Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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Increasing diversity at the cost of decreasing equity? Issues raised by the establishment of Australia's first religiously affiliated medical school,
Published 2005-01-01Medical education in Australia is about to undergo major changes, with the founding of six new medical schools, including the first private medical school and the first religiously affiliated medical school in Australia. ...Open AccessArticle -
Animals-as-patients: improving the practice of animal experimentation
Published 2012-01-01In this paper we propose a new way of conceptualizing animals in experimentation – the animal-as-patient. Construing and treating animals as patients offers a way of successfully addressing some of the entrenched epistemological ...Open AccessArticle -
Hendra in the news: public policy meets public morality at a time of zoonotic uncertainty
Published 2013-01-01Public discourses have influence on policymaking for emerging health issues. Media representations of unfolding events, scientific uncertainty, and real and perceived risks shape public acceptance of health policy and ...Open AccessArticle -
An investigation of the association between socio-demographic factors, dog-exercise requirements, and the amount of walking dogs receive
Published 2012-01-01Risk factors associated with canine obesity include the amount of walking a dog receives. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationships between canine exercise requirements, socio-demographic factors, and ...Open AccessArticle -
Symposium editorial: A Public Health Ethics Approach to Non-Communicable Diseases
Published 2013-01-01Although bioethicists have written about public health problems for many decades (e.g., Faden and Faden 1978; Bayer and Moreno 1986), public health ethics as a distinct field is not much older than the Journal of Bioethical ...Open AccessArticle, Letter