Author: New Zealand. Committee of Inquiry into Allegations Concerning the Treatment of Cervical Cancer at National Women's Hospital and into Other Related MattersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cervix uteri
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
The Report of the Committee of Inquiry Into Allegations Concerning the Treatment of Cervical Cancer at National Women's Hospital and Into Other Related Matters
Author: New Zealand. Committee of Inquiry into Allegations Concerning the Treatment of Cervical Cancer at National Women's Hospital and into Other Related MattersPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cervix uteri
Languages : en
Pages : 296
Book Description
Submission by the Ministry of Women's Affairs to the Committee of Inquiry Into Allegations Concerning the Treatment of Cervical Cancer at National Women's Hospital and Other Related Matters
Author: The Unfortunate Experiment
Author: Sandra ConeyPublisher: Viking Penguin
ISBN:
Category : Cancer
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
In 1984 the medical journal Obstetrics and Gynecology published a paper that would initiate an investigation into one of the greatest medical scandals of the late twentieth century. Titled "The Invasive Potential of Carcinoma in Situ of the Cervix", it discussed the results of an experiment that had been run at the National Women’s Hospital in Auckland, New Zealand, since 1955. The experiment looked at the natural history of cervical carcinoma in situ (CIS) – in other words, what happens if no treatment is initiated in a condition suspected (when the experiment began) to lead to cervical cancer. The paper divided participants into two groups, one that had negative results after biopsy or treatment, and one smaller group that continued to test positive. This second group had a significant rate of cervical cancer; some of these women were followed for twenty-five years without treatment, and in only 5% did the disease spontaneously resolve. For the other 95%, outcomes ranged from positive but localised results to metastatic disease and death. The authors said these results were in contrast with other, earlier papers about the experiment. After much research, Sandra Coney, one-time editor of a NZ feminist magazine, and Phyllida Bunkle, a women’s studies lecturer, wrote an article about the experiment, exposing the unauthorised research performed by one prominent gynaecologist in support of his belief that CIS was not associated with cervical cancer. Professor Herbert Green, a physician of considerable influence and power throughout New Zealand, persisted in his belief despite increasingly convincing proof of a progressive connection between the two conditions, never sought permission from his patients, or even told them what he was doing.
Sandra Coney Collection of Cervical Cancer Inquiry Proceedings
Author: Sandra ConeyPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Cervix uteri
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Dr Rodney Harrison's copies of transcripts of proceedings of the Committee of Inquiry into Allegations Concerning the Treatment of Cervical Cancer at National Women's Hospital and into Other Related Matters, also known as the Cartwright Inquiry. The collection also includes Harrison's copies of submissions and exhibits tabled at the Inquiry. The papers have been extensively annotated by Harrison, using both Post-it notes with handwritten comments, and with highlighter pen.
The Rise and Fall of National Women's Hospital
Author: Linda BryderPublisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 177558724X
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 334
Book Description
In this major history, Linda Bryder traces the annals of National Women's Hospital over half a century in order to tell a wider story of reproductive health. She uses the varying perspectives of doctors, nurses, midwives, consumer groups, and patients to show how together their dialog shaped the nature of motherhood and women's health in 20th-century New Zealand. Natural childbirth and rooming in, artificial insemination and in vitro fertilization, sterilization and abortion: women's health and reproduction went through a revolution in the 20th century as scientific advances confronted ethical and political dilemmas. In New Zealand, the major site for this revolution was National Women's Hospital. Established in Auckland in 1946, with a purpose-built building that opened in 1964, National Women's was the home of medical breakthroughs scandals. This chronicle covers them all.
The Cartwright Papers
Author: Joanna ManningPublisher: Bridget Williams Books
ISBN: 1877242454
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 225
Book Description
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.
Women's Health
Author: New Zealand. Committee on Inquiry into Allegations Concerning the Treatment of Cervical Cancer at National Women's Hospital and into Other Related MattersPublisher:
ISBN: 9780478040531
Category : Cervix uteri
Languages : en
Pages : 57
Book Description
A History of the 'Unfortunate Experiment' at National Women's Hospital
Author: Linda BryderPublisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 1869404963
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
In the late 1980s, a national outcry followed the publication of Sandra Coney and Phillida Bunkle's 'Unfortunate Experiment' article in Metro magazine about the treatment of carcinoma in situ at National Women's Hospital. The article prompted a commission of inquiry led by Judge Silvia Cartwright which indicted the practices of doctors at the hospital and led to lawsuits, censure, a national screening programme and a revolution in doctor-patient relations in New Zealand. In this carefully researched book, medical historian Dr Linda Bryder provides a detailed analysis of the treatment of carcinoma in situ at National Women's since the 1950s, an assessment of international medical practice and a history of the women's health movement. She tackles a number of key questions. Was treatment at National Women's an 'unfortunate experiment'? Was it out of line with international norms? Did Herb Green and his colleagues care more for science than for their patients? Did women die as a result? And what were the sources of the scandal that erupted?
Annals of Bioethics: Regional Perspectives in Bioethics
Author: Mark J. CherryPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1135302286
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
Regional Perspectives in Bioethics" illustrates the ways in which the national and international political landscape encompasses persons from diverse and often fragmented moral communities with widely varying moral intuitions, premises, evaluations and commitments.
National Library of Medicine Current Catalog
Author: National Library of Medicine (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Medicine
Languages : en
Pages : 1032
Book Description