Past events

22 May 2023

At the interface between academic bioethics and clinical practice


At the interface between academic bioethics and clinical practice...

05 Apr 2018

Hot Health | The End of Life Choice Bill: Potential Implications for Healthcare Practitioners


The Bioethics Centre of the University of Otago is holding a panel discussion to...

17 Apr 2023

Health Equity and the Role of Rights


The Bioethics Centre is delighted to present a seminar from Associate Professor...

08 May 2023

The Moral Economy of Market-Driven vs Government-Funded Healthcare


The Bioethics Centre is pleased to host Patrick Bartosch to present this seminar...

01 May 2023

Bioethics Seminar: Pharmacists’ views on the logistics and ethics of supplying tobacco as an endgame initiative


Bioethics Seminar: Pharmacists’ views on the logistics and ethics of supplying t...

29 May 2023

The Moral Contours of University Redundancies


The Bioethics Centre is pleased to host Emeritus Professor Gareth Jones to prese...

24 Apr 2023

Informed Consent and Shared Decision Making


Informed Consent and Shared Decision Making...

01 Sep 2017

Public lectures on animal research


Public lectures on animal research with Dr Helena Hogberg and Professor Roger Mo...

09 May 2017

Screening of Human Harvest


Screening of Human Harvest an unflinching documentary about mass murder for pro...

11 Sep 2017

Bioethics Seminar: Religious input in the debate on embryo research in New Zealand


Gareth Jones examines the extent to which the needs, values and beliefs of Māori...

02 Mar 2020

Getting your DNA tested


For the better part of this century, direct-to-consumer DNA testing has been ava...

23 Jul 2018

Consent to Posthumous Reproduction


A Seminar focusing on the posthumous collection and use of reproductive tissue....

31 Jul 2017

Bioethics Seminar: Well-being and Being


Andrew Moore presents a Bioethics Seminar exploring the idea that difference of...

18 Sep 2017

Bioethics Seminar |"Caught napping”: New Zealand’s response to the 1967 UK Abortion Act


Barbara Brookes explores the impact of the 1967 UK Abortion Act in New Zealand ....

16 Oct 2017

Bioethics Seminar: Anti-obesity policy and distributive ethics


Martin Wilkinson discuses distributive ethics of policies that try to control ob...

08 May 2017

Bioethics Seminar: Whose justice for whom and how? A hermeneutic exploration of Confucian 義 “Righteousness"


William Evans Visiting Fellow Ole Döring introduces a deliberate hermeneutical a...

04 Jul 2012

Do Our Genes Justify Our Behaviour?


21 Nov 2019

Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law Conference


Bioethics conference...

15 May 2017

Bioethics Seminar: From the margins to mainstream: how autologous stem cell treatments are legitimised in Australia.


Casimir MacGregor examines the strategies of legitimacy of Australian providers...

06 Dec 2021

Special Bioethics seminar: Conscientious objection in the new abortion law


This special Bioethics seminar will be presented by lawyer Holly Hedley of Buddl...

13 May 2014

Protecting the Public? An Analysis of Complaints and Disciplinary Proceedings against Doctors in Australia and New Zealand


Publc Lecture hosted by the Faculty of Law...

26 Mar 2018

Bioethics Seminar | Ethical challenges in learning healthcare systems


A seminar in the Bioethics Centre, University of Otago, New Zealand...

05 Mar 2018

Bioethics Seminar | Eugenic sterilisation in New Zealand: The Mental Defectives Amendment Act of 1928


A seminar in the Bioethics Centre, University of Otago, New Zealand...

03 Jun 2014

The New Zealand Bill of Rights: Continuing the Conversation


seminar New Zealand Bill of Rights...

20 Aug 2018

Mike King - Animal Welfare Law in NZ: Are we doing it right?


In 2015, New Zealand was awarded an “A” ranking from World Animal Protection’s A...

21 Sep 2017

Bioethics Seminar | Beyond safety: Ethical issues in gene editing


Josephine Johnston discuses the safety and moral concerns of new gene editing to...

07 Aug 2017

Bioethics Seminar: Hard capacity cases - an English perspective and a plea for help


Alex Ruck Keene presents preliminary results of research into the way in which t...

27 Mar 2023

What does Borderline Personality Disorder tell us about the ethics of consent?


The Bioethics Centre is honoured to host Associate Professor Giles Newton-Howes...

16 Apr 2018

Transgender women’s participation in sport


Transgender Women’s Participation in Sport...

18 Feb 2021

Paediatric Seminar - All deaths are not equal: The Ethics of Counting Deaths during COVID-19


All deaths are not equal: The Ethics of Counting Deaths during COVID-19...

23 Apr 2018

Bioethics Seminar | Will the duty of candour in healthcare work?


A seminar in the Bioethics Centre, University of Otago, New Zealand...

17 Mar 2015

Advocacy to Expand Autonomy at the End of Life in the US: Evolving Law, Medicine and Policy


Public Lecture by Professor Kathryn Tucker on Advocacy to Expand Autonomy at the...

04 Aug 2013

4th Australia-New Zealand Roundtable on Genomics


Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects of Next-Generation Methodologies...

15 Aug 2013

Biculturalism, multiculturalism and interculturalism: theological reflections on justice and cultural diversity


The three terms in the title express different stances on the just treatment of...

13 Aug 2018

The relevance of complexity theory to Bioethics


Discussing The Cynefin Framework and it's relevance to health care and Bioethics...

15 Aug 2013

2013 Winter Lecture Series - Saviour Siblings and Criminal Genes: Law and technology in the 21st century


2013 Winter Lecture Series: Saviour Siblings & Criminal Genes: Law and Technolog

09 Mar 2020

Exploring moral life in the anthropocene - Susan Wardell


This seminar is based on Dr Wardell's research around environmental grief, hope,...

28 Aug 2017

Bioethics Seminar: Contemporary challenges in dementia care


Dr Brent Hyslop outline contemporary challenges in dementia care...

17 Oct 2013

Interested in the Role of the Coroner?


coroner wallace bain - student talks...

16 Mar 2015

Global Animal Law & New Project


Global Animal Law Public Lecture by Sabine Brels...

08 Apr 2019

The death of a human soul


A storied life is the essence of the human soul and it arises in an ecological a...

12 Mar 2018

Bioethics Seminar: High-stakes decision making for young children–An approach to parental refusals of treatment


A public seminar in the Bioethics Centre, University of Otago, New Zealand...

23 Aug 2017

Professor Jing-Bao Nie's Inaugural Professorial Lecture: Reclaiming a sense of common humanity: A Chinese vision


23 August 2017. Professor Jing-Bao Nie, Bioethics Centre, University of Otago, p

21 Feb 2023

The Urgent Need for Psychedelic Ethics - Public Lecture


Open seminar hosted by Brian Earp on 21 February at 5:00pm - The Urgent Need for...

25 Sep 2017

Bioethics Seminar: Challenging the role of conscientious objection in medicine


Angela Ballantyne argues the harm to patients outweighs the harm to objectors of...

21 Aug 2017

Bioethics Seminar: How should we constrain physicians’ discretionary space to ensure good medicine?


Guest speaker Doug McConnell, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Charles Stuart Univ...

19 Feb 2018

Bioethics Seminar | Public deliberation on mandatory childhood vaccination policy


A seminar in the Bioethics Centre, University of Otago, New Zealand...

03 Apr 2023

Rhythms of Life, Brain Damage, and the Recovery of a Self


Rhythms of Life, Brain Damage, and the Recovery of a Self...

14 Oct 2019

Bioethics, Retrospect and Prospect


In this talk, Professor Campbell considers the nature and purpose of bioethics,...

28 May 2018

Bioethics Seminar - Profiting from the sale of bodies and body parts: The world of body brokers.


Gareth Jones, body donation, body brokers, bioethics...

04 Sep 2017

Bioethics Seminar: Echoes and replies


Neil Pickering reflects on teaching involving poetry in a humanities selective i...

01 Oct 2014

Nga Wai Whakaata O Hine-Kauorohia: The Reflecting Waters of Hine Kauorohia


Fulbright/Te Tumu lecture by Sir Tamati Reedy...

06 Aug 2018

Emily Keddell - Predictive risk tools in child welfare


Large linked datasets are increasingly available to researchers, companies and p...

11 Oct 2017

Bioethics Seminar: How the Philosophy gets in


Jesse Wall considers the role that Bioethics plays in Health Law....

04 Oct 2021

The Strange History of Head Transplants (and what it tells us about medical ethics)


Bioethics Seminar by Brandy Schillace....

19 Mar 2018

Bioethics Seminar | Rural nursing: Engaging with the benefits and challenges of the rural setting for sustainable workforce development


A seminar in the Bioethics Centre, University of Otago, New Zealand...

12 Oct 2015

Bioethics Seminar: Do all legal rules that rely on the concept of mental incapacity deny people with disabilities ‘equal recognition before the law’?


John Dawson presents a Bioethics Seminar considering if legal rules that rely o...

19 Feb 2018

Bioethics Seminar: Public deliberation on mandatory childhood vaccination policy


Michael Burgess discusses ethical dimensions that are important for democratic g...

30 Jul 2018

Clare Delany: What kinds of cases do paediatric clinicians refer to clinical ethics


In this talk I will provide an overview of domains of ethical complexity based o...

16 Jul 2018

Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing


In this talk, Janine Winters will introduce the vocabulary of genetic testing an...

05 Aug 2013

Student Animal Legal Defence Fund - Animal Law Week


animal law week - events...

22 Aug 2016

Bioethics Seminar: To Die for One’s Country – the Japanese Way


Seminar explores the distinctively Japanese way of dying for one’s country, hig...

02 Oct 2017

Bioethics Seminar: Coping with death


Ben Gray describes his experience of learning to manage death and dying and spec...

10 Jul 2023

Bioethics Seminar: Should BMI be used in the clinical setting?


Bioethics Seminar: Should BMI be used in the clinical setting?...
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