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?...