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Ethics and law

Mental health emergency transport: the pot-holed road to care

Joanne F Bradbury, Matt Ireland and Helen Stasa

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (6): 348-351 Free

Potentially incapable patients objecting to treatment: doctors’ powers and duties

Kerri Eagle and Christopher J Ryan

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (6): 352-354 Free

Liability in the context of misdiagnosis of melanoma in Australia

Melody R Abikhair, Patrick D Mahar, Adrian R Cachia and John W Kelly

Med J Aust 2014; 200 (2): 119-121 Free

Life insurance and genetic test results: a mutation carrier's fight to achieve full cover

Louise A Keogh and Margaret F A Otlowski

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (5): 363-366 Free

Research using autologous cord blood — time for a policy change

Michael X Han and Maria E Craig

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (4): 288-299 Free

Ethical and legal issues raised by cord blood banking — the challenges of the new bioeconomy

Cameron L Stewart, Lorena C Aparicio and Ian H Kerridge

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (4): 290-292 Free

Access to the Commonwealth electoral roll for medical research

Bebe Loff, Elissa A Campbell, Deborah C Glass, Helen L Kelsall, Claudia Slegers, Deborah R Zion, Ngaire J Brown and Lin Fritschi

Med J Aust 2013; 199 (2): 128-130 Free

Direct-to-consumer genetic testing — where should we focus the policy debate?

Timothy Caulfield and Pascal Borry

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (9): 499-500

Direct-to-consumer genetic testing — a regulatory nightmare?

Dianne Nicol and Meredith Hagger

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (9): 501-502

Open disclosure: ethical, professional and legal obligations, and the way forward for regulation

Angus J F Finlay, Cameron L Stewart and Malcolm Parker

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (8): 445-448 Free

Direct-to-consumer genetic testing — clinical considerations

Ronald J Trent

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (9): 496-498

Emerging inequality and potential unconstitutionality — the case for reform of the intern priority system

Dev A S Kevat and Fiona J Lander

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (6): 334-337 Free

Ethics in medicine: is it a futile exercise?

Dominic J C Wilkinson

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (4): 220

What is futile and who decides? The clinician’s dilemma

Bogda Koczwara

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (4): 221-222

Futile treatment: the ethicist’s perspective

Dominic J C Wilkinson

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (4): 223-224

Legal perspectives on consent in disputes about futile care

Cameron L Stewart

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (4): 225-226

Legal considerations of consent and privacy in the context of clinical photography in Australian medical practice

Patrick D Mahar, Peter A Foley, Alexander Sheed-Finck and Christopher S Baker

Med J Aust 2013; 198 (1): 48-49 Free

A no-fault compensation system for medical injury is long overdue

David Weisbrot and Kerry J Breen

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (5): 296-298 Free

How best do we compensate for accidental medical injuries?

Julian L Rait

Med J Aust 2012; 197 (5): 299-300

Out of sight, out of mind: making involuntary community treatment visible in the mental health system

Edwina M Light, Ian H Kerridge, Christopher J Ryan and Michael D Robertson

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (9): 591-593 Free

Autonomy versus futility? Barriers to good clinical practice in end-of-life care: a Queensland case

Sean Lawrence, Lindy Willmott, Eleanor Milligan, Sarah Winch, Ben White and Malcolm Parker

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (6): 404-405 Free

A defence of the requirement to seek consent to withhold and withdraw futile treatments

Cameron L Stewart

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (6): 406-408 Free

Challenges to Australia’s national health policy from trade and investment agreements

Deborah H Gleeson, Kyla S Tienhaara and Thomas A Faunce

Med J Aust 2012; 196 (5): 354-356 Free

Competence and capacity at the end of life: uneasy paternalism

Brian H Le and Michael D Chapman

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (8): 476-477

Should efforts to minimise DNA contamination of forensic swabs be standardised across Australia?

J Anne S Smith

Med J Aust 2011; 195 (7): 416-419