Oral Presentation

Lisa Dive1 1 Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, Level 1, Medical Foundation Building K25, The University of Sydney, NSW 2006, lisa.dive@sydney.edu.au While it has been subjected to significant scrutiny and debate over the years, the value...

Xavier Symons1 1 Research Associate, Institute for Ethics and Society, University of Notre Dame Australia. L1, 104 Broadway (PO Box 944), Broadway NSW 2007. Email: xavier.symons@nd.edu.au Many bioethicists have considered the question, ‘is appropriate for a doctor to be involved...

David Matas1 1 Faculty of Law, University of Manitoba, 602-225 Vaughan Street, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, R3C 1T7, dmatas@mts.net Because of a shortage of organs, patients in need of transplants wait long periods and become desperate, spurring transplant tourism. What are...

Dr Susan Hertzberg1 1Prince Of Wales Hospital The era of modern of cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) began in the late 1950s and despite evolving recommendations to improve outcomes, the rate of successful resuscitation remains disappointingly low. CPR was originally developed to...

Jennifer (Jenny) Jones1, Professor Amanda Henderson2, Assoc Professor Marion Mitchell3, Petra Strube4, Dr Sarah Winch5 1 Clinical Ethics Coordinator, Metro South Clinical Ethics Service, Metro South Health 2 Griffith University, Brisbane 3 Griffith University, Brisbane and Princess Alexandra Hospital, Brisbane 4 Princess Alexandra Hospital,...

Gwendolyn L Gilbert1, Ian Kerridge1, 1 Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine and Marie Bashir Institute for Emerging Infections and Biosecurity, University of Sydney, NSW 2006 (lyn.gilbert@sydney.edu.au) There is ample evidence that doctors comply relatively poorly with...

Benjamin Tassie1, Bronwen Morrell2, 1 St Vincent’s Hospital, Sydney, 390 Victoria Street, Darlinghurst, Sydney 2010 2 Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, Level 1, Medical Foundation Building, K25, University of Sydney, NSW 2006 In recent years global...

Wendy Rogers 1, Heather Draper 2, Jackie Leach Scully 3, Greg Moorlock2 1 Macquarie University, NSW 2109, wendy.rogers@mq.edu.au 2 University of Birmingham, Edgbaston, Birmingham B15 2TT, UK 3 Newcastle University, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear NE1 7RU, UK In...

Deirdre Fetherstonhaugh1, Linda McAuliffe1, Michael Bauer1, Christopher Shanley2, Elizabeth Beattie3 1 La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria 3086 d.fetherstonhaugh@latrobe.edu.au 2 University of New South Wales, Kensington, New South Wales 2052 3 Queensland University of Technology Victoria Park, Kelvin Grove, 4059 Brisbane,...

Joanna Manning1 1 Faculty of Law, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland 1142, New Zealand Because of the extreme difficulty of proving sponsor and/or investigator negligence and a causal link between any such negligence and participant injury, there is...