Overview
Background
My research interests cover a number of areas within history and philosophy of science and medicine, moral psychology, bioethics and medical ethics, health law, and medical education, with particular interests in philosophy of psychiatry, end-of-life care and decisions, reproductive medicine, medical professionalism, research ethics, evidence-based medicine and complementary medicine.
Areas of particular interest include:
- Conceptual research in bioethical methodology, particularly principlism and global bioethics
- Ethical aspects of the doctor-patient relationship
- End-of-life issues including euthanasia, mandatory psychiatric review of requests for assisted death, psychiatric medicalisation, withdrawal of treatment, causation of death, competence determination, end-of-life policy-making
- Reproductive issues including prenatal testing, posthumous conception and embryo research
- Human research ethics
- Changes in medical negligence and tort law
- Evidence-based medicine: implications for medical ethics and relations to clinical judgement
- Complementary and alternative medicine: scientific and ethical status, regulation, negligence, integration with orthodox medicine
- Education in medical ethics, medical and health law, professionalism, medical humanities
- Assessment of personal and professional behaviour of medical students
- Statutory regulation of clinical competence and professional conduct
Availability
- Emeritus Professor Malcolm Parker is:
- Available for supervision
- Media expert
Fields of research
Qualifications
- Bachelor of Medicine and Surgery and Medical Science, The University of Queensland
- Masters (Coursework), University of New England Australia
- Masters (Coursework), University of Melbourne
- Doctoral Diploma of Medicine, The University of Queensland
Research interests
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List of interests
• Conceptual research in bioethical methodology, particularly principlism and global bioethics • Ethical aspects of the doctor-patient relationship • End-of-life issues including euthanasia, mandatory psychiatric review of requests for assisted death, psychiatric medicalisation, withdrawal of treatment, causation of death, competence determination, end-of-life policy-making • Reproductive issues including prenatal testing, posthumous conception and embryo research • Human research ethics • Changes in medical negligence and tort law • Evidence-based medicine: implications for medical ethics and relations to clinical judgement • Complementary and alternative medicine: scientific and ethical status, regulation, negligence, integration with orthodox medicine • Education in medical ethics, medical and health law, professionalism, medical humanities • Assessment of personal and professional behaviour of medical students • Statutory regulation of clinical competence and professional conduct
Research impacts
My research has had direct or indirect impact in the following areas:
- Management of impaired doctors and medical students - leader in development of curriculum, teaching and assessment of medical professionalism and student behaviour, via publications, research-based developments at UQ and invited national and international contributions.
- Medical education - improving and expanding medical ethics and law education in Australia, via publication and research-based development of curricum, teaching and assessment.
- Human research ethics - broadening the remit of the National Statement on Research Involving Humans beyond the medical categories, via collaborative contributions to the research literature.
Works
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1999
Conference Publication
Medical ethics teaching in Australia and New Zealand: Report on the first national medical ethics education meeting
Parker, M. H. and Gillam, L. (1999). Medical ethics teaching in Australia and New Zealand: Report on the first national medical ethics education meeting. Change in the Education of Health Professionals, Brisbane, 2-5 July, 1999. Brisbane: Australasian and NZ Assoc for Med Educ.
1999
Conference Publication
The art of the possible - assessment of personal & professional development in professional courses
Parker, M. H., Miflin, B. M. and Lyall, D. E. (1999). The art of the possible - assessment of personal & professional development in professional courses. Brisbane, 2-5 July, 1999. Brisbane: Australian & New Z ealand Association for Medical Education.
1998
Journal Article
Review of Medical Ethics (2nd Ed) By A. Campbell, M. Charlesworth,G. Gillett, G. Jones
Parker, Malcolm Holbrook (1998). Review of Medical Ethics (2nd Ed) By A. Campbell, M. Charlesworth,G. Gillett, G. Jones. Medical Journal of Australia, 169 (2), 108-108.
1998
Journal Article
Holding the line on medical record access
Parker, Malcolm H. (1998). Holding the line on medical record access. AMAQ News (20)
1998
Conference Publication
Narrative, sensitivity and theory: Ethics in the graduate medical course
Parker, M. (1998). Narrative, sensitivity and theory: Ethics in the graduate medical course. Fifth National Conference of the Australian Bioethics Association, Melbourne, Australia, 1998. Australian Bioethics Assocation.
1997
Other Outputs
Patient Self-Determination in Terminal Care: Phase 2. Development of Advance Directives and Proxies.Report to Research and Development Grants Program, Commonwealth Department of Human Services and Health.
M Steinberg, C Cartwright, M Parker and J Najman (1997). Patient Self-Determination in Terminal Care: Phase 2. Development of Advance Directives and Proxies.Report to Research and Development Grants Program, Commonwealth Department of Human Services and Health..
1997
Journal Article
Book review: Humane medicine by Miles Little
Parker, Malcolm (1997). Book review: Humane medicine by Miles Little. Bioethics, 11 (1), 80-83. doi: 10.1111/1467-8519.t01-1-00045
1997
Journal Article
Teaching of medical ethics: Implications for an integrated curriculum
Parker, M. H., Price, D. A. and Harris, P. G. (1997). Teaching of medical ethics: Implications for an integrated curriculum. Medical Education, 31 (3), 181-187. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2923.1997.tb02563.x
1996
Journal Article
Review of:The Troubled Dream of Life: Living with Mortality by Daniel Callahan
Parker, Malcolm Holbrook (1996). Review of:The Troubled Dream of Life: Living with Mortality by Daniel Callahan. Health Care Analysis, 4 (4), 355-357.
1996
Other Outputs
End-of-Life Decision-Making: Perspectives of General Practitioners and Patients. Report to the General Practice Evaluation Program of the Commonwealth Department of Human Services and Health
Steinberg, M., Parker, M., Cartwright, C., Macdonald, F., Del Mar, C., Williams, G. and Hoffenberg, R. (1996). End-of-Life Decision-Making: Perspectives of General Practitioners and Patients. Report to the General Practice Evaluation Program of the Commonwealth Department of Human Services and Health. Commonwealth Department of Human Services and Health.
1996
Book Chapter
The Sanctity of Life and Resource Allocation: Voluntarism, Coercion & the Common Good
Parker, Malcolm Holbrook (1996). The Sanctity of Life and Resource Allocation: Voluntarism, Coercion & the Common Good. An Easeful Death? : Perspectives on Death, Dying and Euthanasia. (pp. 129-136) Leichhardt, N.S.W., Australia: Federation Press.
1996
Journal Article
Medicine & the community - the euthanasia debate
Parker, Malcolm H. (1996). Medicine & the community - the euthanasia debate. Medical journal of Australia, 165 (8), 457-457. doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1996.tb138596.x
1996
Conference Publication
Attitudes of the community and health care providers to various aspects of the death debates
Parker, Malcolm, Cartwright, Colleen and Steinberg, Margaret (1996). Attitudes of the community and health care providers to various aspects of the death debates. 10th National Bioethics Conference, Sydney, Australia, 24-25 March, 1996. Wahroonga, N.S.W.: Christian Centre for Bioethics, Sydney Adventist Hospital.
1996
Journal Article
Assisted Suicide & Euthanasia: Response to Kelly & Varghese
Parker, Malcolm Holbrook (1996). Assisted Suicide & Euthanasia: Response to Kelly & Varghese. Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry, 30 (4), 557-558.
1996
Conference Publication
Bioethics, Autonomy and Community
Parker, Malcolm H. (1996). Bioethics, Autonomy and Community. Third Annual Conference of the Australian Bioethics Association, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, 1994. Melbourne, NSW:
1995
Journal Article
Autonomy, problem-based learning and the teaching of medical ethics
Parker, M. (1995). Autonomy, problem-based learning and the teaching of medical ethics. Journal of Medical Ethics, 21 (5), 305-310. doi: 10.1136/jme.21.5.305
1995
Journal Article
Medical Ethics: Exploring Teaching and Learning
Harris, P., Parker, M. H. and Price, D. (1995). Medical Ethics: Exploring Teaching and Learning. Australasian and New Zealand Association for Medical Education (ANZAME) Bulletin, 22 (1), 18-26.
1995
Journal Article
The Euthanasia Controversy: Decision-making in extreme cases
Komesaroff, P. A., Lickiss, J. N., Parker, M. H. and Ashby, M. A. (1995). The Euthanasia Controversy: Decision-making in extreme cases. Medical Journal of Australia, 162 (11), 594-597. doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1995.tb138554.x
1995
Other Outputs
End-of-life decision-making project - interim report
Steinberg, M., Parker, M., Del Mar, C., Hoffenberg, R. and Williams, G. (1995). End-of-life decision-making project - interim report.
1994
Journal Article
Active Voluntary Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide: a Morally Irrelevant Distinction
Parker, Malcolm Holbrook (1994). Active Voluntary Euthanasia and Physician Assisted Suicide: a Morally Irrelevant Distinction. Monash Bioethics Review, 13 (4), 34-42.
Funding
Supervision
Availability
- Emeritus Professor Malcolm Parker is:
- Available for supervision
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Supervision history
Completed supervision
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2021
Doctor Philosophy
General practice trainee help-seeking, and supervisor input, during trainee consultations with patients
Principal Advisor
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2018
Doctor Philosophy
Capacity and Treatment Refusal: How Law Should Deal with the Case of Anorexia Nervosa
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Tamara Walsh
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2016
Doctor Philosophy
Unpacking Affective Learning: A Longitudinal, Qualitative Study Exploring How Junior Doctors Learn To Be Compassionate Through Practice.
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Professor Di Eley, Dr Emma Bartle
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2014
Doctor Philosophy
Contested Concepts: The Salience of Metaphysics to Bioethical Debate.
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor William Grey
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2013
Doctor Philosophy
Measuring Professional Behaviour of Medical Students, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia Medical Centre (UKMMC)
Associate Advisor
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2009
Doctor Philosophy
A contextual approach for ethical analysis in clinical genetics
Associate Advisor
Other advisors: Associate Professor William Grey
Media
Enquiries
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- Bioethics
- Biology and ethics
- Doctors - professional development
- Education - medicine
- Ethics - biology
- Ethics - medical
- Ethics and biology
- Health law
- History of medicine
- Law - health
- Law - medical
- Medical education
- Medical ethics
- Medical history
- Medical law
- Medicine - philosophy of
- Philosophy and medicine
- Professional development - medicine
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