Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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Ethics, evidence and economics in the pursuit of “personalized medicine”
Published 2014-01-01Abstract: Despite enthusiastic advocacy for what personalized medicine might be able to deliver and major investments into the development of this, there remain disappointingly few examples of personalized medicine ...Open AccessArticle -
Should biomedical publishing be ‘opened-up’? Towards a values-based peer-review process.
Published 2011-01-01Peer review of manuscripts for biomedical journals has become a subject of intense ethical debate. One of the most contentious issues is whether or not peer review should be anonymous. This study aimed to generate a rich, ...Open AccessArticle -
Engaging transplantation ethics
Published 2004-01-01Reviewed book: Ethical eye: Transplants, Peter Morris (editor). Strasbourg: Council of Europe, 2003 (258 pp). ISBN 92 871 4779 5. Through its Ethical eye series, the Council of Europe has addressed a number of recent ...Open AccessArticle -
The intention to hasten death: a survey of attitudes and practices of surgeons in Australia
Published 2001-01-01Objective: To determine attitudes among surgeons in Australia to assisted death, and the proportion of surgeons who have intentionally hastened death with or without an explicit request. Design: Anonymous, cross-sectional, ...Open AccessArticle -
Rethinking the discordance between guidelines and practice in rheumatoid arthritis treatment A failure of practice, or a failure of evidence?
Published 2011-01-01drug treatment of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) has evolved significantly in recent decades, owing to increasing evidence supporting early intervention with disease-modifying therapies and the advent of novel biological ...Open AccessArticle