Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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How Pharmaceutical Industry Employees Manage Competing Moral Commitments
Published 2013-01-01The pharmaceutical industry has been criticised for pervasive misconduct. These concerns have generally resulted in increasing regulation. While such regulation is no doubt necessary, it tends to assume that everyone working ...Open AccessArticle -
VALUES-BASED MEDICINE AND MODEST FOUNDATIONALISM
Published 2012-01-01Values-based medicine can be interpreted in economic terms as the medicine that delivers the most benefit for a given cost. But values have another meaning in philosophy. They refer to the basic commitments that justify ...Open AccessArticle -
Meaning and value in medical school curricula
Published 2012-01-01Rationale, aims and objectives: Bioethics and professionalism are standard subjects in medical training programs, and these curricula reflect particular representations of meaning and practice. It is important that these ...Open AccessArticle -
Health journalists’ perceptions of their professional roles and responsibilities for ensuring the veracity of reports of health research
Published 2012-01-01Health industries attempt to influence the public through the news media and through their relationships with expert academics and opinion leaders. This paper reports the results of a study of journalists’ perceptions ...Open AccessArticle -
Shifting power relations and the ethics of journal peer review
Published 2011-01-01Background: Peer-review of manuscripts has recently become a subject of academic research and ethical debate. Critics of the review process argue that it is a means by which powerful members of the scientific community ...Open AccessArticle