George F. Tomossy
Department of Law
Macquarie University
Australia
Biography
George Tomossy is a Senior Lecturer at the Macquarie Law School, and a Barrister and Solicitor of the Bar of Ontario (Canada). George's principal research interests include research ethics and regulation, health governance, and the health/environment nexus. He is involved in various capacity building projects for sustainable development, publication projects and supervision of higher degree research students. He has edited a number of books - Globalisation and Health (Springer 2006), Human Experimentation and Research (Ashgate 2003) and a three-volume collection on Aging (Springer 2001) - and has published in leading peer reviewed Journals, including: International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, Health Law Journal, Monash Bioethics Review, and The Lancet.
Research Interest
Health Law and Bioethics; Research Ethics and Regulation; Globalisation and Public Health; Elder Law; Tort Law; Legal Governance; Capacity Building in Developing Countries; Health, Human Rights and the Environment.
Publications
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Tomossy GF. Human rights, health care and biomedical innovation: Confronting the research imperative. InAutonomy and Human Rights in Health Care 2008 (pp. 341-352). Springer Netherlands.
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Weisstub DN, Arbodela-Florez J, Tomossy GF. Establishing the boundaries of ethically permissible research with special populations.
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Tomossy GF, Weisstub DN. The reform of adult guardianship laws: the case of non-therapeutic experimentation. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry. 1997 Dec 1;20(1):113-39.
