Research Publications and Outputs: Recent submissions
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Genomics, health records, database linkage and privacy
Published 2011-01-01This paper outlines the current state of the art, future developments and main ethical issues that arise in the context of genomics, health records, database linkage and privacy. Current oversight and potential questions ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
“Why should we offer screening for Down syndrome anyway?”
Published 2014-08-12The details of a surrogacy case involving an Australian couple commissioning a pregnancy in Thailand have created outrage in all sorts of quarters. But the father’s admission that he would have asked the surrogate mother ...Open AccessArticle -
Reforming research ethics committees (Editorial).
Published 2005-01-01For the first 25 years of their existence in the United Kingdom research ethics committees were left more or less in peace by the Department of Health. Since the publication of the “red book” in 1991, 1 however, they have ...Open AccessArticle -
Building Clinical Ethics Capacity, Final Report of the Developing Clinical Ethics Capacity in NSW Partnership project 2014
Published 2014-09-01Clinical ethics support services are an established feature of health care in the US and Canada and are becoming so in the UK, France, Belgium and elsewhere in Europe. They are yet to be widely established in NSW or ...Open AccessReport, Technical -
Commentary: Consent and confidentiality in publishing—the view of the BMJ’s ethics committee,
Published 2008-01-01Two years ago four paediatricians and an ethicist submitted to the BMJa case study as an ethical debate which the BMJ decided not to publish because the authors had not obtained the consent of the patient’s parents for ...Open AccessArticle