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The salience of genomic information to reproductive autonomy: Australian healthcare professionals’ views on a changing prenatal testing landscapeNew Genetics and Society 43 (1). 2024.Genomic testing in prenatal care is rapidly advancing and it is now possible to obtain an entire fetal genome via a blood test administered in early pregnancy. In the pursuit of reproductive autonomy, more tests are being offered to more people, for an ever-increasing range of indications. Health professionals who provide pregnancy care are at the vanguard of prenatal testing, yet their views on the impact of technology advancements remain under-explored. Qualitative interviews with Australian h…Read more
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23Intertwined Interests in Expanded Prenatal Genetic Testing: The State’s Role in Facilitating Equitable AccessAmerican Journal of Bioethics 22 (2): 45-47. 2022.In their analysis of how much fetal genetic information prospective parents should be able to access, Bayefsky and Berkman determine that parents should only be able to access information th...
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14Choosing to Live with Harm? A Presentation of two Case Studies to Explore the Perspective of those who Experienced Adult Safeguarding InterventionsEthics and Social Welfare 11 (1): 33-46. 2017.
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39Anti-racist health care practice (review)International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 4 (2): 164-168. 2011.Elizabeth A. McGibbon and Josephine B. Etowa’s co-authored book Anti-racist Health Care Practice exposes and addresses systemic racism in the Canadian health-care system. McGibbon and Etowa directly confront racism in health provision and Canadian society, and provide a discussion of racism and related issues (gender, class) that does not hold back criticisms. The system of racial oppression and its sustenance by white privilege is presented to the reader in a clear and straightforward way, maki…Read more
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57Anti-racist health care practice, by Elizabeth A. McGibbon and Josephine B. EtowaInternational Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics 4 (2): 164-168. 2011.Elizabeth A. McGibbon and Josephine B. Etowa, Anti-racist health care practice, Toronto: Canadian Scholars’ Press, 2009, reviewed by Kathryn L. Mackay
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51In the case discussion, ‘Equity in Public Health Ethics: The Case of Menu Labelling Policy at the Local Level’ , Mah and Timming state that menu labelling would ‘place requirements for information disclosure on private sector food businesses, which, as a policy instrument, is arguably less intrusive than related activities such as requiring changes to the food content’. In this commentary on Mah and Timming’s case study, I focus on discussing how menu-labelling policy permits governments to avoi…Read more
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34Alcohol, Liberty, and Societal Change: What Should We Do About Our Drinking Problem?American Journal of Bioethics 15 (3): 12-14. 2015.
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Areas of Specialization
Applied Ethics |
Normative Ethics |
Social and Political Philosophy |
Philosophy, Misc |
Value Theory |