Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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Condom negotiation across different relationship types by young women engaged in sex work in Phnom Penh, Cambodia
Published 2013-01-01Cambodia’s 100% Condom Use Programme is credited with an increase in consistent condom use in commercial sexual interactions and a decrease in HIV prevalence among female sex workers (FSWs). There has been little improvement ...Open AccessArticle -
Death tourism: Travelling for life-ending procedures
Published 2011-01-01This was how the final morning in the life of Dr John Elliot was reported on the front page of the Sydney Morning Heraldin January 2007. Dr Elliot, from NSW, was gravely ill with multiple myeloma, and had travelled to ...Open AccessArticle -
The Surgeon General's 'Smoking and Health': a continuing challenge
Published 2014-01-01In the USA, the Surgeon General occupies a position equivalent to director of public health or chief medical officer in countries such as Australia. They are the head of the USA Public Health Service, a branch of the ...Open AccessArticle -
Newcomers in a hazardous environment; a qualitative inquiry of sex worker vulnerability to HIV in Bali, Indonesia
Published 2014-01-01Background Women new to sex work and those with a greater degree of mobility have higher risk of HIV infection. Using social capital as a theoretical framework, we argue that better understanding of the interactions of ...Open AccessArticle -
Impediments to “T2” research: Is research ethics really to blame?
Published 2010-01-01Ever since the emergence of the field of research ethics, concerns have existed about the possibility that regulation of research might “cripple”, if not eliminate, research in important fields (Beecher 1959). In recent ...Open AccessArticle, Letter