PhD Alumni

Anton Allen

Project title: Sweet little lies: the ethics of deceptive placebo use in clinical practice

Main supervisor: Associate Professor Justin Oakley

Tim Allen

Project title: The ethics of laws and policies to prevent childhood obesity

Main supervisor: Professor Michael Selgelid

Susan Bailey

Thesis title: The ethics of making decisions about the provision of intensive care

Angela Ballantyne

Thesis tile: Exploitation in HIV/AIDS international clinical research

Supervisor: Associate Professor Justin Oakley

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Dr Paul Biegler

Thesis title: Autonomy and ethical treatment in depression

Supervisor: Associate Professor Justin Oakley

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Russell Kenneth Blackford

Thesis title: Human enhancement: the challenge to liberal tolerance

Supervisor: Associate Professor Justin Oakley

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Victor Matthew Cole

Thesis title: (Post) human flourishing: neo-Aristotelian natural rights and the challenge to human nature

Supervisors: Associate Professor Justin Oakley and Dr. Robert Sparrow.

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Associate Professor Andrew Crowden

Thesis title: Virtue ethics and professional psychotherapy

Supervisor: Associate Professor Justin Oakley

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Associate Professor Lynn Gillam

Thesis title: Using Nazi data and fetal tissue the moral problem of benefiting from past wrongs

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Evie Kendal

Project title: Sex and speculation: a feminist bioethics critique of ectogenesis and its representation in science fiction and popular culture

Main supervisor: Associate Professor Catherine Mills

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Jacinta Kerin

Thesis title: The matter of metaphysics: bergson, bioethics and feminism

Supervisor: Associate Professor Justin Oakley

Julian Koplin

Project title: Selling the ‘gift of life’: a consequentialist case against markets in organs

Main supervisor: Professor Michael Selgelid

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David Macintosh

Thesis title: Trust and betrayal in the physician-patient relationship

Stephanie Marshall

Project title: Authenticity and the use of cosmetic psychopharmaceuticals

Main supervisor: Associate Professor Justin Oakley

Bryanna Moore

Project title: Life, death and euthanasia: can virtue ethics help us make decisions?

Main supervisor: Associate Professor Justin Oakley

Professor Ian N. Olver

Thesis title: A “highest value on life” ethic for life or death decision making

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Associate Professor Ani B. Satz

Thesis title: Testing access: toward a theory of entitlement to genetic testing

Supervisor: Professor Peter Singer

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Professor Julian Savulescu

Thesis title: Good reasons to die

Supervisor: Professor Peter Singer

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Professor Udo Schüklenk

Thesis title: Access to experimental drugs in terminal illness ethical issues

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Suchana Sova

Title: Justice in international biomedical research: a moral defence of (Contribution Model) intellectual property rights and health rights.

Main supervisor: Associate Professor Justin Oakley

Merle Spriggs

Thesis title: Autonomy and patients’ decisions

Supervisor: Professor Peter Singer

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Giles Yates

Thesis title: An outcome dependent approach to competence assessment

Deborah Zion

Thesis title: Attachment and liberty: gay communities in Australia and the ethics of HIV/AIDS

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