Applied Ethics in the Fractured State

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.

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.

• Introduction. Applied Ethics in the Fractured State; Bligh Grant, Joseph Drew and Helen E. Christensen Chapter 1. Ethics, Roles and Confucianism; Chris Provis  Chapter 2. The Unique Perspective on Intention (cetanā), Ethics, Agency and the Self in Buddhism; Chand R. Sirimanne Chapter 3. Rawls, Reasonableness, and Conscientious Objection in Health Care; Xavier Symons  Chapter 4. The Other Side of Euthanasia: A Practice Perspective from Australia; Judith Kennedy and Michael Kennedy  Chapter 5. Natural Law, Non-Voluntary Euthanasia and Public Policy; Joseph Drew and Bligh Grant Chapter 6. When Health Workforce Governance Met Regulatory Capitalism: Australia's National Arrangements for Health Professional Registration and Accreditation; Fiona Pacey  Chapter 7. The Impact of the National Mutual Acceptance on Research Governance Practices in Victorian Public Healthcare Agencies; Bernice Davies, Anona Armstrong and Maree Fitzpatrick  Chapter 8. Community Engagement and Professionalisation: Emerging Tensions; Helen E. Christensen