Faculty of Medicine and Health: Recent submissions
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The direct-to-consumer market for stem cell-based interventions in Australia: Exploring the experiences of patients Special Report
Published 2020-01-01The prevalence of businesses selling autologous stem cell-based interventions (ASCBI) to patients in Australia has raised serious concerns about how weaknesses in regulation have enabled the emergence of an industry that ...Open AccessArticle -
Transvaginal mesh, gender, and the ethics of clinical innovation
Published 2020-01-01On the 10th of October 2018, Australian Health Minister Greg Hunt issued a national apology to the Australian women who experienced “horrific outcomes” following surgery using transvaginal mesh—acknowledging the “historic ...Open AccessArticle -
Does consumer engagement in health technology assessment enhance or undermine equity?
Published 2020-01-01Consumer engagement in decisions about the funding of medicines is often framed as a good in and of itself, and as an activity that should be universally encouraged. A common justification for calls for consumer engagement ...Open AccessArticle -
A major new alliance in Australian healthcare: the Australian consensus framework for ethical collaboration in the healthcare sector
Published 2020-01-01The “Australian Consensus Framework for Ethical Collaboration in the Healthcare Sector” (ACF) is an Australian initiative aimed at countering dysfunction and growing mistrust in the health sector through the development ...Open AccessArticle -
Against the use and publication of contemporary unethical research: the case of Chinese transplant research
Published 2020-01-01Recent calls for retraction of a large body of Chinese transplant research and of Dr. Jiankui He’ gene editing research has led to renewed interest in the question of publication, retraction and use of unethical biomedical ...Open AccessArticle