Dr Paul Biegler
Email: pbiegler@bigpond.net.au
Thesis Title:
"Autonomy and ethical treatment in depression". (Supervisors: Justin Oakley, Helga Kuhse, and Assoc. Prof. Nicholas Allen (Dept of Psychology, Melbourne University).)
Qualifications:
- Master of Bioethics, Monash University, 2001
- Fellowship of Australasian College for Emergency Medicine, 1998
- Diploma of Anaesthetics, Royal College of Anaesthetists (United Kingdom), 1994
- MB BS Monash University, 1987.
Current Appointments:
- Staff Specialist, Emergency Department, Sandringham and District Memorial Hospital
- Honorary Lecturer, Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Monash University and Department of Medicine, Alfred Hospital.
- Sessional Tutor, School of Philosophy and Bioethics, Monash University.
Interests:
Bioethics, philosophy of emotion, neuroethics, philosophical psychology.
Publications:
- 'Autonomy and ethical treatment in depression'. Bioethics 2008. (in press)
- 'Autonomy, stress, and treatment of depression'. British Medical Journal 2008; 336: 1046-1048.
- Book Review: Prozac as a way of life, edited by C. Elliott and T. Chambers. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2004 in Monash Bioethics Review 2005; 24 (2): 59-63.
- Book Review; Elliot C. Better than well, American Medicine Meets the American Dream. New York: W.W. Norton and company; 2003, in Monash Bioethics Review 2004; 23 (1): 45-47.
- 'A Primer on the law of competence to refuse medical treatment'.Australian Law Journal 2004; 78: 325-342 (with Dr Cameron Stewart).
- 'Should patient consent be required to write a do-not-resuscitate order?'Journal of Medical Ethics 2003; 29: 359-363.
- 'Doctrine of double effect should be discarded'. British Medical Journal 2001; 323: 1248 (Letter).
- 'Assessing competence to refuse medical treatment'. Medical Journal of Australia 2001; 174: 522-525 (with Dr Cameron Stewart).
- 'Advance directive knowledge and research appears lacking in Australia'.Emergency Medicine Australasia 2001; 13: 127-128 (Comment).
- 'Determining the validity of advance directives'. Medical Journal of Australia 2000; 173: 335-6 (with Dr Cameron Stewart, Prof. Julian Savulescu and Prof. Loane Skene)(Comment).
- 'Determining the validity of advance directives'. Medical Journal of Australia 2000; 172:545-8 (with Dr Cameron Stewart, Prof. Julian Savulescu and Prof. Loane Skene).
- 'Factors influencing resuscitation decisions in the emergency department'.Emergency Medicine Australasia 1998; 10: 218-25 (with Assoc. Prof. Graeme Thomson).