Research Publications and Outputs: Recent submissions
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Do no harm: is it time to rethink the Hippocratic Oath?
Published 2014-01-01Introduction The 1964 revision of the Hippocratic Oath addressed the disconnection in language and context between the classical doctrine and 20th century medicine. Now, 50 years later, we argue that any revision of the ...Open AccessArticle -
Public Health Ethics: Cases Spanning the Globe
Published 2016-04-01Public health ethics can be seen both as the application of principles and norms to guide the practice of public health and as a process for identifying, analyzing, and resolving ethical issues inherent in the practice of ...Open AccessBook -
Habitus and Responsible Dog-ownership: reconsidering the health promotion implications of 'dog-shaped' holes in people's lives.
Published 2015-04-01Responsible dog ownership has been identified as a point of intervention to promote physical activity, based upon an expectation of dog walking in public space. Nevertheless, quantitative research has found variability ...Open AccessArticle -
The epistemic challenges of CTOs
Published 2014-01-01Controversy around the use of community treatment orders (CTOs) arises in part from their ambiguous evidence base. Recent research has provided valuable new insights into the effects of CTOs, while also highlighting the ...Open AccessArticle -
The Role of Personalized Choice in Decision Support: A Randomized Controlled Trial of an Online Decision Aid for Prostate Cancer Screening
Published 2016-04-01Importance Decision support tools can assist people to apply population-based evidence on benefits and harms to individual health decisions. A key question is whether “personalising” choice within decisions aids leads to ...Open AccessArticle