Emeritus Professor Malcolm Parker
Emeritus Professor

Malcolm Parker

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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:
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Fields of research

Applied ethics Health Sciences

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

  • 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.

Search Professor Malcolm Parker’s works on UQ eSpace

254 works between 1987 and 2020
All (254) Journal Article (192) Book Chapter (11) Conference Publication (36) Book (1) Other Outputs (12) Edited Outputs (2)

181 - 200 of 254 works

2003

Journal Article

The practise of complementary therapies

Parker, M. (2003). The practise of complementary therapies. Australian Family Physician, 32 (3), 102-103.

The practise of complementary therapies

2003

Journal Article

Reforming the law of medical negligence: Solutions in search of a problem

Parker, Malcolm (2003). Reforming the law of medical negligence: Solutions in search of a problem. Torts Law Journal, 11 (2), 136-164.

Reforming the law of medical negligence: Solutions in search of a problem

2002

Journal Article

Whither our Art? Clinical Wisdom & Evidence-based Medicine

Parker, M. H. (2002). Whither our Art? Clinical Wisdom & Evidence-based Medicine. Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 5 (3), 273-280. doi: 10.1023/A:1021116516342

Whither our Art? Clinical Wisdom & Evidence-based Medicine

2002

Journal Article

The role of the church in developing the law: response to commentators

Skene, L. and Parker, M. H. (2002). The role of the church in developing the law: response to commentators. Journal of Medical Ethics, 28 (4), 229-231. doi: 10.1136/jme.28.4.229

The role of the church in developing the law: response to commentators

2002

Journal Article

Beware the Hard Cell

Parker, M. H. (2002, 04 05). Beware the Hard Cell Courier Mail 11-11.

Beware the Hard Cell

2002

Journal Article

Eugenics or empowered choice? Community issues arising from prenatal testing

Parker, Malcolm H., Forbes, Kevin L. and Findlay, Ian (2002). Eugenics or empowered choice? Community issues arising from prenatal testing. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics, 42 (1), 10-14. doi: 10.1111/j.0004-8666.2002.00010.x

Eugenics or empowered choice? Community issues arising from prenatal testing

2002

Journal Article

Ethics and evidence-based medicine (Letter to the Editor)

Parker, Malcolm H., Del Mar, Chris B. and Glasziou, Paul P. (2002). Ethics and evidence-based medicine (Letter to the Editor). Medical Journal of Australia, 176 (3), 138-139.

Ethics and evidence-based medicine (Letter to the Editor)

2002

Conference Publication

Report Cards: Consumerism Run Amok

Parker, M. H. (2002). Report Cards: Consumerism Run Amok. Combined Conference of ABA and AIHLE, Sydney, NSW, 5-9 July 2000. Sydney, NSW: Aust Bioethics Assoc: Australian Institute of Health Law & Ethics.

Report Cards: Consumerism Run Amok

2002

Journal Article

The role of the church in developing the law

Skene, L. and Parker, M. H. (2002). The role of the church in developing the law. Journal of Medical Ethics, 28 (4), 215-218. doi: 10.1136/jme.28.4.215

The role of the church in developing the law

2002

Journal Article

Book review: Angels of Death: Exploring the Euthanasia Underground by R.S. Magnusson

Parker, Malcolm (2002). Book review: Angels of Death: Exploring the Euthanasia Underground by R.S. Magnusson. Monash Bioethics Review, 21 (3), 30-33.

Book review: Angels of Death: Exploring the Euthanasia Underground by R.S. Magnusson

2002

Journal Article

Risky Business:Medicine and Postmodernism

Parker, M. H. (2002). Risky Business:Medicine and Postmodernism. New Zealand Bioethics Journal, 3 (1), 28-32.

Risky Business:Medicine and Postmodernism

2002

Journal Article

Reply to Dziewas and Henningsen

Parker, Malcolm (2002). Reply to Dziewas and Henningsen. Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 36 (4), 558-558. doi: 10.1046/j.1440-1614.2002.01066.x

Reply to Dziewas and Henningsen

2002

Conference Publication

Collective Intentionality & Posthumous Conception: The False Silence of Explicit Consent

Parker, M. H. (2002). Collective Intentionality & Posthumous Conception: The False Silence of Explicit Consent. C. Thomson, L. Skene, Sydney, NSW, 5-9 July 2000. Sydney, NSW: Australian Bioethics Association: Australian institute of Health Law & Ethics.

Collective Intentionality & Posthumous Conception: The False Silence of Explicit Consent

2002

Conference Publication

Pluralism and Metaphysics: How should we reason about embryos, cloning and stem cells?

Parker, Malcolm Holbrook (2002). Pluralism and Metaphysics: How should we reason about embryos, cloning and stem cells?. 7th Annual conference of the Australian Institute of Health, Law and Ethics, University of Newcastle, Newcastle, N.S.W., 27 - 30 June 2002.

Pluralism and Metaphysics: How should we reason about embryos, cloning and stem cells?

2002

Journal Article

Reply to Dziewas and Henningsen. 'Medicine psychiatry and euthenasia: an urgent against mandatory psychotic review'. [Letter to the Editor]

Parker, M. H., Dziewas, R. and Henninson, H. (2002). Reply to Dziewas and Henningsen. 'Medicine psychiatry and euthenasia: an urgent against mandatory psychotic review'. [Letter to the Editor]. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry, 36 (4), 558-558.

Reply to Dziewas and Henningsen. 'Medicine psychiatry and euthenasia: an urgent against mandatory psychotic review'. [Letter to the Editor]

2002

Conference Publication

Principia Bioethica Universalia: Practical rationality, constitutive altruism and global bioethical principlism

Parker, M. (2002). Principia Bioethica Universalia: Practical rationality, constitutive altruism and global bioethical principlism. Australasian Bioethics Association Conference, Adelaide, 14-16 Febuary 2002. Sydney, Australia: Australasian Bioethics Association.

Principia Bioethica Universalia: Practical rationality, constitutive altruism and global bioethical principlism

2002

Journal Article

Medicine, ethics and human happiness

Parker, M. H. (2002). Medicine, ethics and human happiness. Medical Journal of Australia, x-x.

Medicine, ethics and human happiness

2002

Journal Article

Wrongful Life or Wrongful Suffering?

Parker, M. H. (2002). Wrongful Life or Wrongful Suffering?. AMAQ News, Sept 2002 (-), 32-32.

Wrongful Life or Wrongful Suffering?

2002

Conference Publication

Principalism as Dominant Discourse: Guilty until proven innocent

Parker, M. H. (2002). Principalism as Dominant Discourse: Guilty until proven innocent. Combined Conference of ABA and AIHLE, Sydney, NSW, 5-9 July 2000. Sydney, New South Wales: Australian Bioethics Association/Bioethics Association & Auss.

Principalism as Dominant Discourse: Guilty until proven innocent

2001

Journal Article

An ethics core curriculum for Australasian medical schools

Braunack‐Mayer, Annette J, Gillam, Lynn H, Vance, Edwina F, Gillett, Grant R, Kerridge, Ian H, McPhee, John, Saul, Peter, Smith, David E, Wellsmore, Henry M, Koczwara, Bogda, Rogers, Wendy A, Stoffell, Brian F, McNeill, Paul M, Newell, Christopher J, Parker, Malcolm H, Walton, Merrilyn and Whitehall, John S (2001). An ethics core curriculum for Australasian medical schools. The Medical Journal of Australia, 175 (4), 205-210. doi: 10.5694/j.1326-5377.2001.tb143097.x

An ethics core curriculum for Australasian medical schools

Past funding

  • 2012 - 2015
    GAMSAT - beyond predictive validity: an exploration of political validity, acceptability, and educational impact
    Deakin University
    Open grant
  • 2012 - 2015
    Futile treatment at the end of life: legal, policy, sociological and economic perspectives (ARC Linkage Project administered by QUT)
    Queensland University of Technology
    Open grant
  • 2012 - 2014
    UMAT: A definition and exploration of fitness for purpose
    Monash University
    Open grant
  • 2011 - 2014
    Extending GAMSAT: Enhancing the scope and validity
    University of Melbourne
    Open grant
  • 2009 - 2012
    Withholding and withdrawing life-sustaining treatment from adults lacking capacity: Enhancing medical decision-making through doctors' compliance with the law (ARC Linkage administered by QUT)
    Queensland University of Technology
    Open grant
  • 2009 - 2010
    Addressing cultural diversity in health ethics education
    ALTC Competitive Grants
    Open grant
  • 2002 - 2005
    Medical End of Life Decisions: Attitudes and Practices in Six European Countries
    NHMRC Project Grant
    Open grant
  • 1996
    Patient self-determination in terminal care: Phase 2 - Development and evaluation of advance directive resources
    Department Health & Family Services - RADGAC
    Open grant
  • 1995 - 1996
    GP and patient knowledge, attitudes and congruence in end-of-life decision-making
    Department Health & Family Services - GPEP
    Open grant

Availability

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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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