Mercy Health - Bulletins

Vol 17 No 3 Autumn 2012		Ethically Compromised Vaccines in Australia Continuing the Pregnancy When the Unborn Child has a Life-Limiting Condition

Vol 17 No 2 Summer 2011		Ethically Compromised Vaccines and Catholic Teaching Home or Away? A Choice for Catholic Healthcare

Vol 17 No 1 Spring 2011		Remaining True Ethical Challenges for Catholic Health and Aged Care

Volume 16 No 4 Winter 2011		Australia’s Cloning and Embryo Research Laws Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Gamete Donation

Volume 16 No 3 Autum 2011		Catholic Identity and Health Care Australia’s National Protocol for Organ Donation after Cardiac Death Gene Patents

Volume 16 No 2 Summer 2010		Euthanasia in Western Australia 2010: Background and Analysis Physician Assisted Suicide in the United States of America Catholic Teaching about Tube Feeding

Volume 16 No 1 Spring 2010		Youth Mental Health Adoption is Better than Abortion Paying Women for Egg 'Donation'

Volume 15 No 4 Winter 2010		Finding Meaning in Serious Illness and Suffering Euthanasia - A Dutch Perspective Genetic Testing and Insurance

Volume 15 No 3 Autumn 2010		Sexualisation of Girls - Too Much, Too Soon Caring for People with Dimentia The Australian Guidelines to Reduce Health Rissk from Drinking Alcohol

Volume 15 No 2 Summer 2009		The Victorian Abortion Law - One Year On "Law Reform" and Abortion in Queensland Chemical Abortion in Australia Ovarian Hyperstimulation Syndrome and Egg Donation

Volume 15 No 1 Spring 2009		Caritas in Veritate Eating Disorders Lessons From A Memoir

Volume 14 No 4 Winter 2009		Obstetric Fistula Caring for Ageing Persons: Attending to All The Issues Ethical Decision Making Brain Death and the US President's Council on Bioethics

Volume 14 No 3 Autumn 2009		The Instruction Dignitas Personae Public Health and Human Rights Organ Donation after Cardiac Death Racial Discrimination and Health

Volume 14 No 2 Summer 2008		Ethical Aspects of Advance Care Planning Victorian Abortion Law Reform Bill 2008 Fetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders

Volume 14 No 1 Spring 2008		Female Genital Mutilation A Nurse's Perspective on the Victorian Euthanasia Bill Brain Death and the Catholic Church

Volume 13 No 4 Winter 2008		Federal and Victorian Euthanasia Bills Freedom in the End of Life Context Male Circumcision - Facts & Fiction Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Research

Volume 13 No 3 Autumn 2008		Laparoscopic Adjustable Gastric Banding:the miracle cure? Australian Research Code Preventing Pregnancy After Rape Emergency Medicine

Volume 13 No 2 Summer 2007		Australian Guidelines for Human Research Beyond Informed Consent - Part I Beyond Informed Consent - Part II NHMRC Statements on Post-Coma Unresponsiveness

Volume 13 No 1 Spring 2007		Abortion in Victoria The Integrity of Neonatal Care Anaesthesia and Ethics The Problem of Childhood Abuse

Volume 12 No 4 Winter 2007		Catholic Health Care and its Ethical Challenges A Natural Law Approach to Ethics and Morals The Harm of Non Disclosure Ethical Perspectives on Palliative Care

Volume 12 No 3 Autumn 2007		Predictive Testing for Huntington's Disease in Young Children Part 1 Predictive Testing for Huntington's Disease in Adolescents Part 2 Barriers to Rehabilitation Stem Cells, Altered Nuclear Transfer & Ethics

Volume 12 No 2 Summer 2006		Crisis: Young People Living in Aged Care Homes The Obesity Crisis Planning Future Health Care Reflections on Science, Medicine and Death

Volume 12 No 1 Spring 2006		Cooperation in Unethical Actions of Others Strengthening Professional Practice Emerging Transplantation Ethics Stem Cell Technology Update

Volume 11 No 4 Winter 2006		Impact of Spirituality on Making Ethical Healthcare Decisions Ethical Responses to Drug Abuse Chronic Pain – The Ethics of Care, Belief and Coping Aspartame: An Artificial Sweetener Under Review

Volume 11 No 3 Autumn 2006		Moral Worth and Invoilability of Unborn Children Drugs: Mode of Action, Prevalence and Reasons for Use Aboriginal Cultural Identity, Health and Ethics Ethical Issues in the Use of Implanted Medical Devices

Volume 11 No 2 Summer 2005		Risk to Human Health Posed by Avian Influenza Ethical Issues in the Management of Bird Flu Pandemic Sports Medicine and Ethics Indigenous Health

Volume 11 No 1 Spring 2005		Nanotechnology - Benefits and Risks The Rural Urban Health Divide Post-Coma Unresponsiveness Medically Administered Nutrition & Hydration and Ethics

Volume 10 No 4 Winter 2005		Care Ethics at the Edge of Neonatal Viability Health Care, Experimental Therapies, Research and Ethics Integrity in Clinical Research Ethical Issues in Complementary and Alternative Medicine

Volume 10 No 3 Autumn 2005		Abortion - Informing the Debate Unhappy Children - Disorder or Defence Highlights of Brian Pollard's Views on Palliative Care Benefits and Burdens of 'Routine' Antenatal Screening

Volume 10 No 2 Summer 2004		Reforming Health Care Elder Abuse in an Ageing World International Cloning and Stem Cell Policy Embryos, Cloning, Stem Cell Research & Ethics

Volume 10 No 1 Spring 2004		Anonymity in Gamete Donation Alert or Alarm - Adverse Events in Health Care The new Genetics: Therapy or Enhancement Biblical and Christian Tradition on Respecting Embryos

Volume 9 No 4 Winter 2004		The Pope on the Moral Obligation to Continue Tube Feeding for Patients in Post-Coma Unresponsiveness The Moral Distress of Nurses Anonymity in Gamete Donation Mental Health: Burdens and Challenges

Volume 9 No 3 Autumn 2004		Human- and Xeno-Transplantation Research and Ethics Privacy, Biometrics, Technology and Health Medical Technology: Master or Tool? Health Industry hit by 'Violence' Epidemic

Volume 9 No 2 Summer 2003		How Private is Our Privacy in Health Care? Safer Advances in ART? Special Need Children in mainstream Schools Risks and Ethics from Conception to Birth

Volume 9 No 1 Spring 2003		Safety Concerns in Reproductive Technology Is Population Mass Screening for Cancers always Beneficial? Medical Journalism - Benefits, Rights and Responsibilities Destruction of Human Embryos, Fetuses and Ethics

Volume 8 No 4 Winter 2003		Substance Abuse and Young People Conflicts of Interest, Healthcare & Scientific Integrity Inside Story Abortion and the Risk of Breast Cancer Book Review : Culture of Life – Culture of Death

Volume 8 No 3 Autumn 2003		The Impact of Demoralisation on Decision-Making Legal Issues at End of Life Care The Myth and Malady of Maternal Mood Disorders Ethical Issues in ADHD: Diagnosis and Management

Volume 8 No 2 Summer 2002		Highlights from "Challenges in End of Life Care" Conference - 31 October 2002 Treatment at the End of Life and Ethics Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis & Ethics Advocacy in Health Care

Volume 8 No 1 Spring 2002		Review of the Stem Cell Debate Embryo Research, Cloning and Ethics Health Ethics and Primary School Age Children Mental Health : How Should it be Treated?

Volume 7 No 4 Winter 2002		The Changing Face of Australian Health Care( Part 2) The Science and Ethics of Using Spare IVF Embryos for Research Clinical Practice, Clinical Audit, Quality Assurance, Research Wrongful Life and Wrongful Birth.

Volume 7 No 3 Autumn 2002		The Changing Face of Australian Health Care( Part 1) The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme and Some Difficult Decisions From Human Transplants to Xenotransplants Review Article: Life and Death in Healthcare Ethics

Volume 7 No 2 Summer 2001		"Ethical Issues in the Care of the Aged" – Report on a Conference held at St Vincent's Hospital Overview on the Dignity of the Human Person Young People and the Health Care System.

Volume 7 No 1 Spring 2001		Responsibilities of pregnant Women Futile Treatments Politics and a "Just" Health Care System Ethical Aspects of Treatment of Low Birth Weight Babies.

Volume 6 No 4 Winter 2001		Ethical Reflections on the Separation of Conjoined Twins Blowing the Whistle Ethical Issues Involved with Using Stored Tissue Samples for Genetic Research Who Should be Protected from Infection?

Volume 6 No 3 Autumn 2001		Who Determines Future Treatment? Should Smokers be Denied Certain Treatments? Ethical Guidelines: Are They Enough to Prevent Dangerous Research? Restraint - Can it be Ethically Justified?

Volume 6 No 2 Summer 2000		Mental Health: Posing Extra Problems for Accepted Ethical Standards Risk What do Adult Children Owe Their Ageing Parents in Matters of Health Care? Ethical Issues in the Use of Sedation in the Care of the Terminally Ill.

Volume 6 No 1 Spring 2000		Access to Infertility Clinics for Single Women and Lesbians? Late Term Abortion Living with Limits: Age as a Criterion in Health Care Distribution Therapeutic Use of Pluripotent Embryonic Stem Cells.

Volume 5 No 4 Winter 2000		Things Do Go Wrong in the Health System! Medical Research and Practice, the Public and Conflicts of Interest Ethics and Adolescent Health The Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) : Is it Equitable?

Volume 5 No 3 Autumn 2000		Social Capital and Health Genetic Counselling Health Ethics and the Media Ethical Issues in the use of Animals for Medical Purposes

Volume 5 No 2 Summer 1999		Is Every Isolated Embryonic Cell an Embryo? Conventional and Complementary Therapies Genetic Privacy: Families, Healthcare Professionals and the State Patient Records

Volume 5 No 1 Spring 1999		National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Research Involving Humans Health Care from a Distance - Telemedicine / telehealth! Genetic Therapy and Genetic Enhancement How to Find Out What is Morally Right or Wrong.

Volume 4 No 4 Winter 1999		Ethical Aspects of Treatment of Women Who Have Been Raped What Affects Health? Clinical Trials in Developing Countries: The Ethical Difficulties Withdrawing Tube Feeding-Medico-Moral Considerations.

Volume 4 No 3 Autumn 1999		Health Information? Rogers v Whitaker, Chappel v Hart and the Evolving Nature of Informed Consent Misuse of Prescription Medication Ethics and the Practice of Psychiatry. A Brief Review.

Volume 4 No 2 Summer 1998		HRT: To Take it or Not? Is Health Promotion Valuable? The Ethical Challenges of Alzheimer Disease and Our Ageing Population Is Relieving Distress for the Dying Euthanasia?

Volume 4 No 1 Spring 1998		Drugs and a Harm Minimisation Approach Culture and Ethics Review Article: Law and Medical Practice: Rights, Duties, Claims and Defences Material Cooperation and Abortion.

Volume 3 No 4 Winter 1998		Potential Benefits of Cloning Technology Gene Therapy, Patenting and Genetic Research The Elderly and Autonomy Artificial Hydration in Terminally Ill Patients: Is there an Ethical Obligation?

Volume 3 No 3 Autumn 1998		Transplantation - Where do the Organs and Tissues Come From? The Randomised Clinical Trial (RTC) The Human Genome Project: Issues and Problems Making Morally Responsible Decisions.

Volume 3 No 2 Summer 1997		Should We Always Tell the Truth? Human Experimentation Under Scrutiny The Human Genome and the New Genetics Some Ethical Concerns of Prenatal Diagnosis.

Volume 3 No 1 Spring 1997		What is Suffering? The Role of Pastoral Care in Treatment Decisions at the End of Life Informed Consent - The Challenge "Not-For-CPR": Practice and Problems.

Volume 2 No 4 Winter 1997		Euthanasia: a Clinical Perspective Who Cares and Who is Responsible for Immunising our Children? Disclosure and Informed Consent Victoria’s Infertility Treatment Act Duty of Care for a Foetus with a Lethal Abnormality

Volume 2 No 3 Autumn 1997		Protecting Our Children Suicide in Young and Old is a Challenge for Society Dying with Dignity: the Right to Refuse Medical Treatment in Australia The Human Person and Life's Journey

Volume 2 No 2 Summer 1996		Euthanasia: A Brief Examination Refusal of Medical Treatment and Suicide: Victoria's Medical Treatment Act 1988 The Health System -Where is it Going? Moral Respect Due to the Human Embryo

Volume 2 No 1 Spring 1996		Unravelling Casemix and the Networks When Does a Foetus First Feel Pain? Surrogate Motherhood: Is it Now Legal in Australia? Catholic Moral Teaching on Artificial Reproductive Technology

Volume 1 No 4 Winter 1996		Resourcing Health Care: Some Moral Reflections Problems of Health Care Resources HIV/AIDS & The Law: Sexual Transmission Offences Medical Reflections on Abortion Moral Reflections on Abortion

Volume 1 No 3 Autumn 1996		Euthanasia: The Perspective of Palliative Care Nurse Practitioners Youth Suicide and Suicide Prevention HIV Infection: Risky Business Morality, Use of Condoms and HIV Protection. HIV/AIDS and the Law: Transmission Offences

Volume 1 No 2 Summer 1996		Victoria's Infertility Treatment Act 1995 and Related Ethical & Moral Issues Euthanasia - Practical Issues for Nurses HIV/AIDS and Euthanasia Medical Confidentiality and its Limits

Volume 1 No 1 Spring 1995		Is Euthanasia Permissible? Comments on Victoria's Infertility Treatment Bill 1995. Euthanasia - Doctor's Dilemmas Should Euthanasia be Legalised?

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