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Thomas Alured Faunce (born 8 August 1958) is an Associate Professor jointly in the College of Law and Medical School at the Australian National University (ANU) at Canberra Australia.

[edit] Career

Thomas Alured Faunce graduated with arts and law (honours) from the Australian National University in 1982. As a law student he won the prizes for contracts and air and space law was part of a team which won the Philip C. Jessup Cup international law mooting competition.^[1] Faunce was legal associate to Justice Lionel Murphy of the High Court of Australia in 1983 in the year when it was involved in important decisions about the Australian constitutional power to protect the world's natural heritage in the Franklin River dam case,^[2] Scientology and the Australian constitutional meaning of religion, ^[3] freedom of speech ^[4], trial by jury ^[5], the right to vote^[6] and the political trials of terrorist groups.^[7] During this year he became one of the many post graduate students to occupy the small cottage at the back of the house of the historian Professor Manning Clark in Tasmania Circle, Forest in Canberra and became a friend of the Clark family. Between 1983 and 1987 he worked as a barrister and solicitor with Mallesons Stephen Jaques in Canberra and with Freehills in Sydney. Faunce graduated from medicine at the University of Newcastle in 1993 and practised in Emergency Medicine at Wagga Wagga Base Hospital, and Intensive Care and Clinical Pharmacology and Toxicology at the Canberra Hospital and (as Senior Registrar in Intensive Care) at the Alfred Hospital in Melbourne Australia (where he treated patients involved in the 2002 Bali bombings).^[8]

Faunce completed a PhD on the Human Genome and Health Policy at the ANU in 2000 (supervised by the legal philosopher Tom Campbell) and it was awarded the Crawford prize (best PhD in all fields at the ANU in 2001), named in honour of John Crawford (economist). This has now been published as 'Pilgrims in Medicine' by Kluwer law International, the main concepts, for example, virtue ethics, legalism and human rights, being personified as medical students at various stages of their careers. The text explores the common normative foundations of bioethics, domestic health law and international human rights law, a theme that Faunce has carried into his undergraduate and postgraduate teaching.^[9] Faunce was a founding member of the National Biosecurity Centre at the ANU, serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Medical Humanities and edits the Medical law Reporter for the Australian Journal of Law and Medicine. He has published a text on anaesthetic and intensive care physiology and pharmacology.^[10]

[edit] Academic contribution

Faunce is an author of books, published articles and book chapters. He has three main areas of research: 1) virtue ethics and healthcare whistleblowing 2)international trade agreements and medicines policy and 3) nanotechnology and its impact on global public health. His most recent text 'Who Owns Our Health' argues that corporate executives involved in healthcare institutions should, like doctors, nurses and other health workers, be subject to a code of professional norms.^[11]

Faunce has promoted the idea that whistleblowing, particularly in healthcare, needs to be recognised as having a stronger academic foundation in virtue ethics.^[12]^[13] At the ANU Medical School he developed one of the first academic programs for teaching healthcare whistleblowing within a clinical governance framework and has emphasised the need to draw on the medical humanities to develop professional conscience^[14] as well as the importance of teaching medical students about the impact of corporate globalization on health policy.^[15] Faunce has also encouraged the development of an international treaty on the safety and cost-effectiveness assessment of new health technologies.^[16] He has directed an Australian Research Council grant into the impact of international trade agreements on Australian medicines policy.^[17] He has also directed an ARC research grant on cost-effectiveness assessment of nanomedicine through the evidence-based processes of the Australian Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme.^[18] Through these projects he has assisted to develop the regulatory concept of 'health innovation' or innovation based on objective assessment of the comparative therapeutic significance of a new health technology product.^[19] Faunce in his academic publications and in the media has advocated the important role of nanotechnology in resolving or ameliorating many of the critical public health problems facing humanity, but also of the need to apply the precautionary principle in relation to some of its safety risks.^[20]^[21]^[22]

[edit] Family

He is the son of the Canberra consulting physician Dr Marcus de Laune Faunce ^[23] the grandson of Marcus Gordon Faunce a Lieutenant with the 6th Regiment of the 2nd Brigade in the Australian Light Horse who served in the Gallipoli Campaign, Battle of Romani and Battle of Beersheba in the First World War,^[24] the great grandson of Rev. Canon Alured Dodsworth Faunce of Queanbeyan and Yass, New South Wales 1840–1910 and the great great grandson of Captain Alured Tasker Faunce the first police magistrate in the Queanbeyan-Canberra region 1837–1856.^[25]^[26] Tom Faunce is married to the medieval art historian Roza Passos Faunce and they have a son, Blake.

[edit] References

^ International Law Students Association, Jessup Archives, last accessed 15 June 2009[1]
^ Commonwealth v Tasmania (Franklin River Dam Case) [1983] 158 CLR 1
^ Church of the New Faith v Comm. Pay-Roll Tax (Vict.) [1982–1983] 154 CLR 120
^ Gallagher v Durack [1982–1983] 152 CLR 238
^ Chamberlain v The Queen (No 2) [1983–1984] 153 CLR 521
^ The Queen v Pearson ex parte Sipka [1983] 152 CLR 254
^ Alister &Ors v The Queen [1983–84] 154 CLR 404
^ Faunce TA Forensic Nanotechnology, Biosecurity and Medical Professionalism: Improving the Australian Health Care System's Response to Terrorist Bombings in Oxenham M (ed) Forensic Approaches to Death, Disaster and Abuse 2008 ch 18, 289–298
^ Faunce TA Pilgrims in Medicine: Conscience, Legalism and Human Rights. Kluwer Law International 2003
^ Faunce TA. The Australian Intensive Care and Anaesthesia Primary Exam. 9th ed. Pirion Press 2009.
^ Faunce TA Who Owns Our Health; Medical Professionalism, Law and Leadership Beyond the Age of the Market State UNSW Press and Johns Hopkins University Press in the USA and Europe 2007, ISBN 0868408212
^ Faunce TA Developing and Teaching the Virtue-Ethics Foundations of Healthcare Whistle Blowing Monash Bioethics Review 2004; 23(4): 41–55
^ Faunce TA and Jefferys S. Whistleblowing and Scientific Misconduct: Renewing Legal and Virtue Ethics Foundations Journal of Medicine and Law 2007, 26 (3): 567–84
^ Faunce TA. Normative Role for Medical Humanities. Lancet 2003; 362: 1859
^ Faunce TA and Gatenby P. Flexner’s Ethical Oversight Reprised? Contemporary Medical Education and the Health Impacts of Corporate Globalization Medical Education 2005; 39 (10): 1066–1074
^ Faunce TA Toward a Treaty on Safety and Cost-Effectiveness of Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices: Enhancing an Endangered Global Public Good Globalization and Health 2006; 2 (5): 1–9
^ Faunce TA, Doran E, Henry D, Drahos P. Assessing the Impact of the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) on Australian and Global Medicines Policy Globalisation and Health 2005; 1: 1–15
^ Faunce TA. Policy Challenges of Nanomedicine for Australia's Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) Australian Health Review 2009; 33 (2): 258–267
^ Faunce TA. Global Intellectual Property Protection for Innovative Pharmaceuticals: Challenges for Bioethics and Health Law in Globalization and Health. B Bennett and GF Tomossy, eds., pp. 87–108, Springer, Dordrecht, 2005
^ Faunce TA et al Sunscreen Safety: The Precautionary Principle Nanoethics 2008; 2: 231–240.[2]
^ Faunce TA, White JW, Matthaei KI. Integrated Research into the Nanoparticle-Protein Corona: A New Multidisciplinary Focus for Safe, Sustainable and Equitable Development of Nanomedicines Nanomedicine 2008; 3 (6):859–866.[3]
^ Faunce TA. Toxicological and public good considerations for the regulation of nanomaterial-containing medical products. Expert Opin. Drug Saf. (2008) 7(2):103–106.[4]
^ Marcus Faunce Obituary Medical Journal of Australia 2004; 181(9): 504
^ Yass and District Historical Society Inc. Faces From a War. World War One Gallery 4, last accessed 15 June 2009[5]
^ Captain Alured Tasker Faunce of Queanbeyan 1837–1856 and Rev. Canon Alured Dodsworth Faunce of Queanbeyan and Yass 1840–1910, 9 pages, by Dr. M de L. Faunce (Canberra & District Historical Society, 1962)
^ Pioneer Families of Australia, last accessed 16 June 2009[6]

[edit] Sources

[0] International Law Students Association, Jessup Archives, last accessed 15 June 2009[1]

[1] Commonwealth v Tasmania (Franklin River Dam Case) [1983] 158 CLR 1

[2] Church of the New Faith v Comm. Pay-Roll Tax (Vict.) [1982–1983] 154 CLR 120

[3] Gallagher v Durack [1982–1983] 152 CLR 238

[4] Chamberlain v The Queen (No 2) [1983–1984] 153 CLR 521

[5] The Queen v Pearson ex parte Sipka [1983] 152 CLR 254

[6] Alister &Ors v The Queen [1983–84] 154 CLR 404

[7] Faunce TA Forensic Nanotechnology, Biosecurity and Medical Professionalism: Improving the Australian Health Care System's Response to Terrorist Bombings in Oxenham M (ed) Forensic Approaches to Death, Disaster and Abuse 2008 ch 18, 289–298

[8] Faunce TA Pilgrims in Medicine: Conscience, Legalism and Human Rights. Kluwer Law International 2003

[9] Faunce TA. The Australian Intensive Care and Anaesthesia Primary Exam. 9th ed. Pirion Press 2009.

[10] Faunce TA Who Owns Our Health; Medical Professionalism, Law and Leadership Beyond the Age of the Market State UNSW Press and Johns Hopkins University Press in the USA and Europe 2007, ISBN 0868408212

[11] Faunce TA Developing and Teaching the Virtue-Ethics Foundations of Healthcare Whistle Blowing Monash Bioethics Review 2004; 23(4): 41–55

[12] Faunce TA and Jefferys S. Whistleblowing and Scientific Misconduct: Renewing Legal and Virtue Ethics Foundations Journal of Medicine and Law 2007, 26 (3): 567–84

[13] Faunce TA. Normative Role for Medical Humanities. Lancet 2003; 362: 1859

[14] Faunce TA and Gatenby P. Flexner’s Ethical Oversight Reprised? Contemporary Medical Education and the Health Impacts of Corporate Globalization Medical Education 2005; 39 (10): 1066–1074

[15] Faunce TA Toward a Treaty on Safety and Cost-Effectiveness of Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices: Enhancing an Endangered Global Public Good Globalization and Health 2006; 2 (5): 1–9

[16] Faunce TA, Doran E, Henry D, Drahos P. Assessing the Impact of the Australia-United States Free Trade Agreement (AUSFTA) on Australian and Global Medicines Policy Globalisation and Health 2005; 1: 1–15

[17] Faunce TA. Policy Challenges of Nanomedicine for Australia's Pharmaceutical Benefits Scheme (PBS) Australian Health Review 2009; 33 (2): 258–267

[18] Faunce TA. Global Intellectual Property Protection for Innovative Pharmaceuticals: Challenges for Bioethics and Health Law in Globalization and Health. B Bennett and GF Tomossy, eds., pp. 87–108, Springer, Dordrecht, 2005

[19] Faunce TA et al Sunscreen Safety: The Precautionary Principle Nanoethics 2008; 2: 231–240.[2]

[20] Faunce TA, White JW, Matthaei KI. Integrated Research into the Nanoparticle-Protein Corona: A New Multidisciplinary Focus for Safe, Sustainable and Equitable Development of Nanomedicines Nanomedicine 2008; 3 (6):859–866.[3]

[21] Faunce TA. Toxicological and public good considerations for the regulation of nanomaterial-containing medical products. Expert Opin. Drug Saf. (2008) 7(2):103–106.[4]

[22] Marcus Faunce Obituary Medical Journal of Australia 2004; 181(9): 504

[23] Yass and District Historical Society Inc. Faces From a War. World War One Gallery 4, last accessed 15 June 2009[5]

[24] Captain Alured Tasker Faunce of Queanbeyan 1837–1856 and Rev. Canon Alured Dodsworth Faunce of Queanbeyan and Yass 1840–1910, 9 pages, by Dr. M de L. Faunce (Canberra & District Historical Society, 1962)

[25] Pioneer Families of Australia, last accessed 16 June 2009[6]

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