Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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The emergence and popularisation of autologous somatic cellular therapies in Australia: Therapeutic innovation or regulatory failure?
Published 2014-01-01Private stem cell clinics throughout Australia are providing autologous stem cell therapies for a range of chronic and debilitating illnesses despite the lack of published literature to support the clinical application of ...Open AccessArticle -
Should people with acute mental suffering be allowed to die?
Published 2014-11-14Euthanasia advocates often assert a distinction between dying with dignity (good) and suicide (bad), drawing on the community’s twin commitment to both permitting euthanasia in some circumstances, and preventing suicide. ...Open AccessArticle -
Navigating tissue banking regulation: conceptual frameworks for researchers, administrators, regulators and policy-makers.
Published 2005-01-01In the “post-genomic” age of biomedical research, researchers often wish to utilise collections of human tissue. This type of research raises many ethical and legal issues and anyone wishing to use such collections is ...Open AccessArticle -
Refusing medical treatment after attempted suicide : Rethinking capacity and coercive treatment in light of the Kerrie Wooltorton case
Published 2011-01-01The inquest into the death of Kerrie Wooltorton in Norfolk, England, ignited extensive public debate on the scope of the common law right to refuse medical treatment where a patient is distressed, depressed or actively ...Open AccessArticle -
Long time, no see. Australians with mental illnesses wait too long before independent review of detention
Published 2010-01-01Imagine that you found yourself arrested in a New South Wales country town; Dubbo, for example. The local constabulary tell you that you are guilty of some offence and that you are now looking at several weeks inside. You ...Open AccessArticle