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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2013
Journal Article
“Forced sterilisation”: clarifying and challenging intuitions and models
Parker, Malcolm (2013). “Forced sterilisation”: clarifying and challenging intuitions and models. Journal of Law and Medicine, 20 (3), 512-527.
2013
Journal Article
Overstating values: medical facts, diverse values, bioethics and values-based medicine
Parker, Malcolm (2013). Overstating values: medical facts, diverse values, bioethics and values-based medicine. Bioethics, 27 (2), 97-104. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-8519.2011.01902.x
2013
Book Chapter
Australia and New Zealand
Parker, Malcolm (2013). Australia and New Zealand. Practical professionalism in medicine: a global case-based workbook. (pp. xx-xx) edited by Roger Worthington and Richard Hays. Milton Keynes, United Kingdom: Radcliffe Health.
2013
Journal Article
Misconceiving medical leadership
Parker, Malcolm (2013). Misconceiving medical leadership. Perspectives in Medicine and Biology, 56 (3), 387-406. doi: 10.1353/pbm.2013.0027
2013
Conference Publication
Clinical photography in dermatology: ethical and medico-legal considerations in the age of digital and smart phone technology
Kunde, L., Parker, M. and McMeniman, E. (2013). Clinical photography in dermatology: ethical and medico-legal considerations in the age of digital and smart phone technology. 46th Annual Scientific Meeting of The Australasian College of Dermatologists, Sydney, NSW, Australia, 19-22 May 2013. Richmond, VIC Australia: Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Asia. doi: 10.1111/ajd.12051
2013
Other Outputs
Addressing cultural diversity in health ethics education. Developing pedagogy and teaching materials for health ethics education that address cultural diversity and are applicable to health care situations across a broad range of cultural contexts. Report
Fuscaldo, G., Gillam, L., Delany, C. and Parker, M. (2013). Addressing cultural diversity in health ethics education. Developing pedagogy and teaching materials for health ethics education that address cultural diversity and are applicable to health care situations across a broad range of cultural contexts. Report.
2012
Journal Article
The informal curriculum: general practitioner perceptions of ethics in clinical practice
Sturman, Nancy J., Parker, Malcolm and van Driel, Mieke L. (2012). The informal curriculum: general practitioner perceptions of ethics in clinical practice. Australian Family Physician, 41 (12), 981-984.
2012
Journal Article
A fair dinkum duty of open disclosure following medical error
Parker, Malcolm (2012). A fair dinkum duty of open disclosure following medical error. Journal of Law and Medicine, 20 (1), 35-43.
2012
Journal Article
Should law have a role in end-of-life care?
White, B., Willmott, L., Parker, M., Cartwright, C. and Williams, G. (2012). Should law have a role in end-of-life care?. Internal Medicine Journal, 42 (9), 966-968. doi: 10.1111/j.1445-5994.2012.02883.x
2012
Journal Article
What do emergency physicians think of law?
White, Ben, Willmott, Lindy, Parker, Malcolm, Cartwright, Colleen and Williams, Gail (2012). What do emergency physicians think of law?. Emergency Medicine Australasia, 24 (4), 355-356. doi: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2012.01586.x
2012
Journal Article
Shanachie and Norm
Parker, Malcolm (2012). Shanachie and Norm. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 9 (2), 215-216. doi: 10.1007/s11673-012-9356-0
2012
Journal Article
Autonomy versus futility? Barriers to good clinical practice in end-of-life care: A Queensland case
Lawrence, Sean, Willmott, Lindy, Milligan, Eleanor, Winch, Sarah, White, Ben and Parker, Malcolm (2012). Autonomy versus futility? Barriers to good clinical practice in end-of-life care: A Queensland case. Medical Journal of Australia, 196 (6), 404-405. doi: 10.5694/mja10.10969
2012
Journal Article
Evaluating workplace-based assessment of interns in a Queensland hospital: Does the current instrument fit the purpose?
Zhang, Jianzhen Jenny, Wilkinson, David, Parker, Malcolm H., Leggett, Andrew and Thistlethwaite, Jill (2012). Evaluating workplace-based assessment of interns in a Queensland hospital: Does the current instrument fit the purpose?. Medical Journal of Australia, 196 (4), 243-243. doi: 10.5694/mja11.11369
2012
Journal Article
Teaching medical ethics and law
Parker, Malcolm (2012). Teaching medical ethics and law. Journal of Law and Medicine, 19 (3), 444-453.
2012
Journal Article
Words and reasons: psychiatry and assisted suicide
Parker, Malcolm (2012). Words and reasons: psychiatry and assisted suicide. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 46 (2), 80-83. doi: 10.1177/0004867411434334
2012
Conference Publication
'To err on the side of coldness' - how 4th year UQ medical students perceive they learn to express compassion in the clinical context
Davin, Lorna, Thistlethwaite, Jill, Parker, Malcolm, Eley, Diann and Bartle, Emma (2012). 'To err on the side of coldness' - how 4th year UQ medical students perceive they learn to express compassion in the clinical context. Centre for Medical Education Research and Scholarship (CMEDRS) Learning and Teaching Conference, Brisbane, QLD, Australia, 8 - 9 November 2012.
2012
Conference Publication
The informal curriculum: ethics in general practice
Sturman, N., Parker, M. and van Driel, M. (2012). The informal curriculum: ethics in general practice. General Practice Education and Training Conference 2012, Melbourne, VIC, Australia, 5 - 6 September 2012.
2012
Conference Publication
Developing the compassionate practitioner: How do medical students and junior doctors learn to show they care?
Davin, Lorna, Thistlethwaite, Jill, Eley, Diann, Parker, Malcolm and Bartle, Emma (2012). Developing the compassionate practitioner: How do medical students and junior doctors learn to show they care?. ANZAHPE 2012, Rotorua, New Zealand, 27 - 29 June 2012. Rotorua, New Zealand: ANZAHPE.
2011
Journal Article
Body or soul: why we don't talk about death and dying
Parker, Malcolm (2011, 11 25). Body or soul: why we don't talk about death and dying
2011
Journal Article
Emergency medicine and futile care: Taking the road less travelled
O’Connor, Alan E., Winch, Sarah, Lukin, William and Parker, Malcolm (2011). Emergency medicine and futile care: Taking the road less travelled. Emergency Medicine Australasia, 23 (5), 640-643. doi: 10.1111/j.1742-6723.2011.01435.x
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
Contact Emeritus Professor Malcolm Parker directly for media enquiries about:
- 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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