Contact Details
- Phone
- +64 3 471 6135
- john.mcmillan@otago.ac.nz
University Links
- Position
- Professor
- Department
- Department of Bioethics (Dunedin)
- Qualifications
- BA(Hons) PhD(Otago)
- Research summary
- The methods of bioethics, prioritisation, public health ethics, the philosophy and ethics of mental health and research ethics. I’m always happy to talk with those thinking about postgraduate projects in these areas.
- Teaching
- Co-ordinator, BITC 403 Issues in Law, Ethics and Medicine
- Teach into BITC 405 Bioethics in Clinical Practice
- Teach into BITC 404 Ethics and Health Care
- Teach into MICN 201–501
- Memberships
- Member, National Screening Advisory Committee (NSAC)
- Editorial Board, Research Ethics Forum
- Editorial Board, Monash Bioethics Review
- Editorial Board, Journal of Scholarly Publishing
Research
John has published broadly within bioethics.
His book projects include Principles of Healthcare Ethics (with Ashcroft, Dawson, and Draper) 2007, Empirical Ethics in Psychiatry (with Widdershoven, Hope, and Van der Scheer) OUP 2008, The Limits of Consent (with Corrigan, Liddell, Richards, and Weijer) OUP 2009, and Responsibility and Psychopathy: Interfacing Law, Psychiatry, and Philosophy (with Malatesti) OUP 2010.
His most recent book is The Methods of Bioethics: An Essay in Metabioethics which was published in 2018.