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?