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It’s time for the government to stop shooting the messenger | VELiM
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A Blog for the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine. It’s time for the government to stop shooting the messenger. Propaganda or cost of innovation? The high price of new drugs. Policing parenting: is the Family Court going to punish you for having a drink? Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:. Address never made public). You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. ( Log Out. Notify me of new comments via email.
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Julie Mooney-Somers | VELiM
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A Blog for the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine. More citations, new audiences, and memes… who doesn’t want that? On the way back from teaching a bunch of HREC members. About ethics in qualitative research I stopped at the delightful Berkelouw Book Barn. For tea and cake. The sun beamed in the window, warming up my right side, while a fire blazed, warming up my left side. And I drafted a blog post. Was ready to go live. In a great post for Writing For Research. And going right there, and...
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ASR | VELiM
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A Blog for the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine. The Walking Wounded calls for a rethink of what we most value. Starting with Karl Marx, many thinkers have pointed out that the creative potential of the capitalist economic system comes at a cost the lack of inherent ethical scruples to limit the inexorable logic of profit and growth. ABC TV’s Four Corners’ exposé of the scandal about a defective medical hip replacement device known as ASR is a case in point. The Walking Wounded. Fear and...
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academic independence | VELiM
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A Blog for the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine. EVENT: Symposium on Academic Publishing and the Futures of Research. The Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine (VELiM) is hosting an event on the academic publishing industry and the commercialization of knowledge production. Outlined some of the concerns associated with current academic publishing practice. Professor Paul Komesaroff (Monash), who will also be part of the symposium, argues that more open and democratic models o...
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AMA | VELiM
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A Blog for the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine. Let’s stop the bullying of trainee doctors for patients’ sake. Size matters. At least, that seems to be the media’s belief when it comes to analysing social problems. The grimmer the stories, the uglier the experience, the more bodies at the bottom of the cliff, the better. And Dr Talia Steed. In breaking the silence around the destruction of careers and health that doctors cause among their own. But most significantly, the show highlights...
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Contribute | VELiM
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A Blog for the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine. Although this blog primarily publishes pieces by researchers and PhD students associated with VELiM, we are open to contributions from Guest Bloggers. If you would like contribute something, first have a look at what we do publish to make sure your idea fits with the general scope of the blog and then contact either Christopher Mayes. Leave a Reply Cancel reply. Enter your comment here. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in:.
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How we can increase Australia’s organ donation rate | VELiM
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A Blog for the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine. How we can increase Australia’s organ donation rate. The Australian government has commissioned a private consultancy to review. The country’s poor organ donation rates. While the review may make some interesting observations, the answer to increasing the rate is already clear: we need to better manage patients nearing brain death. Even though there has been a small relative increase in the number of people who have received transplants 56...
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Policing parenting: is the Family Court going to punish you for having a drink? | VELiM
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A Blog for the Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine. Policing parenting: is the Family Court going to punish you for having a drink? News outlets have pounced on a Family Court order. For parents of a six-year-old boy to not smoke around the child and to limit their alcohol consumption while caring for him. Readers commented. That the case represents an unacceptable intervention by the courts into the personal space of the individual , and that it was an attempt at social engineering”. State...
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Hipócrates o Hipócritas?: Reproducción humana, decisión social o individual
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Somos un grupo heterogéneo y multilinguístico de profesionales de la salud que se ha propuesto escribir sobre temas de actualidad, relacionados con la salud, ética, y su gestión, desde un humilde punto de vista. Lunes, 14 de marzo de 2011. Reproducción humana, decisión social o individual. Continuando con el debate sobre la sostenibilidad del estado del bienestar la comunidad de Madrid se está planteanado una serie de medidas de recorte del gasto sanitario, en un informe. En segundo lugar, deberíamos det...
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Hipócrates o Hipócritas?: abril 2011
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Somos un grupo heterogéneo y multilinguístico de profesionales de la salud que se ha propuesto escribir sobre temas de actualidad, relacionados con la salud, ética, y su gestión, desde un humilde punto de vista. Lunes, 4 de abril de 2011. Y ESOS LOCOS BAJITOS, ¿CUANDO OPINAN? 8220;A menudo los hijos se nos parecen, y así nos dan la primera satisfacción.”. La semana pasada conocimos el nacimiento del primer bebe en España libre de una enfermedad genética. 8220;fines beneficiosos”. En concreto, padres sord...
