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Danger of more abortions but choice can be protected
Published 2008-06-21Free foetal DNA esting can be done ethically provided he right conditions are in place. Pregnant women must receive high-quality information and he optional nature of esting must also be reinforced. One reason hat women ...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 -
Data to accompany “Career Preferences and Opinions on Animal Welfare and Ethics: A Survey of Veterinary Students in Australia and New Zealand.”
Published 2015-10-23These data accompany 'Career Preferences and Opinions on Animal Welfare and Ethics: A Survey of Veterinary Students in Australia and New Zealand'. The article has the following abstract: Historically, the veterinary ...Open AccessDataset -
The Deadly Business of an Unregulated Global Stem Cell Industry
Published 2017-03-29In 2016, the Office of the State Coroner of New South Wales released its report into the death of an Australian woman, Sheila Drysdale, who had died from complications of an autologous stem cell procedure at a Sydney clinic. ...Open AccessArticle -
Death of the ‘Blockbuster’and ‘Pivotal’ Clinical Trial: Rethinking the Drug Development Process
Published 2011-01-01Unprecedented developments in genomics, proteomics, immunology and cellular biology have promised a plethora of new targets for pharmacotherapy. The hope has been that targeting pharmacotherapy to ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
Death tourism: Travelling for life-ending procedures
Published 2011-01-01This was how the final morning in the life of Dr John Elliot was reported on the front page of the Sydney Morning Heraldin January 2007. Dr Elliot, from NSW, was gravely ill with multiple myeloma, and had travelled to ...Open AccessArticle -
Debates about conflict of interest in medicine: Deconstructing a divided discourse.
Published 2017-01-01Rationale: The pharmaceutical industry plays an increasingly dominant role in health care, raising concerns about “conflicts of interest” (COI) on the part of the medical professionals who interact with the industry. These ...Open AccessArticle -
Decision Making in a Crowded Room: The Relational Significance of Social Roles in Decisions to Proceed With Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplantation
Published 2011-01-01Researchers studying health care decision making generally focus on the interaction that unfolds between patients and health professionals.Using the example of allogeneic bone marrow transplant, in this article we identify ...Open AccessArticle -
Decision Making in the Shadow of Death
Published 2016-04-01It is often assumed that decision-making is a completely rational process. In reality, of course, numerous heuristics and biases influence the way we think and the decisions we make in clinical, research and policy contexts. ...Open AccessArticle -
The Decision to Withhold Resuscitation in Australia: Problems, Hospital Policy and Legal Uncertainty
Published 1994-01-01Decisions to withhold cardio-pulmonary resuscitation (CPR) should provide explicit clinical and ethical justification, be stated in an unambiguous manner, and be formally documented in the medical chart. Even so, the legal ...Open AccessArticle -
Declarations, Accusations and Judgement: Examining conflict of interest discourses as performative speech-acts.
Published 2016-04-01Concerns over conflicts of interest (COI) in academic research and medical practice continue to provoke a great deal of discussion. What is most obvious in this discourse is that when COIs are declared, or perceived to ...Open AccessArticle -
Decoding disclosure: Comparing conflict of interest policy among the United States, France, and Australia.
Published 2018-01-01“Sunshine” policy, aimed at making financial ties between health professionals and industry publicly transparent, has recently gone global. Given that transparency is not the sole means of managing conflict of interest, ...Open AccessArticle -
Decoration or communication? A qualitative study of images displayed around the bedsides of hospitalised children
Published 2009-01-01It is common to find images displayed around the bedsides of sick children who are hospitalized for extended periods. We report a qualitative study of bedside displays that is based on photographs taken at the bedside, and ...Open AccessArticle -
Defending ‘secrecy’: why removing donor anonymity may not be a good idea
Published 2003-04-28Should children conceived through the use of donated gametes have access to information identifying their donors when they reach maturity? The UK Government is expected soon to decide that, from now on, the answer to this ...Open AccessArticle -
Defining Medical Futility in Ethics, Law and Clinical Practice: An Exercise in Futility?
Published 1997-01-01The debate as to the meaning of medical futility and what physicians should do in clinical practice dates back to the time of the writings of Hippocrates and Plato where it was said, "To attempt futile treatment is to ...Open AccessArticle -
A definition and ethical evaluation of overdiagnosis
Published 2016-07-08Overdiagnosis is an emerging problem in health policy and practice: we address its definition and ethical implications. We argue that the definition of overdiagnosis should be expressed at the level of populations. Consider ...Open AccessArticle -
A definition and ethical evaluation of overdiagnosis: response to commentaries.
Published 2016-01-01It is a privilege to have respected colleagues engage with our definition and ethical evaluation of overdiagnosis. In our response to the commentaries, we first deal with paradigmatic issues: the place of realism, the ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
Deliberately Personal: The politics of tobacco control in NSW
Published 2006-01-01In this paper we examine some of the main features of public discourse concerning tobacco control, analysing parliamentary debate in New South Wales between 1980 and 2003. We ask both how deeply tobacco industry discursive ...Open AccessArticle -
A Delphi Survey and Analysis of Expert Perspectives on One3Health in Australia
Published 2017-01-01One Health (OH) is an interdisciplinary approach aiming to achieve optimal health for humans, animals and their environments. Case reports and systematic reviews of success are emerging; however, discussion of barriers and ...Open AccessArticle -
Demands for access to new therapies: are there alternatives to accelerated access?
Published 2017-10-02Patients deserve timely access to new therapies, but the rhetoric surrounding accelerated access impedes rational policy making.It is almost impossible to turn on the television or open a newspaper without hearing about ...Open AccessArticle