Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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The ethical commitments of health promotion practitioners: an empirical study from New South Wales, Australia
Published 2012-01-01In this article, we provide a description of the good in health promotion. This description comes from an empirical study of health promotion practices in New South Wales, the most populous state in Australia. Through ...Open AccessArticle -
Why might people donate tissue for cancer research? Insights from organ/tissue/blood donation and clinical research
Published 2008-01-01Little is known about why patients with cancer do or do not donate their tissue for research. A review of the literature on motivations to participate in clinical research and to donate tissues/organs for therapeutic use ...Open AccessArticle -
Making decisions in the mechanistic, probabilistic and scientific domains of medicine: a qualitative study of medical practitioners
Published 2011-01-01Rationale, aims and objectives: To find out how medical practitioners perceive the processes of decision-making in the context of the individual patient and to examine the importance of decision- making in the development ...Open AccessArticle -
Turf war? Woolies' health checks fuss not just about patients
Published 2014-07-02When supermarket chain Woolworths announced plans to offer in-store “health checks” earlier this week, health groups came out in force to criticise the move. But scratch the surface and it’s apparent that the criticisms ...Open AccessArticle -
Does the Weight of Evidence Signal the End of Homeopathy?
Published 2014-04-17The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) recently completed a review of the evidence for homeopathy’s effectiveness and, after analysing systematic reviews of clinical trials, concluded there was “no reliable ...Open AccessArticle