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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 -
Missing the point: Rogers v Whitaker and the ethical ideal of informed and shared decision making
Published 1994-01-01The High Court's judgment in Rogers v Whitaker (1992) 175 CLR 479 has belatedly recognised as persuasive the values and attitudes of particular patients in what constitutes for them a significant treatment risk. The ...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 -
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 -
Values, ethics and the law--Issues for practice and education
Published 1998-01-01ABSTRACT For many years, thoughtful medical practitioners have concerned themselves with the place of health services and medicine in their social setting. They have recognized that there are genuine moral dilemmas which ...Open AccessArticle -
Brain gain: a future of genetically enhanced intelligence
Published 1999-01-01Developments in genetics have made it difficult to reject the existence of a genetic component of intelligence. Genetic research will soon describe the genetic components of intelligence and their interactions with ...Open AccessArticle -
Marjorie Shiels (née Collins) 1895-1970: Pioneering Ecologist
Published 1999-01-01Open AccessArticle -
The illness trajectory or the illness journey – what’s in a metaphor?
Published 1999-01-01Open AccessArticle -
Negotiating desire and sexual subjectivity: Narratives of young Lesbian Avengers
Published 2000-01-01This paper examines the negotiation and interpretation of first experiences of sexual desire in a group of 8 young women who identify as Lesbian Avengers, using in depth narrative interviews. Accounts of desire and its ...Open AccessArticle -
LEADING COMMENT: Children of lesbian mothers: From the 1970s to the new millennium
Published 2000-01-01In both the popular and academic media, lesbian and gay parenting is the issue of the moment. Recent examples include the case of two gay men fathering twins with a surrogate mother in the US; the results of a study of gay ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
Young lesbians and mental health: The closet is a depressing place to be
Published 2000-01-01In this chapter we examine mental health issues in young lesbians, drawing on a recent interview study conducted with a group of Lesbian Avengers. Some of the difficulties that these young women experienced included rejection ...Open AccessBook chapter -
The importance of ideas of community in early Australian infectious disease control
Published 2001-01-01Open AccessArticle -
The intention to hasten death: a survey of attitudes and practices of surgeons in Australia
Published 2001-01-01Objective: To determine attitudes among surgeons in Australia to assisted death, and the proportion of surgeons who have intentionally hastened death with or without an explicit request. Design: Anonymous, cross-sectional, ...Open AccessArticle -
The shock of the new: ethics, law and the introduction of public access defibrillation
Published 2001-01-01There have been recent moves to include Public Access Defibrillation (PAD) in emergency response strategies. The value of this development is explored in this article. The benefits and limitations of extending AutomaticExternal ...Open AccessArticle -
Dr Ida Brown and the development of Australian palaeontology
Published 2001-01-01Open AccessArticle -
Worshipping at the Alpine Altar: promoting tobacco in a world without advertising.
Published 2001-12-01“Glisten. The party to go with your glamourpuss dress.” “Glisten. Music to go with your rock star hair.” “Glisten. Cocktails to go with your spanking ring.” (“Minimum age 18. Photo ID required. Tobacco & alcohol products ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
Diphtheria and Australian Public Health: Bacteriology and its complex applications, c.1890-1930
Published 2002-01-01During the 1890s, the childhood infectious disease of diphtheria became closely identified with the emerging science of bacteriology and the new laboratory-based public health.' Along with the organisms causing typhoid ...Open AccessArticle -
Bone marrow necrosis following treatment for chronic myeloid leukaemia with STI-571
Published 2002-01-01Imatinib mesylate has recently been licensed for the treatment of selected patients with chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML). 1We report a case of bone marrow necrosis secondary to imatinib mesylate therapy in a patient ...Open AccessArticle, Letter -
Review: “From chance to choice: genetics and justice” by Allen Buchanan, Dan W. Brock, Norman Daniels and Daniel Wikler
Published 2002-01-01A Buchanan, D W Brock, N Daniels, et al. Cambridge University Press, 2000, £17.95, $US29.95, pp 398. ISBN 0521660017 With over 10 000 bases of DNA being sequenced around the world per minute, it is vital that ethical ...Open AccessArticle