Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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You win some, you lose more
Published 2014-01-01Ratings consistently show Australians love reality television. In 2013 our favourite thing on TV was to watch one another singing, dancing, cooking and renovating. Every year producers dish up more contrived scenarios, ...Open AccessArticle -
A submission on the issues raised by the review of New South Wales Mental Health Act 2007
Published 2014-09-17The submission is based upon the issues raised in the Discussion Paper: Issues Arising under the NSW Mental Health Act 2007. Part I of the submission deals with issues relating to the criteria for detention and treatment ...Open AccessOther -
Meeting the call of the coroner: detention and release of patients under the Mental Health Act
Published 2011-01-01In a recent inquest into the death of a man discharged from a Sydney emergency department, the coroner commented that some staff of that hospital may have had “a less than satisfactory understanding of the provisions ...Open AccessArticle -
Quitting unassisted: the 50-year research neglect of a major public health phenomenon.
Published 2014-01-08Smoking cessation research today is dominated by the development and evaluation of interventions to improve the odds of quitting successfully. Yet little attention has been paid to the large majority of ex-smokers who quit ...Open AccessArticle -
Proposed changes to the function of the Mental Health Act will erode patient rights
Published 2010-01-01Imagine for a moment you ind yourself arrested in some foreign clime – Queensland, for example. You are told you have transgressed some northern law and are looking at several weeks inside. You are anxious, to ...Open AccessArticle