Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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Caution needed in introduction of provisional approvals for medicines
Published 2017-01-01The Australian government recently released its response to the Review of Medicines and Medical Devices Regulation, accepting most recommendations. One recommendation involves the introduction of provisional approvals for ...Open AccessArticle -
A will and a way to fund medicines for rare diseases: the story of human growth hormone replacement for adults with growth hormone deficiency.
Published 2018-08-07Growth hormone (GH) replacement therapy was recently recommended by the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee (PBAC) for listing on the Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme for adults with severe GH deficiency and impaired ...Open AccessArticle -
Bulldust, flat tyres and roadkill: a disorderly decolonising fieldwork journey through remote Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australia
Published 2017-12-01The purpose of this paper is to discuss the iterations and outcomes of a doctoral fieldwork experience where the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander participants challenged me to radically adapt my constructivist grounded ...Open AccessArticle -
To follow a rule? On frontline clinicians’ understandings and embodiments of hospital-acquired infection prevention and control rules.
Published 2018-01-01This article reports on a study of clinicians’ responses to footage of their enactments of infection prevention and control. The study’s approach was to elicit clinicians’ reflections on and clarifications about the ...Open AccessArticle -
Should disclosure of conflict of interests in medicine be public? Medical students' views.
Published 2017-01-01Background: Conflicts of interest are considered to be ubiquitous in healthcare and biomedicine. Disclosure of relevant interests is a first step in managing conflicts, although its usefulness is contested. While several ...Open AccessArticle