Rational rejection? The ethical complications of assessing organ transplant candidates in the United Kingdom and the United States [0.03%]
理性拒绝?英国和美国器官移植供体评估的伦理问题
Lisa Cherkassky
Lisa Cherkassky
The practice of allocating scarce organs in medicine is an ethical minefield. Due to the organ shortage, organ procurement agencies in both the United Kingdom and the United States are placed in the unenviable position of having to choose a...
Barbara Carter
Barbara Carter
Adult guardianship in English-speaking countries has its roots firmly planted in the protective parens patriae principle. In the last 20 years, in response to societal changes and international developments, concerns about human rights have...
"Chartering" the limits of involuntary psychiatric treatment in Victoria: interpreting the Mental Health Act 1986 (Vic) in the age of the Charter of Human Rights and Responsibilities Act 2006 (Vic) [0.03%]
《-chartering》论维多利亚州精神病非自愿治疗的限度:从人权法案的角度解释《1986年(维多利亚)》
Owen Bradfield
Owen Bradfield
The Mental Health Act 1986 (Vic) allows for individuals with a serious mental illness to be treated on an involuntary basis either in a psychiatric hospital (on an involuntary treatment order) or in the community (on a community treatment o...
Assisted reproduction and mental illness: a human rights perspective from New Zealand [0.03%]
辅助生育与精神疾病:来自新西兰的人权视角
Nicholas Fancourt
Nicholas Fancourt
Developments in our ability to artificially assist reproduction have led to new and more social applications for medicine. Parallel to this has been an increasing acceptance and understanding of mental illness. Yet it may be argued that men...
Codes of professional conduct for Australian Defence Force military physicians: evenomating the serpent? [0.03%]
澳大利亚国防军军事医师的职业行为准则:使毒蛇充血?
Mike OConnor
Mike OConnor
The scandal of health professionals' involvement in recent human rights abuses in United States military detention centres has prompted concern that Australian military physicians should be well protected against similar pressures to partic...
Another hospital saga: the chronicles of Professor Kossmann and Bayside Health [0.03%]
另一場醫院風暴:科斯曼教授與碧海湾医院记事
Vanessa Taylor
Vanessa Taylor
There is almost a tradition in Australia for the suspect practices of hospitals to be exposed by whistleblowers rather than official governance or accreditation processes. The Bundaberg, King Edward, Canberra, Campbelltown and Camden hospit...
How do disciplinary tribunals evaluate the "gut feelings" of doctors? An analysis of Dutch tribunal decisions, 2000-2008 [0.03%]
荷兰法院在审理医疗纠纷时如何评价医生的临床直觉?2000至2008年间相关判决分析
Erik Stolper,Johan Legemaate,Geert Jan Dinant
Erik Stolper
A sense of alarm, which is a form of "gut feeling" sometimes plays a part in the decisions of medical disciplinary tribunals in The Netherlands. Since these judgments are regarded as setting standards for professional attitudes in The Nethe...
Regulating for compassion? [0.03%]
监管中的同理心?
Ron Paterson
Ron Paterson
In 2009, the Health and Disability Commissioner considered whether a right to be treated with compassion should be added to New Zealand's Code of Health and Disability Services Consumers' Rights. Before making his recommendation, the Commis...
Tabet v Gett: the end of loss of chance actions in Australia? [0.03%]
Tabet诉Gett案:澳大利亚“丧失程序权利”时代的终结?
Greg Walsh,Anna Walsh
Greg Walsh
This article critically analyses the recent High Court decision in Tabet v Gett (2010) 84 ALJR 292; [2010] HCA 12 which considered whether a person should be able to obtain compensation on the basis of a loss of a chance of a better medical...
The Vioxx pharmaceutical scandal: Peterson v Merke Sharpe & Dohme (Aust) Pty Ltd (2010) 184 FCR 1 [0.03%]
文罗素案的药物事件:Peterson诉Merke Sharpe & Dohme (Aus) Pty Ltd(2010)184FCR1
Thomas Faunce,Ruth Townsend,Alexandra McEwan
Thomas Faunce
In early March 2010, Federal Court Justice Jessup in Peterson v Merke Sharpe & Dohme (Aust) Pty Ltd (2010) 184 FCR 1 ruled that Merke Sharpe & Dohme Pty Ltd had produced a defective product contrary to the Trade Practices Act 1974 (Cth), th...