Contact Details
- Phone
- +64 3 471 6126
- neil.pickering@otago.ac.nz
University Links
- Position
- Professor
- Department
- Department of Bioethics (Dunedin)
- Qualifications
- BA(Gen Hons)(Exe) MPhil(CNAA) MA PhD(Wales)
- Research summary
- Philosophy, concepts, and ethics of health and disease
- Teaching
Undergraduate and postgraduate bioethics
- Memberships
- Member International Network for Philosophy and Psychiatry (INPP) 14th International Conference Academic Advisory Committee
- Member National Ethics Advisory Committee (NEAC)
Research
The philosophy of mental health considers fundamental questions about some of our most profound concerns and ideas. When the human being suffers either in the body or in the mind, how are we to understand what is going on? What are the limits of the scientific biologically based understanding offered by medicine? How are the foundational concepts of professional health carers—disease, illness, health—to be understood? Are they truly scientific concepts? Do they have essences, or can they be described in terms of neat definitive criteria?
There are lively and divisive debates about all these issues. To these debates I bring a focus on the extension of concepts of disease from the physical to the mental; and on the ideas about concepts which those engaged in such debates presume. In particular, I am interested in what resources Wittgenstein's philosophy might offer the debate. Is his notion of 'family resemblance' helpful?
Additional details
I offer supervision in health concepts (e.g. health, disease and illness), including reality and nature of mental illness, classical vs non-classical health concepts, evaluative vs non-evaluative health concepts.
Publications
Pickering, N. (2026). Threats to humanity and doctors' duties. Emergency Medicine Australasia, 38, e70252. doi: 10.1111/1742-6723.70252 Journal - Research Other
Fenton, E., Willing, E., Pickering, N. J., Yeo, W., & Barham, S. (2026). Equity in the ICU: An exploratory qualitative study of the ethical acceptability of a reserve system for allocating limited ICU resources. Journal of Medical Ethics. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1136/jme-2025-111328 Journal - Research Article
Pickering, N. (2025, September). Getting clear about concepts. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Inaugural Professorial Lecture]. Other Research Output
Pickering, N. (2025). Does decision-making capacity assessment have a future? Proceedings of the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law (AABHL) Conference. Retrieved from https://aabhl2025.w.events4you.currinda.com Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Mentzel, C., Pickering, N., McMillan, J., & Dowie, T. (2025, September). How to apply ethical principles to practical decision making in the new Mental Health Act. Verbal presentation at the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) New Zealand Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand. Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
2026
Journal - Research Article
Fenton, E., Willing, E., Pickering, N. J., Yeo, W., & Barham, S. (2026). Equity in the ICU: An exploratory qualitative study of the ethical acceptability of a reserve system for allocating limited ICU resources. Journal of Medical Ethics. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1136/jme-2025-111328
Journal - Research Other
Pickering, N. (2026). Threats to humanity and doctors' duties. Emergency Medicine Australasia, 38, e70252. doi: 10.1111/1742-6723.70252
2025
Journal - Research Article
Winters, J. P., Walker, S., Pickering, N. J., & Jaye, C. (2025). Conduit or conductor? Physician providers' descriptions of their role as MAiD assessors in the first years after legalisation in Canada. Journal of Medical Ethics. Advance online publication. doi: 10.1136/jme-2024-110518
Penfield Winters, J., Jaye, C., Pickering, N. J., & Walker, S. (2025). Providing medically assisted dying in Canada: A qualitative study of emotional and moral impact. Journal of Medical Ethics, 51(6), 400-410. doi: 10.1136/jme-2024-110137
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Pickering, N. (2025). Does decision-making capacity assessment have a future? Proceedings of the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law (AABHL) Conference. Retrieved from https://aabhl2025.w.events4you.currinda.com
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Mentzel, C., Pickering, N., McMillan, J., & Dowie, T. (2025, September). How to apply ethical principles to practical decision making in the new Mental Health Act. Verbal presentation at the Royal Australian & New Zealand College of Psychiatrists (RANZCP) New Zealand Conference, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Working Paper; Discussion Paper; Technical Report
National Ethics Advisory Committee, including Moerenhout, T., McMillan, J., Pickering, N., & Towns, C. (2025). Finding balance: Ethical principles for epidemics and pandemics. (pp. 1-112). Wellington, New Zealand: National Ethics Advisory Committee (NEAC), Ministry of Health. Retrieved from https://neac.health.govt.nz
Other Research Output
Pickering, N. (2025, September). Getting clear about concepts. University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Inaugural Professorial Lecture].
2024
Journal - Research Other
McMillan, J., & Pickering, N. (2024). Appreciating your interests. American Journal of Bioethics, 24(8), 106-108. doi: 10.1080/15265161.2024.2361906
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Pickering, N., Newton-Howes, G., & Walker, S. (2024). Describing difficulties. Proceedings of the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law (AABHL) Conference. Retrieved from https://aabhlconference.com
2023
Journal - Research Article
Newton-Howes, G., Walker, S., & Pickering, N. J. (2023). Epistemic problems with mental health legislation in the doctor–patient relationship. Journal of Medical Ethics, 49, 727-732. doi: 10.1136/jme-2022-108610
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Pickering, N., Walker, S., & Newton-Howes, G. (2023). Why we should be sceptical about internalism. Proceedings of the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law (AABHL) Conference. Retrieved from https://aabhlconference.com/2023
2022
Journal - Research Article
Penfield Winters, J., Pickering, N., & Jaye, C. (2022). Winging it: A qualitative study of knowledge-acquisition experiences for early adopting providers of medical assistance in dying. Palliative Care & Social Practice, 16, 1-12. doi: 10.1177/26323524221103889
Pickering, N. J., Newton-Howes, G., & Walker, S. (2022). Risk-related standards of competence are a nonsense. Journal of Medical Ethics, 48, 893-898. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2021-108107
Pickering, N., Newton-Howes, G., & Young, G. (2022). Harmful choices, the case of C, and decision-making competence. American Journal of Bioethics, 22(10), 38-50. doi: 10.1080/15265161.2021.1941422
Journal - Research Other
Walker, S., Williams, O., Newton-Howes, G., & Pickering, N. (2022). Reformulating decision-making capacity. American Journal of Bioethics, 22(11), 92-94. doi: 10.1080/15265161.2022.2123995
Pickering, N. J., Newton-Howes, G., & Walker, S. (2022). Risk-relativity is still a nonsense. Journal of Medical Ethics, 48(12), 1056-1057. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2022-108379
2021
Chapter in Book - Research
Pickering, N. (2021). Covert treatment in a cross-cultural setting. In D. Stoyanov, B. Fulford, G. Stanghellini, W. Van Staden & M. T. Wong (Eds.), International perspectives in values-based mental health practice: Case studies and commentaries. (pp. 263-271). Cham, Switzerland: Springer. doi: 10.1007/978-3-030-47852-0_30
Journal - Research Article
Winters, J. P., Pickering, N., & Jaye, C. (2021). Because it was new: Unexpected experiences of physician providers during Canada's early years of legal medical assistance in dying. Health Policy, 125, 1489-1497. doi: 10.1016/j.healthpol.2021.09.012
Pickering, N. J. (2021). Covert medication and patient identity: Placing the ethical analysis in a worldwide context. Journal of Medical Ethics, 47, e49. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2020-106695
Journal - Research Other
Duncan, R., Paterson, H., Anderson, L., & Pickering, N. (2021). Proactively providing contraception to New Zealand adolescents. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 61, 484-486. doi: 10.1111/ajo.13343
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Pickering, N. (2021). Competence standards should not be risk-related. Proceedings of the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law (AABHL) Conference. Retrieved from https://aabhl.org/conferences/
Other Research Output
Pickering, N. (2021, May). Harmful choices and health-care decision-making competence. Philosophy Programme Seminar Series, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Department Seminar].
Pickering, N., Walker, S., & Newton-Howes, G. (2021, September). Asymmetry, competence and risk: The scale of the problem. Bioethics Centre, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Department Seminar].
2020
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Duncan, R., Paterson, H., Anderson, L., & Pickering, N. (2020). Proactive provision of long-acting reversible contraception to New Zealand adolescents. New Zealand Medical Journal, 133(1527), (pp. 128). Retrieved from https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal
Other Research Output
Nie, J-B., & Pickering, N. (2020, July). End the global war against Covid-19: The ubiquity and dangers of military language. Bioethics Centre, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Department Seminar].
Pickering, N. (2020, March). Decision-making incompetence and harmful choice. Bioethics Centre, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Department Seminar].
2019
Chapter in Book - Research
Pickering, N., Anderson, L., & Skegg, P. (2019). Healthcare ethics education at the University of Otago - and the Master of Bioethics and Health Law. In V. T. Chuan, R. Huxtable & N. Peart (Eds.), Healthcare ethics, law and professionalism: Essays on the works of Alastair V. Campbell. (pp. 181-196). Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
Journal - Research Article
Newton-Howes, G., Pickering, N., & Young, G. (2019). Authentic decision-making capacity in hard medical cases. Clinical Ethics, 14(4), 173-177. doi: 10.1177/1477750919876248
Duncan, R., Paterson, H., Anderson, L., & Pickering, N. (2019). 'We're kidding ourselves if we say that contraception is accessible': A qualitative study of general practitioners' attitudes towards adolescents' use of long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARC). Journal of Primary Health Care, 11(2), 138-145. doi: 10.1071/HC18105
Duncan, R., Anderson, L., & Pickering, N. (2019). Closing the gap between need and uptake: A case for proactive contraception provision to adolescents. Asian Bioethics Review, 11(1), 95-109. doi: 10.1007/s41649-019-00082-6
Duncan, R., Paterson, H., Anderson, L., & Pickering, N. (2019). A qualitative analysis on adolescents' opinions of proactive long-lasting reversible contraceptive (LARC) provision. New Zealand Medical Journal, 132(1488), 38-48. Retrieved from https://www.nzma.org.nz/journal
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Pickering, N., Newton-Howes, G., & Young, G. (2019). Cautious paternalism in psychiatric ethics. Proceedings of the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law (AABHL) and New Zealand Bioethics (NZB) Joint Conference. (pp. 61). Retrieved from http://aabhlnzb2019.w.events4you.currinda.com/
Duncan, R., Anderson, L., Paterson, H., & Pickering, N. (2019). Proactive provision of contraception to adolescents in New Zealand: A concept. Proceedings of the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law (AABHL) and New Zealand Bioethics (NZB) Joint Conference. (pp. 37-38). Retrieved from http://aabhlnzb2019.w.events4you.currinda.com/
2018
Journal - Research Article
Gamble Blakey, A., & Pickering, N. (2018). Putting it on the table: Towards better cultivating medical student values. Medical Science Educator, 28(3), 533-542. doi: 10.1007/s40670-018-0584-8
Other Research Output
Nie, J-B. & Pickering, N. (2018, December). He Jiankui's genetic misadventure, Part 2: How different are Chinese and Western bioethics? Hastings Bioethics Forum: The Blog of the Hastings Centre Report. Retrieved from https://www.thehastingscenter.org/jiankuis-genetic-misadventure-part-2-different-chinese-western-bioethics/
Pickering, N. (2018, September). Covert treatment with transcultural bioethics. Bioethics Centre, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Department Seminar].
2017
Journal - Research Other
Pickering, N. (2017). Zachar on classification and the concept of mental disorder. Association for the Advancement of Philosophy & Psychiatry Bulletin, 24(1), 16-20. [Commentary].
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Duncan, R., Anderson, L., Paterson, H., & Pickering, N. (2017). Proactive long acting reversible contraception (LARC) provision: Adolescents' perspectives. Proceedings of the University of Otago Student Research Symposium: Te Wānaka Rakahau: Ākoka. (pp. 21). Retrieved from http://www.otago.ac.nz/graduate-research/scholarships/otago643219.html
Pickering, N. (2017). The concept of disease: There's very little to it. Proceedings of the New Zealand Association of Philosophers Conference. (pp. 21). Retrieved from http://www.otago.ac.nz/philosophy/
Duncan, R., Anderson, L., Paterson, H., & Pickering, N. (2017). Proactive Long Acting Reversible Contraception (LARC) provision: Adolescents' perspectives. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Obstetrics & Gynaecology, 57(Suppl. 1), (pp. 11-12). doi: 10.1111/ajo.12723
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Pickering, N. (2017, January). Impaired capacity. Plenary presentation at the New Zealand Bioethics Conference: Bioethics and Health Law in the Information Age, Dunedin, New Zealand.
2016
Journal - Research Article
Pickering, N. (2016). Disease, variety, disagreement, and typicality: Advantage Roschian concepts? Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology, 23(1), 17-31. doi: 10.1353/ppp.2016.0003
Pickering, N., & Nie, J.-B. (2016). Transcultural ADHD and bioethics: Reformulating a double dichotomized debate. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal, 26(3), 249-275. doi: 10.1353/ken.2016.0024
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Duncan, R., Anderson, L., Paterson, H., & Pickering, N. (2016). Providing long-acting reversible contraceptives (LARCs) to adolescents: What do adolescents want? [Plenary]. Proceedings of the Sexual and Reproductive Health and Rights Conference. (pp. 5). Retrieved from http://www.familyplanning.org.nz/about/our-events/conference-2016
Pickering, N. (2016). Thomas Szasz and the insanity defence. Proceedings of the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law (AABHL) Conference. Retrieved from https://aabhl.org/
2015
Chapter in Book - Research
Levack, W. M. M., Siegert, R. J., & Pickering, N. (2015). Ethics and goal setting. In R. J. Siegert & W. M. M. Levack (Eds.), Rehabilitation goal setting: Theory, practice and evidence. (pp. 67-88). Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.
Journal - Research Other
Pickering, N. (2015). When lack of evidence is evidence of lack. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 12(4), 545-547. doi: 10.1007/s11673-015-9675-z
Pickering, N., Anderson, L., & Paterson, H. (2015). Authors' reply re: Teens and young adults should be started on longacting reversible contraceptives before sexual activity commences: An opt-out programme to avoid teen pregnancy. BJOG, 122(13), 1848-1849. doi: 10.1111/1471-0528.13703
Pickering, N., Anderson, L., & Paterson, H. (2015). Teens and young adults should be started on long-acting reversible contraceptives before sexual activity commences: For: An opt-out programme would avoid teen pregnancy and associated costs [Debate]. BJOG, 122(8), 1052. doi: 10.1111/1471-0528.13465
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Anderson, L., Pickering, N., & Poulton, R. (2015). Ethical considerations in longitudinal research. Proceedings of the Ethics in Practice Conference. Retrieved from http://www.otago.ac.nz/ethicsreviewproject/conference/
Conference Contribution - Poster Presentation (not in published proceedings)
Pickering, N., Anderson, L., & Paterson, H. (2015, July). Teens and young adults should be started on long acting reversible contraceptives before sexual activity commences. Poster session presented at the Perinatal Society of New Zealand (PSNZ) 35th Annual Scientific Meeting, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Pickering, N. (2015, June). Disease as a superordinate level concept. Verbal presentation at the Australasian Association of Bioethics & Health Law (AABHL) Conference: Working with Diversity, Wellington, New Zealand.
Other Research Output
Pickering, N. (2015, April). Could we do without a concept of disease?. Department of Philosophy, University of Otago, Dunedin, New Zealand. [Department Seminar].
2014
Journal - Research Article
Pickering, N. (2014). A random blend: The self in Philip Larkin's poems: "Ambulances" and "The building". Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 11(2), 163-170. doi: 10.1007/s11673-014-9521-8
Journal - Research Other
Pickering, N. (2014). [Review of the book Coercive care rights, law and policy]. Asian Bioethics Review, 6(3), 320-324. doi: 10.1353/asb.2014.0020
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Pickering, N. (2014, January). ADHD: Culture and human nature. Verbal presentation at the New Zealand Bioethics Conference: New Questions New Answers Symposium, Dunedin, New Zealand.
2013
Journal - Research Article
Pickering, N. (2013). Extending disorder: Essentialism, family resemblance and secondary sense. Medicine, Health Care & Philosophy, 16(2), 185-195. doi: 10.1007/s11019-011-9372-6
Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles
Pickering, N. (2013). Ethics commentary. Asian Bioethics Review, 5(3), 245-249. doi: 10.1353/asb.2013.0055
Pickering, N. (2013). Conclusion. Asian Bioethics Review, 5(3), 222-223. doi: 10.1353/asb.2013.0052
Pickering, N. (2013). Ethics commentary. Asian Bioethics Review, 5(3), 212-216. doi: 10.1353/asb.2013.0044
Pickering, N. (2013). Covert treatment of violent patients. Asian Bioethics Review, 5(3), 198-202. doi: 10.1353/asb.2013.0036
Pickering, N. J. (2013). Doubting Thomas [Obituary]. Journal of Medical Ethics, 39(10), 658-659. doi: 10.1136/medethics-2012-101268
Conference Contribution - Poster Presentation (not in published proceedings)
Amos, C., Gillett, G., & Pickering, N. (2013, September). Understanding clinician-patient relationships in psychiatry. Poster session presented at the Division of Health Sciences Research Forum: Foundations for Health: Otago Health Research, Christchurch, New Zealand.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Pickering, N., & Nie, J.-B. (2013, March). Trans-cultural ADHD and bioethics: Reformulating a dichotomized debate. Verbal presentation at the Symposium on Comparative and Cross-Cultural Bioethics, Dunedin, New Zealand.
2012
Journal - Research Other
Harland, T., Pickering, N., & Anderson, L. (2012). Valuing teaching and teaching values. Journal of Primary Health Care, 4(4), 346-348.
Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles
Pickering, N., & Anderson, L. (2012). Recruitment of patients for research from among a clinician's own patient group. HRC Ethics Notes, (December), 1.
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Pickering, N. (2012, December). Types not definitions: Whewell's 'Roschian' approach to concepts. Verbal presentation at the New Zealand Australasian Association of Philosophy (AAP) Conference, Wellington, New Zealand.
Pickering, N., & Nie, J.-B. (2012, July). ADHD and Bao-Yu in the classic Chinese novel The Story of the Stone: What are culturally 'relative' and 'universal'? [Panel discussion: Not that straightforward: How should cultural differences be compared?]. Verbal presentation at the 15th International Philosophy and Psychiatry Conference: Culture and Mental Health, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Pickering, N. (2012, July). Insights and metaphors. Verbal presentation at the Creative Arts and Mental Health Seminar Day in association with the 15th International Philosophy and Psychiatry Conference: Culture and Mental Health, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Pickering, N. (2012, January). Ethical problems of posthumous psychiatric diagnosis: The case of John Stuart Mill. Verbal presentation at the New Zealand Bioethics Conference: No Country for Old Men (or Women), Dunedin, New Zealand.
2011
Authored Book - Research
Harland, T., & Pickering, N. (2011). Values in higher education teaching. London, UK: Routledge, 134p.
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Pickering, N. (2011). Prototype resemblance alternatives to classical concepts of illness and disease. Proceedings of the Joint Australasian Association of Philosophy (AAP) and New Zealand Division of the Australasian Association of Philosophy (AAPNZ) Annual Conference. Retrieved from http://www.aap-conferences.org.au/past-conferences/AAP-AAPNZ2011-home/
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Pickering, N. (2011, April). Ethical complications of DNR orders. Verbal presentation at the 12th Annual Medical Law Conference, Wellington, New Zealand.
2010
Journal - Research Article
Anderson, L. C., & Pickering, N. J. (2010). The student code: Ethical and professional expectations of medical students at the University of Otago. New Zealand Medical Journal, 123(1318). Retrieved from http://journal.nzma.org.nz/journal/123-1318/4216/content.pdf
Pickering, N. (2010). Who's a quack? Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 7(1), 43-52. doi: 10.1007/s11673-010-9211-0
Harland, T., Tidswell, T., Everett, D., Hale, L., & Pickering, N. (2010). Neoliberalism and the academic as critic and conscience of society. Teaching in Higher Education, 15(1), 85-96. doi: 10.1080/13562510903487917
Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles
Pickering, N. (2010). Inducements, autonomy and justice. HRC Ethics Notes, (April), 1,3. Retrieved from http://www.hrc.govt.nz/assets/pdfs/publications/Ethics%20Notes%20Mar10.pdf
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Pickering, N. (2010). Disorders of the soul. Proceedings of the General Practice Symposium: Controversies in Healthcare: Mental Health: Are We on the Right Track? Retrieved from http://www.events4you.co.nz/GP2010/programme.html
Pickering, N. (2010). Consent to change? Tissue banking research and approaches to consent. Proceedings of the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law Conference. Retrieved from http://www.plevin.com.au/aabhl2010/
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Pickering, N. (2010, September). Disorders of the soul. Keynote presentation at the General Practice Symposium: Controversies in Healthcare: Mental health: Are We on the Right Track? Dunedin, New Zealand.
Pickering, N. (2010, June). Situated knowledge and mental health. Verbal presentation at the 13th International Conference of the International Network for Philosophy and Psychiatry (INPP): Real People: The Self in Mental Health and Social Care, Manchester, UK.
Pickering, N. (2010, January). Necessary restraint? Verbal presentation at the New Zealand Bioethics Conference: Ethics After Harm, Dunedin, New Zealand.
Reid, S., Morgan-Lynch, S., Thomas, C., & Pickering, N. (2010, January). Databases and data sharing in research practice [Workshop]. Verbal presentation at the New Zealand Bioethics Conference: Ethics After Harm, Dunedin, New Zealand.
2009
Journal - Research Other
Pickering, N. (2009). Absence of significant dissent should be sufficient for deceased organ procurement in New Zealand. Australian & New Zealand Journal of Public Health, 33(5), 454-456. doi: 10.1111/j.1753-6405.2009.00428.x
Conference Contribution - Verbal presentation and other Conference outputs
Pickering, N. (2009, October). Are mental illnesses illnesses in a secondary sense? Verbal presentation at the 12th International Conference for Philosophy & Psychiatry, Lisbon, Portugal.
Pickering, N., Barber, A., McEwan, C., & Naden, R. (2009, July). The future of fairness? Ethics in the New Zealand elective surgery prioritisation system [Workshop]. Verbal presentation at the Australasian Bioethics and Health Law Conference: Future Offers, Future Threats, Queenstown, New Zealand.
Mullen, R., & Pickering, N. (2009, July). Information or coercion: Should information about the possibility of compulsory treatment be part of the informed consent process for mental health patients? Verbal presentation at the Philosophy, Psychiatry, Psychology Conference, Queenstown, New Zealand.
2008
Journal - Research Article
Anderson, L., & Pickering, N. (2008). Ethical review of physiotherapy research. New Zealand Journal of Physiotherapy, 36(3), 138-143.
Journal - Research Other
Pickering, N. (2008). Take Your Pick. Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology, 15(4), 349-351. doi: 10.1353/ppp.0.0203
Pickering, N. (2008). The art of medicine: The importance of not being complementary [Perspectives]. Lancet, 372, 1874-1875. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(08)61799-7
2006
Authored Book - Research
Pickering, N. (2006). The metaphor of mental illness. Oxford University Press, 194p.
Journal - Research Article
Harland, T., Spronken-Smith, R. A., Dickinson, K. J. M., & Pickering, N. (2006). Out of the ordinary: Recapturing the liberal traditions of a university education through field courses. Teaching in Higher Education, 11(1), 93-106.
2005
Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles
McConnell, D., & Pickering, N. (2005). Clinical practice, science, and the unconscious [Editorial]. Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology, 12(1), 1-7.
2004
Authored Book - Other
Brenner, B., Gillies, J., & Pickering, N. (2004). The ethics of health informatics. Auckland, New Zealand: Mediflex Press, 174p.
Chapter in Book - Research
Pickering, N. (2004). The Quantum Booster and medical orthodoxy. In K. Dew & R. Fitzgerald (Eds.), Challenging science: Issues for New Zealand society in the 21st century. (pp. 167-186). Palmerston North, New Zealand: Dunmore Press.
Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles
Pickering, N. (2004). New developments: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry. New Zealand Bioethics Journal, 5(2), 4-5.
Pickering, N., & Anderson, L. (2004). The importance of ethical review in midwifery research. New Zealand College of Midwives Journal, 30, 15-16.
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Harland, T., & Pickering, N. (2004). Teaching students values. Proceedings of the Tertiary Education Research in New Zealand Conference. Dunedin, New Zealand: HEDC, University of Otago. Retrieved from http://hedc.otago.ac.nz/ternz/2004/abstracts/abstracts.asp
2003
Journal - Research Article
Lewis, G., & Pickering, N. (2003). Māori spiritual beliefs and attitudes towards organ donation. New Zealand Bioethics Journal, 4(1), 31-35.
Pickering, N. (2003). The likeness argument and the reality of mental illness. Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology, 10(3), 243-254.
Journal - Research Other
Pickering, N. (2003). The likeness argument: Reminders, roles and reasons for use [Response to Tyreman, Gipps, Loughlin and Mullen commentaries on 'The likeness argument and the reality of mental illness']. Philosophy, Psychiatry & Psychology, 10(3), 273-275.
Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles
Pickering, N. (2003). Indigenous peoples and medical research [Editorial]. New Zealand Bioethics Journal, 4(1), 2.
Pickering, N. (2003). From the editor's desk [Editorial]. New Zealand Bioethics Journal, 4(3), 2-3.
Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract
Harland, T., Pickering, N., & McLaughlin, M. (2003). Stories of value: Researching values through narrative enquiry. Proceedings of the Conference of Tertiary Education Research in New Zealand. Dunedin, New Zealand: University of Otago. Retrieved from http://hedc.otago.ac.nz/ternz/2003/index.html
2002
Journal - Research Article
Pickering, N. (2002). Bioethics and health law in New Zealand: Bioethics commentary. New Zealand Bioethics Journal, 3(1), 10-13.
Pickering, N. (2002). Commentary on : Depressive illness delayed Hamlet's revenge : A B Shaw. Medical Humanities, 28(2), 94-96.
Journal - Professional & Other Non-Research Articles
Pickering, N., Anderson, L. C., & Legge, M. (2002). Ethical issues in research, part II: Ethical questions raised by new cell technology. Next Wave, 15 November. Retrieved from https://www.science.org/content/article/ethical-issues-research-part-ii-ethical-questions-raised-new-cell-technology
2001
Chapter in Book - Research
Pickering, N. J. (2001). Health experimentation: Can (scientifically) good research be (ethically) bad research? In M. Tollich (Ed.), Research Ethics in Aotearoa New Zealand Concepts, Practice, Critique. (pp. 65-76). Auckland: Pearson Education New Zealand Limited.
2000
Journal - Research Article
Pickering, N. (2000). The use of poetry in health care ethics education. Medical Humanities, 26(1), 31-36.
1999
Journal - Research Article
Pickering, N. (1999). Metaphors and Models in Medicine. Theoretical Medicine & Bioethics, 20(4), 361-375.
1998
Chapter in Book - Research
Pickering, N. (1998). General principles and particular cases. In H. M. Evans (Ed.), Critical principles and particular cases. (pp. 197-208). Connecticut: JAI Press.
Journal - Research Article
Pickering, N. (1998). Imaginary restrictions. Journal of Medical Ethics, 24(3), 171-175.
Commissioned Report for External Body
Sullivan, S., & Pickering, N. (1998). Patient and carer involvement in clinical decision making: A review of the literature to August 1997. Commissioned by Clinical Effectiveness Initiative for Wales. Landough: NHS Wales Clinical Effectivess Support unit.