Kim Forrester
Kim Forrester
The roles of registered nurses, enrolled nurses, nurse practitioners and midwives in the administration of medications are subject to the legislation and regulation in their respective States and Territories in Australia. Underpinning this ...
Grant Gillett
Grant Gillett
The Cartwright Report was released at a time of massive ethical change in New Zealand medicine, the shock waves spreading throughout the region as they caught the surge of interest in patient autonomy and patient rights. The mood was as rev...
Linda Mileshkin,Danny Sullivan
Linda Mileshkin
Expensive anti-cancer drugs expose controversy underlying the process for resource allocation decisions, and intermittently result in marked publicity, emotive discussions about access to novel and expensive treatments, and political involv...
Laws to detain individuals with substance dependency: breaching human rights or restoring health? [0.03%]
管控成瘾者的法令：侵犯人权还是康复医疗？
Bernadette McSherry,Sarah Lenthall
Bernadette McSherry
At the turn of the 20th century in the United Kingdom and Australia, legislation was introduced to detain and treat "inebriates". Since that time, variations of such laws have continued to exist. This column examines current laws in Austral...
Ian Freckelton
Ian Freckelton
A series of developments in relation to the accountability of expert witnesses and the admissibility of their opinions is taking place. This extends to encroachments in the United Kingdom on expert witness immunity, the imposition of discip...
Editorial
Journal of law and medicine. 2011 Dec;19(2):209-24. DOI: 2011
The need for a regulatory response to diagnosis fraud in mesothelioma cases [0.03%]
对间皮瘤病例诊断欺诈的监管回应之需求
Rohan Price
Rohan Price
Australian courts and tribunals allow claimants with pleural plaques to "piggy back" compensation claims for mental health problems. This article contends that Australia is open to an era of diagnosis fraud by psychologists similar to that ...
Young children as regenerative tissue donors: considering the need for legal reform in light of divergent ethical approaches [0.03%]
论年轻儿童作为再生医学供体：基于不同的伦理方法考虑立法改革的必要性
Shih-Ning Then
Shih-Ning Then
In Australia, young children who lack decision-making capacity can have regenerative tissue removed to treat another person suffering from a severe or life-threatening disease. While great good can potentially result from this as the recipi...
Grant Niemann
Grant Niemann
International humanitarian law requires medical practitioners to be given "respect and protection" when serving as medical practitioners in the military. A component of this legal assurance is that when military medical personnel base their...
The regulation of pharmacy ownership in Australia: the potential impact of changes to the health landscape [0.03%]
澳大利亚药房所有权的监管：医疗卫生体系变化的潜在影响
H Laetitia Hattingh
H Laetitia Hattingh
Australian community pharmacy ownership restrictions have been in place for many years. However, it is timely to review these structures in terms of the Commonwealth Government's proposed changes to the health care system and the need for f...
The regulatory pyramid meets the food pyramid: can regulatory theory improve controls on television food advertising to Australian children? [0.03%]
监管层级与食物层级相遇：管制理论能改善澳大利亚儿童电视食品广告的管制吗？
Belinda Reeve
Belinda Reeve
This article examines whether responsive regulation has potential to improve the regulatory framework which controls free-to-air television advertising to children, so that the regulatory scheme can be used more effectively as a tool for ob...