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Clinical Ethics Special Interest Group

AABHL Clinical Ethics Stream – Suggestions and Directions.

Thank you to all who answered our email. The response was encouraging and the comments more than helpful. All going well, we will be able to use the enthusiasm and comments to forge a nucleus of clinical ethics interest and expertise within AABHL.

Here are our initial thoughts about the priorities and direction of the Stream.

1. To have a satellite meeting associated with the AABHL conference, focusing on clinical ethics. This could be, for example, a half-day meeting immediately prior to the next AABHL conference. If this concept receives sufficient support, we will need to assemble an organizing group from within the stream to work with the main AABHL organizing committee.
2. To provide a resource group within AABHL for those seeking input and opinion on policy and protocol formulation. This might involve those within the Clinical Ethics Stream exchanging personal details, CV’s and the like, and listing areas in which they would be prepared to peruse discussion papers and offer opinions. Any comments provided would not be regarded as being on behalf of either AABHL or the stream. The stream would function in a facilitatory manner only, putting together small groups of two or more persons with expertise in specific areas, and who may be prepared to comment on certain issues as they see fit. Any personal information provided would be restricted to those who have ‘signed-up’ to the stream.
3. In a less formal manner, to provide a forum/discussion group for those within the stream who have specific problems or queries of a clinical ethics nature. This, again, would be a closed email discussion group, available to members of the stream. This is proposed instead of a blog or any sort of open access discussion forum that would require someone’s time and patience as a moderator. It was felt that a closed email list would be a better mechanism for discussion of specific issues, queries and problems.
4. Contributions to the Journal of Bioethical Inquiry. The JBI has a segment called ‘In That Case,’ that discusses contentious ethical scenarios. The Clinical Ethics Stream could consider a regular contribution to this part of the journal.
5. To act as a forum for sharing information on clinical ethics events – meetings, seminars and the like.

 

The above have been compiled in response to the suggestions we have received. Our primary objective is to foster an interactive group interested in clinical ethics, within AABHL. With this in mind, we invite your comments and further suggestions.

Wendy Rogers and Garth Thomas 

 

AABHL Special Interest Group

Stream Leaders

	Wendy Rogers is Professor of Clinical Ethics at Macquarie University. She has a long history of working in bioethics and clinical ethics, with research interests including evidence-based medicine, public health ethics, organ donation and research ethics. She has been a member of the Australian Health Ethics Committee (2003-6), the Medical Board of South Australia (2005-9) and is currently on a number of committees related to organ donation. She is a long-standing member of the International Network on Feminist Approaches to Bioethics (FAB) and has served in a variety of roles for FAB including as Co-ordinator (2006-8).
	Garth Thomas is a Consultant Anaesthetist in private practice in  Brisbane. A graduate of the University of Queensland, and a Fellow of the Australian and New Zealand College of Anaesthetists, he has practiced anaesthesia in provincial centers in both Queensland and New South Wales, and in the British National Health Service, before returning to Brisbane in 2000. He has an honors degree in Philosophy from the University of New England, and is currently undertaking PhD studies in Philosophy at the University of Queensland. He has an interest in metaphysics, and in both philosophical and clinical ethics, and has been a member of the Australian Medical Association's Ethics Committee in Queensland for several years. Recent publications and presentations have covered topics including the metaphysics of brain death, the interaction of ethics and metaphysics at the end of life, and legislative moves toward the mandatory reporting of medical misconduct.
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