Tamara Browne

Adjuncts

Dr Tamara Browne

Adjunct Research Fellow

Tamara Kayali Browne, a bioethicist and philosopher of medicine, is a Senior Lecturer in Health Ethics at Deakin University and Adjunct Research Fellow in the Practical and Public Ethics Research Group at Charles Sturt University. She completed her PhD at the University of Cambridge and later served as Lecturer in Bioethics at the Australian National University, winning three teaching awards. Her primary research expertise is in the ethics of non-medical sex selection, gender and mental illness. Her book, Depression and the Self: Meaning, Control and Authenticity, was published with Cambridge University Press in 2018. Her papers have appeared in such journals as the Journal of Medical Ethics; Philosophy, Psychiatry and Psychology; Health, Risk and Society; and Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy. Her work has also appeared in the media, including The Guardian, The Huffington Post, The Conversation, Psychology Today, The Globe and Mail, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, ABC radio and The Project.

Applied Ethics, and Medical Ethics, both at Deakin University.

Books

2018       Browne, T.K. Depression and the Self: Meaning, Control and Authenticity, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Refereed Journal Articles/Book Chapters

2022       Brown, P. & Browne, T.K. ‘Relational Autonomy: Addressing the  Vulnerabilities of Women in a Global Pandemic’, Lilith (accepted).
Scimago ranking: not found

2022       Hendl, T. & Browne, T.K. Gender, in The Routledge Handbook on Feminist  Bioethics, Rogers, W.A., Scully, J.L., Carter, S.M., Entwistle, V.A., and Mills, C. (eds), Abingdon: Routledge.

2021       Browne, T.K. Know Thyself: Jane Discovers the Value of Her Depression, in International Perspectives in Values-based Mental Health Practice: Case Studies and Commentaries, Stoyanov, D., Fulford, B., Stanghellini, G., Van Staden, W., Wong, M.T. (eds), Cham: Springer Nature, pp. 319-324.

2020      Browne, T.K. & Clarke, S. Bioconservatism, Bioenhancement and Backfiring. Journal of Moral Education, 49 (2): 241-256.  2nd most-read article in the journal in 2020.
Scimago ranking: Q1  Citations: 6

2020       Hendl, T. & Browne, T.K. Is ‘Gender Disappointment’ a Unique Mental Illness? Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 23: 281-294.
Scimago ranking: Q2  Citations: 5

2018       Uniacke, S.; Browne, T.K.; Shields, L. How Should We Understand Family-Centred Care? Journal of Child Health Care, 22 (3): 460-469.
Scimago ranking: Q1  Citations: 57

2017       Browne, T.K. A Role for Philosophers, Sociologists and Bioethicists in Revising the DSM: A Philosophical Case Conference. Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 24 (3): 187-201.
Published as a Philosophical Case Conference – i.e. most of the journal is dedicated to my paper, 8 peer commentaries and my response to the commentaries.
Scimago ranking: Q1  Citations: 24

2017       Browne, T.K. How Sex Selection Undermines Reproductive Autonomy. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 14 (2): 195-204.
Scimago ranking: Q2  Citations: 16

2017       Browne, T.K. Why Parents Should Not Be Told the Sex of Their Fetus. Journal of Medical Ethics, 43 (1): 5-10. Feature article with peer commentary. One of the top ten most frequently read papers in the journal that year.
Scimago ranking: Q1  Citations: 22

2017       Forbes Shepherd, R; Browne, T.K.; Warwick, L. A Relational Approach to Genetic Counseling for Hereditary Breast and Ovarian Cancer. Journal of Genetic Counseling, 26 (2): 283-299.
Scimago ranking: Q2  Citations: 16

Invited Commentaries and Responses

Forthcoming       Browne, T.K. Commentary on “Interrogating Incongruence”: Alternative Ways of Describing What It Is To Be Trans, Australasian Philosophical Review (accepted).

2022       Brown, P. & Browne, T.K. Vulnerability in Lockdown: Women and Agency During the Global Pandemic, International Journal of Feminist Approaches to Bioethics, 15 (1): 187-188.

2021       Browne, T.K. Moral Enhancement Where It Would Make the Most Difference, AJOB Neuroscience, 12:2-3, 107-108.

2017       Browne, T.K. An Ethics Review Panel for the DSM: A Worthwhile Challenge. Philosophy, Psychiatry, & Psychology, 24 (3): 235-240.

2017       Browne, T.K. Why Parents Should Not Be Told the Sex of Their Fetus: A Response to the Commentaries. Journal of Medical Ethics, 43 (1): 19-21.