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Past Masters and PhD Theses

PhD Theses

Julian Savulescu:
Good Reasons to Die
Udo Schuklenk:
Access to Experimental Drugs in Terminal Illness: Ethical Issues.
Giles Yates:
An Outcome-Dependent Approach to Competence Assessment.
Ian Olver:
A Highest Value on Life Ethic for Life or Death Decision Making

Master of Bioethics Theses

Julie Ashmore:
The impact of alternative organ procurement policies on altruism, gift-relationships and the potential manipulation of organ donors.
Brendan Baker:
Equality of Opportunity and Genetic Screening in the Workplace....
Meredith Bickley:
Ethical Issues in Medical Research Involving the Terminally Ill
Mary Birch:
Conscientious Objection in Clinical Nursing Practice
Anita Bourke:
Medicine and Compassion: What ought to be the place of compassion in the practice of medicine?
Lexie Brans:
The Adequacy of Gadows Existential Advocacy Theory of Caring in Nursing as a Normative Action Guide for the Nurse.
Catherine Britt:
Cultural values and differences in Aboriginal birthing practices
Leslie Cannold:
Womens Response to Ectogenesis, and the Relevance of Severance Abortion Theory.
Neil Crompton:
The Moral Obligations of Geriatricians to their Patients Unpaid Caregivers
Andrew Crowden:
Patient Competence and Informed Consent: The Development of a Model for Effective and Ethically Justifiable Competence Evaluation in Clinical Situations.
Geraint Duggan:
Is there a Conflict in the Clinical Trials Process between the Therapeutic Needs of Patients with Cancer and AIDS and the Requirement that Clinical Trials Provide scientifically Valid Data?
Rowan Frew:
Active Voluntary Euthanasia - A Case for Victoria
Giuliana Fuscaldo:
Prenatal Diagnosis - Are There Justifiable Limits?
Patrick Gallagher:
Resource Allocation in the Victorian Public Health Sector - Is Medical Interest Dominance Ethically Permissible?
Dawn Gleeson:
Privacy and Confidentiality in Presymptomatic Genetic Testing.
Margaret Grigg:
Schizophrenia, Autonomy and Strong Paternalism - Can Health Care Professionals be Justified in Overriding the Autonomous Desires of a Person with Schizophrenia?
John Hoogeveen:
Resource Allocation and the Ethics of DRG/Casemix Funding.
Susan Hunter:
The Moral Responsibility of Registered Nurses for Acute Pain Management.
Alison Hutchinson:
Is Xenotransplantation Morally Permissible?
Leonie Katekar:
In Vitro Fertilisation in Post-Menopausal Women - Ought it be Publicly Funded?
Coral-lee Keep:
Is it Ever Morally Permissible to Withhold or Withdraw Artificial Hydration and Nutrition in Palliative Care?
Susan Lee:
The Nurse-Patient Relationship: Caring and Virtue, A Comparative Study.
Julie Letts:
Medical Futility, Treatment Withdrawal and the Critically Ill.
David Macintosh:
The Physician-Patient Relationship: Some Moral Aspects - The Value of R M Hares Two-Level Theory of Morality.
Susan McCullough:
The Ultimate Recycling Programme.
Lois J. McDonough:
In Aged Care: When Should Paternalism Override Autonomy
Catherine Martin:
A Renal quandary: considerations and guidelines for patients, families and healthcare professionals involved in the treatment of end-stage renal failure.
Marjorie Milburn:
Justice, the Law and Informed Choice of Medical Services for mentally competent consumers in a liberal democratic society.
Michael Millward:
Clinical Trials of New Cancer Treatments - Do they Exploit Patients?
Geraldine Milton:
Birth Plans: Implications for Autonomous Decision Making during Childbirth.
Hiroto Nagaoka:
What are the plausible grounds for the equation between whole brain death and the death of an individual, and their implications for the procurement of organs from anencephalic babies?
John OSullivan:
The Inappropriateness of the Common Law Courts as a Forum for the Resolution of Bioethical Issues.
Kerry Peart:
Ethical Issues of Routine Ultrasound
Fiona Pyers:
Does DRG/Casemix-Based funding meet standards of justice fairness?
Carole Scott:
Renal Dialysis: Who Decides and Who Should Decide?
Merle Spriggs:
Autonomy and Shattered Assumptions.
Alison Stubbs:
Research in General Practice: Ethical Issues
Danny Sullivan:
Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose: An Autonomy-based framework for Involuntary Commitment Laws.
Beverley Touzel:
Non-Feeding of Infants with Disabilities, and Whistleblowing: The Role and Responsibilities of the Nurse.
Beverley Walker:
When Can Midwives Override the Autonomy of the Woman when Making a Choice about the Nutrition of her Newborn Baby?
Marie West:
The Moral Significance of Dying with Dignity
Carole Wigg:
Justice and Resource Allocation for Child Health Care: What is the Position of Extremely Low Birth-Weight Babies?

Centre for Human Bioethics