Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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Intimacy or Utility? Organ Donation and the Choice between Palliation and Ventilation.
Published 2013-01-01Organ donation after brain death provides the most important source for deceased organs for transplantation, both because of the number of potential organ donors that it makes available and also because of the unparalleled ...Open AccessArticle -
Public education and organ donation: untested assumptions and unexpected consequences
Published 2007-01-01While the number of individuals able to benefit from transplantation increases with technological developments, donation rates remain insufficient to cater for demand. A universal response to the insufficient number of ...Open AccessArticle -
Bone marrow necrosis following treatment for chronic myeloid leukaemia with STI-571
Published 2002-01-01Imatinib mesylate has recently been licensed for the treatment of selected patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). 1We report a case of bone marrow necrosis secondary to imatinib mesylate therapy in a patient ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
Pandemic and public health controls: toward an equitable compensation system
Published 2009-01-01There is increasing global concern about the potential impact of pandemic infections, including influenza, SARS and bioterrorist attacks involving infectious diseases. Many countries have prepared plans for responding to ...Open AccessArticle -
An empirical study of tissue banking in Australia: Navigating regulatory and ethical challenges
Published 2006-01-01Collections of tumour samples can be an invaluable resource for medical research. There are, however, numerous ethical and legal challenges associated with tumour banking. While there has been extensive discussion of these ...Open AccessArticle