Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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Challenges to pharmaceutical policymaking: lessons from Australia’s National Medicines Policy
Published 2014-01-01Objective: National medicines policies (NMPs) provide a means for governments to achieve their objectives in relation to pharmaceuticals and other medicines. This research aimed to identify challenges to implementing the ...Open AccessArticle -
Another argument for values-based medicine
Published 2011-01-01There is a contemporary dialectic concerning the status of evidence-based medicine, criticising it for being ‘scientistic’, epistemologically inconsistent, rigid and dismissive of non-numerical sources of knowledge. A ...Open AccessArticle -
Managing scientific uncertainty in health legislation
Published 2007-01-01Legislation and regulation are one means of controlling biomedical research and its clinical applications. This is seldom a one-off process since biomedical science evolves rapidly, dynamically and often unpredictably, and ...Open AccessArticle -
The ‘EBM movement’: Where did it come from, where is it going, and why does it matter?
Published 2008-01-01Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) has now been part of the dominant medical paradigm for 15 years, and has been frequently debated and progressively modified. One question about EBM that has not yet been considered systematically, ...Open AccessArticle -
China’s pharma scandal and the ethics of the global drug market
Published 2013-09-19China is in the midst of conducting a series of corruption investigations of pharmaceutical companies that have been operating in the country. It all started with the investigation of officials from pharmaceutical company ...Open AccessArticle