Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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The Lockhart Committee: developing policy through commitment to moral values, community and democratic processes
Published 2008-01-01The Lockhart Committee was appointed by the federal government in 2005 to review the Prohibition of Human Cloning Act 2002 (Cth) and the Research Involving Human Embryos Act 2002 (Cth). The issues in the review are ones ...Open AccessArticle -
Ethics and evidence-based medicine
Published 1998-01-01Evidence based medicine is based on a strong ethical and clinical ideal—that it allows the best evaluated methods of health care to be identified and enables patients and doctors to make better informed decisions Evidence ...Open AccessArticle -
Making clinical decisions when the stakes are high and the evidence unclear
Published 2004-01-01Children with peanut allergy are often provided with adrenaline (epinephrine) in case of a severe reaction. The probability of a life threatening reaction is low, however, and the criteria for provision are controversial. ...Open AccessArticle -
Evidence and desperation in off-label prescribing: recombinant factor VIIa
Published 2012-01-01Wendy Lipworth and colleagues explore why clinicians prescribe recombinant f actor VIIa off-label for major haemorrhage, despite a lack of supporting evidence—and why this mattersOpen AccessArticle -
Marjorie Shiels (née Collins) 1895-1970: Pioneering Ecologist
Published 1999-01-01Open AccessArticle