Table of Contents

Foreword by The Hon Justice Michael Kirby AC CMG

Introduction

Ian Kerridge, Christopher Jordens and Emma-Jane Sayers

PART 1: ETHICS IN MEDICINE

Is there a distinctively surgical ethics?

Commentaries by Michael Fearnside and Bernadette Tobin

The fivefold root of an ethics of surgery

Commentaries by Paul McNeill and Russell Gruen

Does reading poetry make you a better clinician?

Commentaries by Murray Bail, Jill Gordon and Stan Goulston

Euthanasia and the meaning of a life

Commentary by Roger Magnusson

PART 2: PHILOSOPHY AND MEDICINE

Assignments of meaning in Epidemiology

Commentary by Alison Moore and Jason Grossman

Better than numbers – a gentle critique of evidence-based medicine

Commentaries by Rachel Ankeny, Les Bokey, Robin Downie, Steve Leeder, Melissa Sweet, Rob Simons and Natalie Gray

Research, ethics and conflicts of interest

Commentary by Nancy Dubler

Logic, hermeneutics and informed consent

see Commentary by Michael Carey

On trust

Commentary by Merrilyn Walton and Michael Carey

Resource constraints and moral pressures

see Commentary by Paul Gatenby

Ethonomics

Commentaries by Paul Gatenby and Gavin Mooney

Discourse communities and the discourse of experience

Commentary by Paul Komesaroff

PART 3: ILLNESS EXPERIENCE AND SURVIVORSHIP

Liminality: a major category of the experience of cancer illness

Commentary by Heather McKenzie

Survivorship and discourses of identity

Commentaries by Phyllis Butow, Jane Cruikshank and Samantha Miles

The skull beneath the skin

Commentary by Mira Crouch

Postscript by Martin Adson

Miles Little: A select bibliography

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