Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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The Walking Wounded calls for a rethink of what we most value
Published 2014-05-27Starting with Karl Marx, many thinkers have pointed out that the creative potential of the capitalist economic system comes at a cost – the lack of inherent ethical scruples to limit the inexorable logic of profit and ...Open AccessArticle -
It’s a dog’s life when man’s best friend becomes his fattest
Published 2013-01-24A study published this morning in Nature offers further insight into how dogs became domesticated. The comparative analysis of human, canine and wolf genomes suggests that humans and dogs have evolved in parallel as a ...Open AccessArticle -
Academics on the payroll: the advertising you don’t see
Published 2014-06-18In the endless drive to get people’s attention, advertising is going ‘native’, creeping in to places formerly reserved for editorial content. In this Native Advertising series we find out what it looks like, if readers can ...Open AccessArticle -
Narrative research in health and illness [book review]
Published 2005-01-01Is “narrative” a story, a drama, or a life? Is it a general class of text? According to this collection, narrative can be any of these things—and more. This raises an interesting question. Why do researchers focus on ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
Of mice and men: role of mice in biomedical research questioned
Published 2013-02-21A study recently published in the peer-reviewed journal PNAS (Proceedings of the National of Academy Sciences) shows that mice are poor models for human inflammatory diseases. The paper, which focused on sepsis, burns ...Open AccessArticle