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This book brings together the refereed proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Australian Association of Professional and Applied Ethics (AAPAE) 'Applied Ethics in the Fractured State', held at the Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney in June 2017.
This volume compiles the proceedings of the 24th Annual Conference of the Australian Association of Professional and Applied Ethics, held in Sydney, Australia, in June 2017. Through eight papers, public policy, law, and other scholars from Australia address ethics and the state in terms of ethical problems surrounding role obligations from the perspective of Confucian ethics, the significance of intention in Buddhist ethics and its relevance in the digital age, conscientious objection in health care, the consequences of the increased support for euthanasia and assisted suicide in Australia, non-voluntary euthanasia in terms of Natural Law philosophy, health professional registration and accreditation in Australia, the impact of the National Mutual Acceptance on research governance practices in public healthcare agencies, and community engagement and professionalization.
Bligh Grant is an Associate Professor at the Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney, NSW Australia.Joseph Drew, PhD, is a Lecturer at the Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney, NSW Australia and Adjunct Professor at the Department of Business Administration, Tokyo Metropolitan University. Helen E. Christensen is an Associate and PhD Candidate at the Institute for Public Policy and Governance, University of Technology Sydney, NSW Australia. She is also a community engagement practitioner.