CHILDREN'S MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATION OF NEW SOUTH WALES

1960 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 149-149
Keyword(s):  
Medical Research ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Medical Research Foundation

scholarly journals ‘Just a Quack Who Can Cure Cancer’: John Braund, and Regulating Cancer Treatment in New South Wales, Australia

2013 ◽  
Vol 57 (2) ◽  
pp. 206-225
Author(s):  
LAURA L. DAWES
Keyword(s):  
Cancer Treatment ◽  
Medical Research ◽  
Public Safety ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Patient Choice ◽  
Economic Opportunity ◽  
Orthodox Medicine ◽  
Treatment Providers ◽  
South Wales

AbstractIn 1948 the New South Wales government instituted an inquiry into the claims of John Braund – a 78-year-old self-described ‘quack’ – that his secret treatment had cured 317 cancer sufferers. The ‘Braund controversy’, as it became known, was one of Australia’s most prominent cases of medical fraud. This paper examines that controversy and its effects on cancer philanthropy, medical research, and especially on legislation regulating treatment providers up to the present. With the Braund controversy in mind, the New South Wales (NSW) parliament struggled to develop legislation that would protect patients and punish quacks but also allow for serendipitous, unorthodox discoveries. Recent decades saw new elements added to this calculus – allowing a wide-ranging health marketplace, and allowing patients to choose their therapies. This paper argues that the particular body of law legislatures used in regulating cancer treatment and how regulations were framed reflected the changing context of healthcare and illustrates the calculus legislatures have undertaken in regulating the health marketplace, variously factoring in public safety, serendipitous discovery, the authority of orthodox medicine, patient choice, and economic opportunity.

Paul Ivan Korner 1925–2012

2013 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 251
Author(s):  
John Chalmers ◽  
James Angus ◽  
Robert Graham ◽  
John Carmody ◽  
Roger Dampney ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Essential Hypertension ◽  
Cardiovascular Diseases ◽  
Medical Research ◽  
New South ◽  
New South Wales ◽  
Major Work ◽  
Royal Prince Alfred Hospital ◽  
South Wales ◽  
Alfred Hospital ◽  
The University

Paul Korner's life's work centered on unraveling the sympatho-adrenal control of the circulation and applying this knowledge to understanding the pathogenesis of hypertension and to improving the management of cardiovascular diseases. He made major contributions as Foundation Professor of Physiology at the University of New South Wales (1960–8), as the first Scandrett Professor of Cardiology at the University of Sydney and the Royal Prince Alfred Hospital (1968–74), and as Director of the Baker Institute for Medical Research (1975–90). After retirement in 1990, he undertook his last major work, writing an influential single-author text, Essential Hypertension and it Causes.

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