Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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Stories worth telling: Moral experiences of suicidal behavior.
Published 2014-01-01Moral constructions of suicide are deliberately avoided in contemporary suicidology, yet morality persists, little or imperfectly acknowledged, in its practices and in the policies, discourses, and instruments that it ...Open AccessArticle -
In reply: One moment doctor! Have you forgotten hand hygiene?
Published 2014-01-01Auditing the five moments of hand hygiene is potentially subjective, but auditor training is designed to ensure consistency between auditors within and between health care settings. Interpretative differences cannot ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
Preventing perinatal group B streptococcal infection: the jury is still out.
Published 2002-01-01EVER SINCE GROUPB streptococcus (GBS) emerged as the commonest cause of perinatal sepsis in the late 1970s, there has been controversy about prevention strategies. A few hospitals in Australia were among the first in the ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
Looking beyond the qualitative and quantitative divide: Narrative, ethics and representation in suicidology
Published 2011-01-01This work is a critical response to renewed debate within the field of suicidology with regard to the value of qualitative research methods. It begins by rejecting the context of the established debate which continues to ...Open AccessArticle -
Waste not, want not: new organ donation policy could save lives
Published 2015-02-12Australia has never had a great deceased organ donor rate – and it fell last year. But proposed guidelines from the National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) could change how donor organs are obtained and allocated ...Open AccessArticle