A/Prof. Deirdre Fetherstonhaugh1, Professor Elizabeth Beattie2, Dr Maria O’Reilly3, Mr Mitchell McMaster4, Professor Wendy Moyle5, Dr Elaine Fielding2 1La Trobe University, Bundoora, Australia, 2Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia, 3Central Queensland University, Bundaberg, Australia, 4Australian National University, Canberra, Australia, 5Griffith...
- August 9, 2018
Constitution of ‘the dying’: Voluntary assisted dying law reform in the Australian state of Victoria
Courtney Hempton,1Catherine Mills1 1Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia. In June 2019 Victoria will become the first state in Australia to provide access to lawful ‘voluntary assisted dying’. Voluntary assisted dying refers to ‘assistance to die provided in medical context’, and...
- July 2, 2018
Tracey Carver1, Dr Malcolm Smith1 1Senior Lecturer, QUT Law School, Australian Centre for Health Law Research, QUT Faculty of Law In Montgomery v Lanarkshire Health Board [2015] AC 1430, the UK Supreme Court confirmed that, under the law of negligence and...
- June 28, 2018
Dr Andrew McGee1, Dr Drew Carter2 1Australian Centre for Health Law Research, QUT, Brisbane, Australia, 2Adelaide Health Technology Assessment (AHTA), School of Public Health, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia This presentation examines what has been called the Equivalence Thesis in...
- June 25, 2018
Dr Judith Kennedy1 1Consulting Rooms, Manly, Australia Medical practitioners treat patients. They can also make a wider contribution to society through opportunistic use of the treatment episode for activities such as research, teaching or encouraging organ donation. Irrespective of the...
- June 15, 2018
Nicole Shepherd1 1University Of Queensland, Herston, Australia In this talk I present an analysis of program designed to support people with serious mental illness to live in the community. Policy documents and interviews with 95 staff involved in program delivery...
- June 13, 2018
Prof. Rachel A. Ankeny1, Karina Burns 1University Of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia This paper considers ethical issues relating to the use of native animals as emerging models in contemporary Australian research. Native animals often hold special social and cultural significance both within...
- June 13, 2018
A/Prof. David Hunter1 1Flinders University, Adelaide, Australia The National Statement forbids the use of inducements to recruit research participants, but allows the appropriate compensation of participants for the time, inconvenience and out of pocket expenses involved in participating. One form...
- June 13, 2018
Prof. Angus Dawson1 1Sydney Health Ethics, University Of Sydney, Australia For the purposes of this talk I assume that in bioethics we wish to establish a substantive ethical conclusion about some issue in health or the life sciences. In the...
- June 13, 2018
Dr Chris Degeling1, A/Prof Tess Lea3, Dr Victoria Brookes4, Prof Michael Ward4 1Research For Social Change, Faculty of Social Science, University of Wollongong, Australia, 2Sydney Health Ethics, University of Sydney , Australia , 3Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Dept....
- June 13, 2018