Sydney Health Ethics: Recent submissions
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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 -
Psychiatry, genocide and the National Socialist State: lessons learnt, ignored and forgotten.
Published 2017-01-01The genocide of European Jews perpetrated by the National Socialist (Nazi) regime in Germany and its satellites was a distinctly modern event. The bureaucratised and industrialised nature of the Nazi plan (the Endlösung ...Open AccessBook chapter -
Financial motives drive some doctors’ decisions to offer IVF
Published 2017-11-02Around one in 25 Australian babies are conceived using assisted reproductive technologies (ART), including in-vitro fertilisation (IVF). These interventions are almost all offered in private fertility clinics, backed by a ...Open AccessArticle -
Smoking prevalence among lesbian, bisexual and queer women in Sydney remains high: analysis of trends and correlates
Published 2017-02-17Introduction and Aims: To investigate smoking prevalence trends and correlates among lesbian, bisexual and queer-identifying (LBQ) women in Sydney, Australia. Design and Methods – Data from 5007 respondents to a repeated ...Open AccessArticle