The Cartwright Papers

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The Cervical Cancer Inquiry and its report (known as the Cartwright Report) were momentous events in the recent history of New Zealand. Critical issues were at stake: matters of life and death; the life's work of leaders within the medical profession; professional reputations; public trust in the profession, and its own sense of self-worth. After seven months of considering evidence, Judge Silvia Cartwright, assisted by expert medical and legal teams and drawing on specialist opinion from all over the world, concluded that Associate Professor Herbert Green had been conducting unethical research at National Women's Hospital, and that many women had been affected. This book of essays recounts some of this history. Several of the contributors were participants: Clare Matheson writes as one of the patients; Professor Charlotte Paul was a medical adviser to the Inquiry; Sandra Coney (with Phillida Bunkle) wrote the article leading to the Inquiry; Dr Ron Jones was one of the three authors of the 1984 article, using data from Green's own patients, that demonstrated that carcinoma of the cervix had a significant invasive potential. Other authors are specialists in other fields: Professor Alastair Campbell and Associate Professor Joanna Manning comment from the perspective of medical ethics and medical law respectively; Ron Paterson is the Health and Disability Commissioner; Jan Crosthwaite is a philosopher with expertise in medical ethics. These essays not only review the history but also document how the Cartwright Report changed the whole landscape of medical practice and biomedical research in this country, leading to far better protections for both patients and research participants. Yet despite all the regulatory changes, the most significant change to which the Cartwright Report contributed was attitudinal - a rejection of medical paternalism and a new expectation that patients would be treated as partners in their care. The findings of the Report remain controversial and continue to be debated to this day. This book provides a perspective on the current debates and helps place them in context. As Clare Matheson (one of Green's patients) said: 'We must never forget lest it happen again'. Contributors include: Alastair Campbell, Silvia Cartwright, Sandra Coney, Jan Crosthwaite, Ron Jones, Joanna Manning, Clare Matheson, Ron Paterson, Charlotte Paul.

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Genre : Health & Fitness
Author : Joanna Manning
Publisher : Bridget Williams Books
Release : 2009
File : 225 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781877242458


The New Labrador Papers Of Captain George Cartwright

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An enterprising British merchant provides instructions for living in eighteenth-century Labrador.

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Genre : Biography & Autobiography
Author : George Cartwright
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release : 2008-06-09
File : 269 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780773574564


Report

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Genre : United States
Author : United States. Congress. House
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File : 2082 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:35112102287986


Parliamentary Papers

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Genre : Great Britain
Author : Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons
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Release : 1894
File : 1100 Pages
ISBN-13 : OSU:32435066012915


History And Ethnography Of The Beothuk

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Relations with Inuit, Montagnais, and Micmac are also discussed.

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Genre : History
Author : Ingeborg Marshall
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release : 1996
File : 666 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780773513907


Report

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Genre : United States
Author : United States. Congress Senate
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File : 2488 Pages
ISBN-13 : UOM:35112102270719


While The Women Only Wept

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In While the Women Only Wept Janice Potter-MacKinnon traces the story of Loyalist women from their experiences in the American colonies as antagonism toward the British Crown increased, through their forced exodus from the colonies in the late 1770s and early 1780s, to their eventual settlement in eastern Ontario in the area around present-day Kingston.

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Genre : History
Author : Janice Potter-MacKinnon
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release : 1995
File : 220 Pages
ISBN-13 : 0773513175


Changing Times

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Pirate radio in the Hauraki Gulf and the first DC8 jets landing at Mangere; feminists liberating pubs and protests over the closing of Post Offices; kohanga reo and carless days: Changing Times is a history of New Zealand since 1945. From a post-war society famous around the world for its dull conformity, this country has become one of the most ethnically, economically and socially diverse countries on earth. But how did we get from Nagasaki to nuclear-free? What made us embrace small-state, free-market ideology with such passion? And were we really leaving behind a society known for its fretful sleepers and 'the worship of averages'? In Changing Times, Jenny Carlyon and Diana Morrow answer those questions, taking us from the 'Golden Weather' of post-war economic growth, through the globalisation, economic challenges and protest of the 1960s and 1970s, and on to the free market revolution and new immigrants of the 1980s and 1990s. Throughout, stories from the lives of New Zealanders are key: a tank driver yelling in his sleep after World War II, a woman in the Wairarapa discovering The Feminine Mystique, a Tapawera forestry worker losing his job. This is a powerful history of the transformation of New Zealand life.

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Genre : History
Author : Jenny Carlyon
Publisher : Auckland University Press
Release : 2013-11-15
File : 561 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781869407834


The Occasional Human Sacrifice Medical Experimentation And The Price Of Saying No

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Shocking cases of abusive medical research and the whistleblowers who spoke out against them, sometimes at the expense of their careers. The Occasional Human Sacrifice is an intellectual inquiry into the moral struggle that whistleblowers face, and why it is not the kind of struggle that most people imagine. Carl Elliott is a bioethicist at the University of Minnesota who was trained in medicine as well as philosophy. For many years he fought for an external inquiry into a psychiatric research study at his own university in which an especially vulnerable patient lost his life. Elliott’s efforts alienated friends and colleagues. The university stonewalled him and denied wrongdoing until a state investigation finally vindicated his claims. His experience frames the six stories in this book of medical research in which patients were deceived into participating in experimental programs they did not understand, many of which had astonishing and well-concealed mortality rates. Beginning with the public health worker who exposed the Tuskegee Syphilis Study and ending with the four physicians who in 2016 blew the whistle on lethal synthetic trachea transplants at the Karolinska Institute, Elliott tells the extraordinary stories of insiders who spoke out against such abuses, and often paid a terrible price for doing the right thing.

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Genre : Health & Fitness
Author : Carl Elliott
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Release : 2024-05-14
File : 188 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9781324065517


Lion The Eagle And Upper Canada

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It has generally been assumed that the political and social ideas of early Upper Canadians rested firmly on veneration of eighteenth-century British conservative values and unequivocal rejection of all things American. Jane Errington's examination of the attitudes and beliefs of the Upper Canadian elite between 1784 and 1828, as seen through their private papers, public records, and the newspapers of the time, suggests that this view is far too simplistic.

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Genre : History
Author : Elizabeth Jane Errington
Publisher : McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP
Release : 1987
File : 286 Pages
ISBN-13 : 9780773506039