hides a long history of change in the word’s use, from its holistic classical meaning of “individual ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Medicalization of Eating and Feeding
Published 2014-04-10A variety of developments over the past century have produced the conditions in which eating and feeding are transformed from practices embedded in social or cultural relations into explicit medical practices. The rise of ...Open AccessOther