David Ranson
David Ranson
"Excited delirium" has become increasingly recognised as a medical entity that is typically associated with individuals suffering from a mental illness and/or affected by a variety of stimulant-type drugs. Because the diagnostic label has b...
Decriminalisation of abortion performed by qualified health practitioners under the Abortion Law Reform Act 2008 (Vic) [0.03%]
2008年《流产法改革法》（维多利亚）将合格卫生从业人员施行的流产去犯罪化
Danuta Mendelson
Danuta Mendelson
In 2008, the Victorian Parliament enacted the Abortion Law Reform Act 2008 (Vic) and amended the Crimes Act 1958 (Vic) to decriminalise terminations of pregnancy while making it a criminal offence for unqualified persons to carry out such p...
Sonia Allan
Sonia Allan
Donor conception has historically been shrouded in secrecy. Such secrecy has been underpinned by social views and legal issues concemrning the adults involved in the process--the donor, the recipient parent(s), and, at times, the doctor. Ho...
Editorial
Journal of law and medicine. 2012 Jun;19(4):631-50. DOI: 2012
Jeremy Prichard
Jeremy Prichard
This article counters arguments made by Bartels and Otlowski in 2010 regarding euthanasia. It suggests that the authors over-emphasised the importance of individual autonomy in its bearing on the euthanasia debate. Drawing on literature con...
Reinforcing historic distinctions between mental and physical injury: the impact of the civil liability reforms [0.03%]
强化精神伤害和身体伤害之间历史差异的区分：民事责任改革的影响
Christine Forster,Jeni Engel
Christine Forster
Mental injury has been differentiated from physical injury since its entry into Australian tort law, with mental injury consistently subject to the most onerous regime. In 2002 in its Review of the Law of Negligence, the Ipp Panel supported...
Executive impunity and parallel justice? The United Kingdom debate on secret inquests and inquiries [0.03%]
高层司法豁免与平行正义？英国关于秘密调查的辩论
Rebecca Scott Bray
Rebecca Scott Bray
At the beginning of 2008, the United Kingdom Government rolled into the Counter-Terrorism Bill some controversial proposals to reform coronial inquest processes, namely clauses that would provide for "secret inquests". The provisions were h...
Pandemic planning as risk management: how fared the Australian federation? [0.03%]
作为风险管理的流行病规划：澳大利亚联邦表现如何？
Terry Carney,Richard Bailey,Belinda Bennett
Terry Carney
The role of law in managing public health challenges such as influenza pandemics poses special challenges. This article reviews Australian plans in the context of the H1N1 09 experience to assess whether risk management was facilitated or i...
The ethical, legal and social implications of umbilical cord blood banking: learning important lessons from the protection of human genetic information [0.03%]
脐带血储存的伦理、法律和社会影响问题——从保护人类遗传信息中汲取重要经验教训
David Weisbrot
David Weisbrot
Internationally networked umbilical cord blood banks hold great promise for better clinical outcomes, but also raise a host of potential ethical and legal concerns. There is now significant accumulated experience in Australia and overseas w...
Paul A Komesaroff,Ian H Kerridge,Cameron Stewart et al.
Paul A Komesaroff et al.
While direction of donated tissue to family members has long been accepted, direction to members of specific racial groups has been opposed, on the basis that it is discriminatory and contrary to the ethos the institution of organ donation ...
Michelle A C O&#x;Connor,Gabrielle Samuel,Christopher F C Jordens et al.
Michelle A C O&#x;Connor et al.
Umbilical cord blood is a source of haematopoietic progenitor cells, which are used to treat a range of malignant, genetic, metabolic and immune disorders. Until recently, cord blood was either collected through donations to publicly funded...