Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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Suicide Risk Assessment: Where Are We Now? [Letter]
Published 2013-01-01Patients who present in psychological crisis or after a suicide attempt are more than 50 times more likely than the general population to die by suicide in the following year. They require careful assessment and management. ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
Communication, Confidentiality and Consent in Mental Health Care
Published 2014-01-01Families and friends play a vital role in the care and support of people with serious mental illness. However, caregivers often complain that treating teams do not adequately inform them of their loved one’s condition and ...Open AccessArticle -
The Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine
Published 2006-01-01Open AccessBook chapter -
Don’t panic about Ebola’s spread, here’s what we can do instead
Published 2014-09-11News that a 25-year-old Gold Coast man is being quarantined in hospital after returning from the Democratic Republic of Congo two days ago is no reason to panic. If anything, the incident highlights the problematic nature ...Open AccessArticle -
Shared Health Governance: The Potential Danger of Oppressive “Healthism”.
Published 2011-01-01We share an interest in public health and in the capabilities approach developed by Amartya Sen, Martha Nussbaum, and others (Comim, Qizilbash, and Alkire 2008; Sen 2009; Nussbaum 1999), so were curious to see how Jennifer ...Open AccessArticle