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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2011
Journal Article
Organs for sale: the ethics of paying living kidney donors
Parker, Malcolm (2011, 08 04). Organs for sale: the ethics of paying living kidney donors
2011
Journal Article
Commentary: The clinical freedom worth having — commentary on Hampton (1983)
Parker, Malcolm (2011). Commentary: The clinical freedom worth having — commentary on Hampton (1983). International Journal of Epidemiology, 40 (4) dyr044, 853-855. doi: 10.1093/ije/dyr044
2011
Journal Article
Predictive validity of the Undergraduate Medicine and Health Sciences Admission Test for medical students' academic performance
Wilkinson, David, Zhang, Jianzhen and Parker, Malcolm (2011). Predictive validity of the Undergraduate Medicine and Health Sciences Admission Test for medical students' academic performance. Medical Journal of Australia, 194 (7), 341-344. doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2011.tb03002.x
2011
Journal Article
The legal role of medical professionals in decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment: part 1 (New South Wales)
White, Ben, Willmott, Lindy, Trowse, Pip, Parker, Malcolm and Cartwright, Colleen (2011). The legal role of medical professionals in decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment: part 1 (New South Wales). Journal of Law and Medicine, 18 (3), 498-522.
2011
Journal Article
Embracing the new professionalism: Self-regulation, mandatory reporting and their discontents
Parker, Malcolm (2011). Embracing the new professionalism: Self-regulation, mandatory reporting and their discontents. Journal of Law and Medicine, 18 (3), 456-466.
2011
Journal Article
The legal role of medical professionals in decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment: part 2 (Queensland)
Willmott, Lindy, White, Ben, Parker, Malcolm and Cartwright, Colleen (2011). The legal role of medical professionals in decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment: part 2 (Queensland). Journal of Law and Medicine, 18 (3), 523-544.
2011
Journal Article
Republication: in that case
Parker, Malcolm (2011). Republication: in that case. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 8 (1), 97-98. doi: 10.1007/s11673-010-9283-x
2011
Journal Article
Mandatory reporting, doctors' health and ethical obligations
Parker, Malcolm H. (2011). Mandatory reporting, doctors' health and ethical obligations. Medical Journal of Australia, 194 (4), 205-205. doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2011.tb03775.x
2011
Journal Article
Medical merchants: Conflict of interest, office product sales and notifiable conduct
Parker, MH, Wardle, JL, Weir, M and Stewart, CL (2011). Medical merchants: Conflict of interest, office product sales and notifiable conduct. Medical Journal of Australia, 194 (1), 34-37. doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2011.tb04143.x
2011
Journal Article
The legal role of medical professionals in decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment: Part 3 (Victoria)
Willmott, Lindy, White, Ben, Parker, Malcolm and Cartwright, Colleen (2011). The legal role of medical professionals in decisions to withhold or withdraw life-sustaining treatment: Part 3 (Victoria). Journal of Law and Medicine, 18 (4), 773-797.
2011
Journal Article
Not so great expectations: why we should accept and respect hopelessness and futility
Parker, Malcolm (2011). Not so great expectations: why we should accept and respect hopelessness and futility. Journal of Law and Medicine, 19 (1), 36-42.
2011
Book Chapter
Adolescent Confidentiality
Parker, Malcolm (2011). Adolescent Confidentiality. Clinical Ethics in Pediatrics: A Case-Based Textbook.. (pp. 18-22) edited by D. Diekema, M. Mercurio and M. Adam. Cambridge, England, United Kingdom: Cambridge University Press. doi: 10.1017/CBO9780511740336.005
2011
Journal Article
In That Case: To Report or Not to Report: That Is the Question
Parker, Malcolm (2011). In That Case: To Report or Not to Report: That Is the Question. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 8 (3), 313-314. doi: 10.1007/s11673-011-9314-2
2011
Conference Publication
Psychometric properties of workplace based assessment of interns in Queensland, Australia.
Zhang, J., Wilkinson, D. and Parker, M. (2011). Psychometric properties of workplace based assessment of interns in Queensland, Australia.. AMEE, 2011, Vienna Austria, 27-31 August 2011.
2010
Journal Article
The difficult problem: Assessing medical students' professional attitudes and behaviour
Parker, Malcolm H., Turner, Jane, McGurgan, Paul, Emmerton, Lynne M., McAllister, Lindy and Wilkinson, David (2010). The difficult problem: Assessing medical students' professional attitudes and behaviour. Medical Journal of Australia, 193 (11/12), 662-664. doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2010.tb04097.x
2010
Journal Article
Republication: In that case
Parker, Malcolm (2010). Republication: In that case. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 7 (4), 373-373. doi: 10.1007/s11673-010-9264-0
2010
Journal Article
In that Case
Parker, Malcolm (2010). In that Case. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 7 (4), 387-388. doi: 10.1007/s11673-010-9261-3
2010
Journal Article
Commentary on: Truthful communication with a surrogate
Parker, Malcolm (2010). Commentary on: Truthful communication with a surrogate. CENTRES Quarterly newsletter, 3, 4-5.
2010
Journal Article
Futile choices: Wooing doctors to acknowledge the law in Queensland
Parker, Malcolm H. (2010). Futile choices: Wooing doctors to acknowledge the law in Queensland. Journal of Law and Medicine, 18 (1), 32-37.
2010
Journal Article
Normative lessons: Codes of conduct, self-regulation and the law
Parker, Malcolm H. (2010). Normative lessons: Codes of conduct, self-regulation and the law. Medical Journal of Australia, 192 (11), 658-660. doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2010.tb03670.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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