Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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A journal for and with health promotion practitioners and researchers
Published 2013-10-30Representatives of the Journal’s editorial team enjoyed meeting practitioners and researchers during a workshop at the recent Australian Health Promotion Association National Conference in Sydney. We appreciated this ...Open AccessArticle -
A justifiable alternative
Published 2005-08-19The granting of a licence to avoid the birth of children carrying the retinoblastoma gene marks another direction for pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD). Selection is no longer against disease, but susceptibility. A ...Open AccessArticle -
Pastoral Power and the Confessing Subject in Patient-Centred Communication
Published 2009-01-01This paper examines the power relations in “patient-centred communication”. Drawing on the work of Michel Foucault I argue that while patient-centred communication frees the patient from particular aspects of medical ...Open AccessArticle -
Often it is not worth all of the heartache
Published 2005-08-11PATERNITY tests re often the culmination of years of gnawing doubt. But they can have unforeseen consequences for family relationships. DNA testing has made the physical process of paternity testing straightforward. This ...Open AccessArticle -
New test for Down’s raises important ethical questions
Published 2011-10-29For a pregnant woman, easily and safely finding out for certain whether her baby will have Down’s syndrome is an attractive prospect. The point of non-invasive prenatal diagnosis (NIPD), as with current tests, is to give ...Open AccessArticle