Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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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 -
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 -
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 -
The global in global health is not a given.
Published 2017-01-01The process of globalization is commonly espoused as a means for promoting global health. Efforts to ‘go global’ can, however, easily go awry as a result of lack of attention to local social, economic and political contexts ...Open AccessArticle -
Conflicts of Interest in Australia’s IVF Industry: an empirical analysis and call for action
Published 2017-01-01In Australia, the growing assisted reproductive technologies (ART) industry has recently received some public criticism. Much of this criticism centres on the concern that doctors are increasingly motivated by profit, ...Open AccessArticle