Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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Missing the point: Rogers v Whitaker and the ethical ideal of informed and shared decision making
Published 1994-01-01The High Court's judgment in Rogers v Whitaker (1992) 175 CLR 479 has belatedly recognised as persuasive the values and attitudes of particular patients in what constitutes for them a significant treatment risk. The ...Open AccessArticle -
Racially-conditional donation: The example of umbilical cord blood
Published 2012-01-01While direction of donated tissue to family members has long been accepted, direction to members of specific racial groups has been opposed, on the basis that it is discriminatory and contrary to the ethos the institution ...Open AccessArticle -
Religious perspectives on umbilical cord blood banking
Published 2012-01-01Umbilical cord blood is a valuable source of haematopoietic stem cells. There is little information about whether religious affiliations have any bearing on attitudes to and decisions about its collection, donation and ...Open AccessArticle -
Umbilical cord blood banking: Beyond the public-private divide
Published 2012-01-01Umbilical cord blood is a source of haematopoietic progenitor cells, which are used to treat a range of malignant, genetic, metabolic and immune disorders. Until recently, cord blood was either collected through donations ...Open AccessArticle -
The Strengths and Limitations of Empirical Bioethics
Published 2010-01-01The past two decades have been witness to an "empirical turn" in bioethics. Whereas once this field of study concerned itself purely with theoretical analysis of ethical issues emerging in the design and delivery of health ...Open AccessArticle