Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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A Better Grounding for Person-Centered Medicine?
Published 2013-01-01There is nothing like medicine to attract reformers. Their arguments include claims that orthodox medicine produces iatrogenic harm, it is too expensive, it is arrogantly exclusive of other systems of practice, its ...Open AccessArticle -
What to think of canine obesity? Emerging challenges to our understanding of human-animal health relationships.
Published 2013-01-01The coincident and increasing occurrence of weight-related health problems in humans and canines in Western societies poses a challenge to our understanding of human–animal health relationships. More specifically, the ...Open AccessArticle -
Deriving and critiquing an empirically-based framework for pharmaceutical ethics.
Published 2013-01-01Background: The pharmaceutical industry has been responsible for major medical advances, but the industry has also been heavily criticized. Such criticisms, and associated regulatory responses, are no doubt often warranted, ...Open AccessArticle -
The challenge of overdiagnosis begins with its definition
Published 2015-01-01Overdiagnosis means different things to different people. S M Carter and colleagues argue that we should use a broad term such as too much medicine for advocacy and develop precise, case by case definitions of overdiagnosis ...Open AccessArticle -
Toward stronger theory in critical public health: Insights from debates surrounding posthumanism
Published 2013-01-01The “posthumanist turn” in critical theory comprises efforts to recognize and analyze the interdependence of human existence with non-human entities, including other animals, spaces, and technologies. Scholarship aligned ...Open AccessArticle