Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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Globalisation and the ethics of transnational biobank networks
Published 2017-12-01Biobanks are increasingly being linked together into global networks in order to maximise their capacity to identify causes of and treatments for disease. While there is great optimism about the potential of these biobank ...Open AccessArticle -
Communicating with the public about the risks of naturally occurring asbestos.
Published 2017-01-01Objectives: To explore the application of evidence based risk communication to community messaging about naturally occurring asbestos (NOA). Type of program or service: Risk communication education about NOA. Methods: ...Open AccessArticle -
Reconceptualizing Autonomy for Bioethics
Published 2018-01-01Autonomy plays a central role in bioethics, but there is no consensus as to how we should understand this concept. This paper critically considers three different conceptions of autonomy: the default conception prevalent ...Open AccessArticle -
Autonomy, information and paternalism in clinical communication
Published 2017-11-07While their paper does not explicitly define the concept of autonomy, the way Ubel et al describe clinicians’ failures to enhance their patients’ autonomy reflects a broader understanding of autonomy than the default account ...Open AccessArticle -
The dangers of neglecting non-financial conflicts of interest in health and medicine
Published 2017-01-01Non-financial interests, and the conflicts of interest that may result from them, are frequently overlooked in biomedicine. This is partly due to the complex and varied nature of these interests, and the limited evidence ...Open AccessArticle