Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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Conflicts of interest in medicine: taking diversity seriously
Published 2017-01-01Background Conflicts of interest (COI) are considered ubiquitous in many healthcare arrangements (1) but there is disagreement on how COI should be defined, whether non-financial conflicts deserve attention, and the ...Open AccessArticle -
Access to high cost cancer medicines through the lens of an Australian Senate Inquiry - defining the 'goods' at stake.
Published 2017-01-01In Australia, the government is the primary payer for cancer medicines, and is supported by the Pharmaceutical Benefits Advisory Committee, which makes recommendations about which medicines should be funded on the ...Open AccessArticle -
The necessity for a commitment to beneficence and prudence in clinical innovation with autologous stem cells
Published 2018-01-01The term ‘innovation’ is frequently used as a justification for allowing clinicians to offer unproven autologous stem cell-based interventions (SCBI) to their patients. Proponents of this kind of innovation (which we refer ...Open AccessArticle -
An archaeology of corruption in medicine.
Published 2014-01-01Corruption is a word used loosely to describe many kinds of action that people find dis-tasteful. We prefer to reserve it for the intentional misuse of the good offices of an established social entity for private benefit ...Open AccessArticle -
Conflicted hope: social egg freezing and clinical conflicts of interest.
Published 2017-01-01Over the past decade ‘social egg freezing’ has emerged as a technology of hope that purports to empower women by enabling them to continue their careers or find the right partner without the fear of jeopardizing their ...Open AccessArticle