Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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Widening the debate about conflict of interest: addressing relationships between journalists and the pharmaceutical industry
Published 2012-01-01The phone-hacking scandal that led to the closure of the News of the World newspaper in Britain has prompted international debate about media practices and regulation. It is timely to broaden the discussion about journalistic ...Open AccessArticle -
Eliciting views of Australian Pharmaceutical industry employees on collaboration and the concept of Quality Use of Medicines
Published 2011-01-01Background: Pharmaceutical industry involvement in biomedicine has produced major benefits but has also caused concern. At present, there is no consensus as to how medical and government organizations should relate to the ...Open AccessArticle -
Beliefs and beyond: what can we learn from qualitative studies of lay people’s understandings of cancer risk?
Published 2010-01-01Background: Clinicians and public health professionals are centrally concerned with mediating risk. However people often resist the risk-related information that is communicated to them by experts, or have their own models ...Open AccessArticle -
Tissue donation to biobanks: a review of sociological studies
Published 2011-01-01Collections of human tissue (biobanks) are thought to be an essential resource for biomedical research. Biobanks, have however, been a source of debate in both bioethics and sociology. In recent years this theorizing has ...Open AccessArticle -
The perils of proxy outcomes in evidence-based medicine: the case of recombinant factor VIIa.
Published 2011-01-01There is currently a major controversy surrounding the off-label use of recombinant activated Factor VII (rFVIIa). The literature offers at best inconclusive support for its use in the management of bleeding in any situation ...Open AccessArticle