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03 Oct 2023
Call for single gender hospital rooms to protect human rights
The practice of men and women sharing hospital rooms violates human rights and s...
21 Jul 2023
Updated informed consent statement to be introduced by Aotearoa’s two medical schools
A new informed consent statement for medical students in clinical placements wil...
29 May 2023
Study results prompt call for medicinal cannabis policy evaluation
A New Zealand study into the therapeutic benefits of cannabis has added to the g...
04 Mar 2022
Events
Upcoming bioethics events...
22 Nov 2021
Otago announces Professorial promotions for 2022
Twenty-eight University of Otago academics are being promoted to the position of...
05 Nov 2021
5 November 2021 New postgraduate research opportunity – Māori frameworks for responsible innovation
AgResearch is offering a scholarship for a postgraduate student to contribute to...
27 Jul 2021
27 July 2021, Otago proud to pledge to openness in animal research
The University of Otago is proud to be an inaugural signatory of an agreement wh...
25 Feb 2021
Time to break barriers to human embryo research – Otago academic
The law surrounding human embryo research in New Zealand is a “classic example o...
01 Apr 2020
1 April 2020, PPE an ‘ethical imperative’ for front-line health workers – Otago ethicist
Personal protective equipment for front-line health workers is an ethical impera...
23 Jan 2020
Cat Morton-Burns wins ANZCCART 2019 essay prize
Caitlin Morton-Burns wins ANZCCART 2019 essay prize...
21 Aug 2019
Past Events
Past events hosted by the Bioethics Centre...
17 Jul 2019
Otago researchers call for gender binary in elite sports to be abandoned to cater for trans-athletes
Otago researchers call for gender binary in elite sports to be abandoned to cate...
14 Mar 2019
Otago bioethicist adds voice to global plea for moratorium on heritable genome editing
A University of Otago bioethicist has added his voice to a global plea for a mor...
11 Mar 2019
Tribute to Barry Smith
Tribute to Barry Smith...
11 Feb 2019
Neil Picking interview
Neil Picking interviewed on the philosophy of psychiatry and mental health...
28 Jan 2019
28 January 2019, Otago bioethicists call for more robust system of ethical governance in human gene-editing
University of Otago bioethicists are calling for a more robust system of ethical...
20 Nov 2018
Announcement of the winner of the ANZCCART Essay Prize 2018
Announcement of the winner of the ANZCCART Essay Prize 2018...
03 Jul 2018
DSM's palliative care education in the spotlight
Dunedin School of Medicine's palliative medicine and end of life care module con...
25 May 2018
A citizens' jury on euthanasia
A citizens' jury on euthanasia – Bioethics Centre, University of Otago, New Zeal...