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Ethical arguments concerning human-animal chimera research: a systematic review
BackgroundThe burgeoning field of biomedical research involving the mixture of human and animal materials has attracted significant ethical...
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Beyond the IRB: Examining common but rarely explored ethical issues in psychosocial research
This article discusses common ethical and practical considerations in psychosocial and behavioral research in healthcare. Issues such as appropriate...
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Mind the gap: Griffith University’s approach to the governance of ethical conduct in human research
It is perhaps not coincidental that, at the same time the apparent institutional risks associated with the conduct of human research are increasing,...
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Prenatal diagnosis: discrimination, medicalisation and eugenics
Prenatal Diagnosis (PD) includes diagnostic procedures carried out during the antenatal period, together with Preconception Screening (PS) of...
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Multidisciplinary insights on the evolving role of the ethics committee in an Australian regional hospital
The insights provided by a multi-disciplinary mix of health professionals from an acute medical ward of a regional Australian hospital indicate the...
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The ethics of complementary and alternative medicine research: a case study of Traditional Chinese Medicine at the University of Technology, Sydney
This article considers various approaches used in complementary and alternative medicine research, and discusses the challenges that reviewing such...
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The UNESCO Bioethics Declaration ‘social responsibility ’ principle and cost-effectiveness price evaluations for essential medicines
The United Nations Scientific, Education and Cultural Organisation (UNESCO) has commenced drafting a Universal Bioethics Declaration. Some in the...
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Design constraints for the post-human future
A variety of objections to human germ-line genetic engineering have been raised, such as the claim that we ought not to place individuals at...
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Community without communitarianism: HIV/AIDS research, prevention and treatment in Australia and the develo** world
The advent of HIV focussed broad social attention on the group of people most affected by it in Australia, the so-called ‘gay community’. However,...
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Should older and postmenopausal women have access to assisted reproductive technology?
In vitro fertilisation and other assisted reproductive technologies (ART) now enable many women to have children, who would otherwise have remained...
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Human cloning and ‘posthuman’ society
Since early 1997, when the creation of Dolly the sheep by somatic cell nuclear transfer was announced in Nature, numerous government reports, essays,...
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Bioethical and legal perspectives on xenotransplantation
As scientific research continues to push forward the once seemingly insurmountable barriers of medical research, xenotransplantation has been viewed...
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‘Miracle in Iowa’: Metaphor, analogy, and anachronism in the history of bioethics
The term ‘bioethics’ is commonly associated with debates prompted by innovations in medical technology, yet the issues raised by bioethics are not...
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Eugenics — so what’s wrong with improving the quality of the human species?
Given the intense desire of most parents to maximise the opportunities that are available to their children there will be immense pressure to...