Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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Do consumer groups really advocate for the public interest?
Published 2013-08-22The Guardian recently claimed to have exposed an attempt by a number of pharmaceutical companies to thwart efforts by the European drug regulator (the European Medicines Agency) to have all clinical trial data made ...Open AccessArticle -
Abandoning clinical trial safeguards won’t boost local industry
Published 2013-10-07Testing new drugs in clinical trials is a billion-dollar industry in Australia, with most of the money coming from international pharmaceutical companies. But as investment grows in India, China, and other emerging ...Open AccessArticle -
EBM and Epistemological Imperialism: Narrowing the divide between evidence and illness
Published 2011-01-01Evidence Based Medicine (EBM) is an approach to clinical practice that relies on the use of systematically reviewed published clinical research of high quality. Whilst there is some speculation as to whether a true consensus ...Open AccessArticle -
Homeopathy, Phenomenology and the Unprejudiced Observer. Letter in response to Swayne and Whitmarsh
Published 2014-01-01The belief that ‘homeopathy works’, is effective and can demonstrate clinical efficacy, while encouraging, has little to do with the philosophy, practice or relevance of phenomenology to homeopathy. Jeremy Swayne’s editorial ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
Beyond the consulting room: intuition and intersubjectivity in journal peer review
Published 2009-01-01Imagine for a moment that you have been asked to review a manuscript for a peer reviewed psychiatric journal. The manuscript reports the results of a randomised trial of a new anti-depressant. What approach would you take? ...Open AccessArticle