Faculty of Medicine and Health: Recent submissions
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How Important is Healthcare‑Contact Time to Systemic Treatment Decision‑Making in Advanced Gastrointestinal Cancers: Developing Attributes to Include in a Discrete Choice Experiment
Published 2025Abstract Background People receiving treatment for advanced cancer invest substantial portions of their survival time receiving healthcare, labelled the ‘time toxicity’ of treatment. Although qualitative research has ...Open AccessArticle -
“The Cancer is My Life”: patient and caregiver perceptions of the time toxicity of palliative systemic cancer treatments for advanced gastrointestinal cancers
Published 2025Purpose Treatment for advanced cancer entails substantial time commitments, which has been labelled the ‘time toxicity’ of treatment, though the perspectives of people affected by cancer are still being established. We ...Open AccessArticle -
ARC Industry Laureate Fellowship project newsletter
Published 2025The five-year Australian Research Council (ARC) Industry Laureate Fellowship project, led by Professor Jennifer Smith-Merry, continues to make strong progress toward improving outcomes for people with psychosocial disability ...Open AccessNewsletter -
Phenomenology of humiliation: feeling injustice in healthcare
Published 2025In this paper, I show how humiliation, as a moral emotion, is a pervasive yet neglected dimension of medicine, health and ethics discourse. Although often conflated with shame, humiliation names a distinct self-conscious ...Open AccessArticle -
The Cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme: Australia’s Print‐Media Discourse
Published 2025This paper examines the way that Australian newspapers have framed the cost of the National Disability Insurance Scheme (NDIS). Introduced in 2013, the NDIS represented a major change in Australia's disability support ...Open AccessArticle