Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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Influences in the Social Worlds of Children of Mothers with Intellectual Disability
Published 2014-01-01Background Our understanding of childhood for children of mothers with intellectual disability is based on a small number of retrospective accounts which point to some social difficulties, including bullying and stigma. ...Open AccessThesis -
Generating a taxonomy of regulatory responses to emerging issues in biomedicine
Published 2005-01-01In the biomedical field, calls for the generation of new regulations or for the amendment of existing regulations often follow the emergence of apparently new research practices (such as embryonic stem cell research), ...Open AccessArticle -
The Violence of Care: An Analysis of Foucault’s Pastor
Published 2010-01-01Michel Foucault begins his 1977-1978 lecture series–Security, Territory, Population–by stating that he will investigate the vague concept of biopower introduced in The Will to Knowledge and Society Must Be Defended. ...Open AccessArticle -
Informed consent and medical ordeal: a qualitative study
Published 2008-09-03Background Informed consent is a mainstay of clinical practice, with both moral and legal force. Material disclosure about extreme treatments, however, is unlikely to convey the full impact of the experience of treatment. ...Open AccessArticle -
What might the voices of the second generation tell us?
Published 2006-01-01When I read the first question in the call for contributions for this special issue of Lesbian and Gay Psychology Review - ‘what shapes do queer families take?’ - I had an unexpected moment of recognition. I have a queer ...Open AccessArticle