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32Raising Rates of Childhood Vaccination: The Trade-off Between Coercion and TrustJournal of Bioethical Inquiry 15 (2): 199-209. 2018.Vaccination is a highly effective public health strategy that provides protection to both individuals and communities from a range of infectious diseases. Governments monitor vaccination rates carefully, as widespread use of a vaccine within a population is required to extend protection to the general population through “herd immunity,” which is important for protecting infants who are not yet fully vaccinated and others who are unable to undergo vaccination for medical or other reasons. Austral…Read more
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7Medical Ethics: Evolution, Rights and the Physician, by Henry A. ShenkinBioethics 6 (2): 166. 1992.
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26Response to Susan Dodds: Is the Australian HREC system sustainable?Monash Bioethics Review 21 (3). 2002.
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1From bioethics to microethics: Ethical debate and clinical medicineIn Paul A. Komesaroff (ed.), Troubled Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Postmodernism, Medical Ethics, and the Body, Duke University Press. pp. 62--86. 1995.
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30Body Talk in the Clinic as a Memoir of Real Lives: Katerina’s Story (review)Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 3 (3): 187-192. 2006.The secret worlds of life experience, culture, sexuality and emotions are often expressed through physical “symptoms”. The lived body becomes the entry point for professionals to enter the world of the patient. This article, arising out of a study of the experiences of Greek women at menopause, discusses the story of one woman and interprets the cultural and emotional inscriptions that are carried into the clinical setting. It illustrates the multiple layers of corporeal meaning engendered by me…Read more
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19The many faces of the clinic: A Levinasian viewIn Kay Toombs (ed.), Handbook of Phenomenology and Medicine, Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 317--330. 2001.
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Originally published in 1986. This work remains of compelling interest to those concerned with the natural sciences and their social problems. It puts forward original and unorthodox ideas about the philosophy of and sociology of science, starting from the conviction that modern societies face deep problems arising from unresolved dilemmas about the meaning, content and technical applications of the theories of nature they employ. The book draws on insights developed within a variety of traditio…Read more
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19Cross-Cultural Issues in Ethics: Context Is Everything: Commentary on “The Dilemma of Revealing Sensitive Information on Paternity Status in Arabian Social and Cultural Contexts” by Abdallah A. Adlan and Henk A. M. J. ten Have (review)Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 9 (4): 417-418. 2012.
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22The asia Pacific issue: Richness in diversity (review)Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 4 (3): 159-161. 2007.
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Introduction: postmodern medical ethicsIn Paul A. Komesaroff (ed.), Troubled Bodies: Critical Perspectives on Postmodernism, Medical Ethics, and the Body, Duke University Press. pp. 1--19. 1995.
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22Commentary on" A Phenomenology of Dyslexia"Philosophy, Psychiatry, and Psychology 5 (1): 21-23. 1998.
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1Bioethics in Australia : on politics, power, and the rise of the Christian rightIn Catherine Myser (ed.), Bioethics Around the Globe, Oxford University Press. 2011.
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46Troubled bodies: critical perspectives on postmodernism, medical ethics, and the body (edited book)Duke University Press. 1995.These essays examine the ways in which the consideration of ethical questions is shaped by the structures of knowledge and communication at work in clinical ...
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44It is time to move beyond a culture of unexamined assumptions, recrimination, and blame to one of systematic analysis and ethical dialogueAmerican Journal of Bioethics 11 (1). 2011.This Article does not have an abstract
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44Ebola, Ethics, and the Question of CultureJournal of Bioethical Inquiry 11 (4): 413-414. 2014.The Ebola virus disease epidemic in Western Africa has, in recent months, aroused growing alarm in Western countries. Attention has been drawn to the threat posed to the inhabitants of the region by what has undoubtedly become a major health emergency. As the death toll has mounted, increasingly strident calls for action have been voiced by nongovernmental organizations and international agencies active in the area, such as Médecins Sans Frontières and the World Health Organization and, more rec…Read more
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5On politics, power, and the rise of the Christian rightIn Catherine Myser (ed.), Bioethics Around the Globe, Oxford University Press. pp. 245. 2011.
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48The epistemology and ethics of journal reviewing: A second look (review)Journal of Bioethical Inquiry 5 (1): 3-6. 2008.
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36Murray, Samantha. 2008. The fat female body.: New York: Palgrave Macmillan, ISBN 9780230542587, 209 ppJournal of Bioethical Inquiry 6 (4): 515-517. 2009.