Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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The precarious future of the discourse of person-centered medicine
Published 2014-01-01Discourses are more than just patterns of words. For discourse communities, they express ideologies and provide meanings that can be translated into action. They are vehicles for reform when they thrive. The discourse of ...Open AccessArticle -
Values as ‘modest foundations’ for medicine
Published 2014-01-01Medicine and healthcare have been around for thousands of years, but we seldom ask why they are so important. It seems self-evident that we should seek relief of suffering from some institution in the society in which we ...Open AccessArticle -
Theorizing personhood: for better or for worse
Published 2014-01-01Person-centered medicine is emerging as one of the most formidable critiques of evidence-based medicine. One of its claims to priority over patient-centered care, humane medicine, narrative-based medicine and values-based ...Open AccessArticle -
Untested, unproven, and unethical: the promotion and provision of autologous stem cell therapies in Australia
Published 2015-01-01An increasing number of private clinics in Australia are marketing and providing autologous stem cell therapies to patients. Although advocates point to the importance of medical innovation and the primacy of patient choice, ...Open AccessArticle -
The Medical Humanities: A brief introduction
Published 2008-01-01The medical humanities is a broad area of study and practice encompassing all nontechnical or 'human' aspects of medicine. This article introduces a series in the medical humanities in Australian Family Physician. The ...Open AccessArticle