Deborah Zion

Associate Professor Deborah Zion has taught medical ethics for many years. She is currently the Chair of the Human Research Ethics Committee at Victoria University, and teaches in the PhD program.

Deborah Zion reviews 'The Woman's Power Handbook' by Joan Kirner and Moira Rayner

July 1999, no. 212 • 01 July 1999

What do women want and how can they get it? These questions were at the heart of second wave feminism. The Women’s Power Handbook focuses on the second of these queries. The idea for the book was born when Moira Rayner and Joan Kirner met touring Victoria with Naomi Wolfe. On their travels they were struck by the questions that young women asked. Most of these related to practical issues about p ... (read more)

Deborah Zion reviews 'Ethics Under Fire: Challenges for the Australian army' edited by Tom Frame and Albert Palazzo

March 2018, no. 399 • 03 January 2018

Miranda: Oh brave new world, that has such people in it ...Prospero: Tis new to thee ... The Tempest In July 1942 the Police Battalion 101 was ordered to murder all the older men, women, and children in Józefów, in Poland. Major Wilhelm Trapp, a member of the Nazi Party, led the battalion. He made an unprecedented offer. If any older members of the battalion felt unable to proceed, they could ... (read more)

Deborah Zion reviews 'Time to Die' by Rodney Syme

April 2017, no. 390 • 24 March 2017

Ethicist, physician, and writer Eric Cassell has remarked that it is troubling that patients and laypersons consider the relief of suffering to be one of the primary ends of medicine, yet the medical profession neglects it. It is even more disturbing given that we are on a daily basis confronted with images of war, pain, and displacement. Rodney Syme’s book about ending life brings issues relati ... (read more)