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Consultation and Public Services
We offer a consultancy service in matters of health law and ethics. We are especially well equipped to provide advice on conceptual clarification and health care analysis. We are open to proposals from corporations, institutes, not-for-profit organisations, and community organisations alike. We will also advise individuals and families who face specific ethical problems, as our resources allow.
Professor David Seedhouse
David is a well-known writer of texts on the philosophy of health, health care ethics and health promotion. He has worked at the Universities of Wolverhampton, Leicester, Liverpool and Middlesex (see http://www.mdx.ac.uk/ ) in the UK, and at Auckland University in New Zealand. David was the first full-time lecturer in medical ethics to be appointed to a British University (at Liverpool, in 1988).
David teaches on postgraduate programmes, supervises PhD students and continues to research and publish widely. See http://www.wiley.co.uk/ for books published by David on Health Promotion and on Ethical Decision-making programmes. (On leave until April, 2010)
Kate Diesfeld JD - Director of Centre, Associate Professor
Kate is member of the California State Bar. She was both a legal academic at the University of Kent at Canterbury and represented patients before the Mental Health Review Tribunal in England for eight years. Kate established the Kent Law Clinic (Mental Health and Learning Disabilities) at UKC in 1992. In 2001 she became a Senior Lecturer in Health Law and Policy, was appointed Associate Professor in 2007 and is the Director of the National Centre for Health Law and Ethics, AUT University. Kate's research interests include: disability and mental health law; medical law; and medical ethics. She is the co-editor (with Professor Ian Freckelton) of Involuntary Detention and Therapeutic Jurisprudence: International Perspectives on Civil Commitment (2003) from Ashgate Publishers. In 2008 she was Policy Analyst for Auckland Disability Law, New Zealand's first free community law centre dedicated to disability law.
Rosemary Godbold - PhD, Senior Lecturer
Senior Lecturer in Health Care Ethics, National Centre for Health Law and Ethics.
Rosemary is a practising registered nurse. She is the paper leader for Professional Practice and Ethics’ and teaches on Health Law and Policy on the following: Bachelor of Health Science degrees; physiotherapy, oral health, podiatry, paramedicine, health promotion, applied mental health, psychology. She also leads the Ethics of Health Promotion paper. She is co-convenor of the Ethics of Emerging Biological and Health Science Technologies paper and Faculty representative to AUT Ethics Committee. She facilitated interdisciplinary workshops for health professionals, educators and post-graduate students on practical application of ethics in health care practice. Her PhD thesis was “Philosophical Critique of the Best Interests Test as a Criterion for Decision Making in Law and Clinical Practice“.
Professor David Seedhouse
David is a well-known writer of texts on the philosophy of health, health care ethics and health promotion. He has worked at the Universities of Wolverhampton, Leicester, Liverpool and Middlesex (see http://www.mdx.ac.uk/ ) in the UK, and at Auckland University in New Zealand. David was the first full-time lecturer in medical ethics to be appointed to a British University (at Liverpool, in 1988).David teaches on postgraduate programmes, supervises PhD students and continues to research and publish widely. See http://www.wiley.co.uk/ for books published by David on Health Promotion and on Ethical Decision-making programmes. (On leave until April, 2010)
Kate Diesfeld JD - Director of Centre, Associate Professor
Kate is member of the California State Bar. She was both a legal academic at the University of Kent at Canterbury and represented patients before the Mental Health Review Tribunal in England for eight years. Kate established the Kent Law Clinic (Mental Health and Learning Disabilities) at UKC in 1992. In 2001 she became a Senior Lecturer in Health Law and Policy, was appointed Associate Professor in 2007 and is the Director of the National Centre for Health Law and Ethics, AUT University. Kate's research interests include: disability and mental health law; medical law; and medical ethics. She is the co-editor (with Professor Ian Freckelton) of Involuntary Detention and Therapeutic Jurisprudence: International Perspectives on Civil Commitment (2003) from Ashgate Publishers. In 2008 she was Policy Analyst for Auckland Disability Law, New Zealand's first free community law centre dedicated to disability law.Rosemary Godbold - PhD, Senior Lecturer
Senior Lecturer in Health Care Ethics, National Centre for Health Law and Ethics.Rosemary is a practising registered nurse. She is the paper leader for Professional Practice and Ethics’ and teaches on Health Law and Policy on the following: Bachelor of Health Science degrees; physiotherapy, oral health, podiatry, paramedicine, health promotion, applied mental health, psychology. She also leads the Ethics of Health Promotion paper. She is co-convenor of the Ethics of Emerging Biological and Health Science Technologies paper and Faculty representative to AUT Ethics Committee. She facilitated interdisciplinary workshops for health professionals, educators and post-graduate students on practical application of ethics in health care practice. Her PhD thesis was “Philosophical Critique of the Best Interests Test as a Criterion for Decision Making in Law and Clinical Practice“.
Last updated: 15 Jun 2009 4:42pm