Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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SARS and Security: Health in the 'New Normal'
Published 2009-01-01In "SARS and Security: Health in the "New Normal,"" Claire Hooker and Harris Ali illustrate how the boundaries between public health and national security are being blurred in the present age. The authors show how the "new ...Open AccessArticle -
Eugenics in Australia: Striving for national fitness
Published 2006-01-01This is the antiquarian’s or public historian’s bower of information about eugenics in Australia. Meticulously and extensively researched by a scholar familiar with the archives and documentary materials of eugenics ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
Zoonotic disease risk perceptions and infection control practices of Australian veterinarians: Call for change in work culture
Published 2013-01-01This study was conducted to determine the perceptions of zoonotic disease risk among Australian veterinarians, the infection control practices they use to protect themselves from zoonotic diseases, and the factors influencing ...Open AccessArticle -
Diphtheria and Australian Public Health: Bacteriology and its complex applications, c.1890-1930
Published 2002-01-01During the 1890s, the childhood infectious disease of diphtheria became closely identified with the emerging science of bacteriology and the new laboratory-based public health.' Along with the organisms causing typhoid ...Open AccessArticle -
An International Comparison of the Effect of Policy Shifts to Organ Donation Following Cardiocirculatory Death (DCD) on Donation Rates After Brain Death (DBD) and Transplantation Rates
Published 2013-01-01During the past decade an increasing number of countries have adopted policies that emphasize donation after cardiocirculatory death (DCD) in an attempt to address the widening gap between the demand for transplantable ...Open AccessArticle