Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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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 -
Privacy in the context of ‘re-emergent’ infectious diseases.
Published 2014-04-27James is a 31-year-old information technology worker who has been referred to you by the Department of Health for tuberculosis (TB) screening. A work colleague, Susan, has been recently diagnosed with pulmonary tuberculosis, ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
Power and control in interactions between journalists and health-related industries – the view from industry.
Published 2014-01-01The mass media is a major source of health information for the public, and as such the quality and independence of health news reporting is an important concern. Concerns have been expressed that journalists reporting on ...Open AccessArticle