Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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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 -
Challenges to the validity of using medicine labels to categorise clinical behaviour: an empirical and normative critique of ‘off-label’ prescribing
Published 2016-01-01This study aimed to determine whether the label status of a medicine penetrates into the clinical reasoning of Australian medical practitioners and to explore the possible reasons for our findings using semistructured ...Open AccessArticle -
Scientism, conflicts of interest, and the marginalization of ethics
Published 2017-11-03Aim: This paper reports on the findings from 6 focus groups conducted with Australian medical students. The focus groups sought students' perspectives on how the influence of commercial interests on medical practice and ...Article