Thursday, 21st November Australasian Association of Bioethics & Health Law and New Zealand Bioethics Conference

John Broughton, Kaumatua, University of Otago

Bernadette Richards, President, Australasian Association of Bioethics & Health Law

Lynley Anderson, Head of Department, Bioethics Centre, University of Otago

Aaron Hawkins, Mayor of Dunedin

Performance by Kings & Queens High School Kapa Haka Group

• Nuclear Families: mitochondrial replacement techniques and the regulation of parenthood - Catherine Mills

• Legalizing Assisted Death in New Zealand- Learning from the Canadian Experience - Janine Winters
• Cause of death under VADA17: unethical obfuscation or beneficent legal fiction? - Malcolm H Parker
• The limits of autonomy in advanced cancer and palliative care. - Russell J Shute

• Sharing Health-related Data for Precision Medicine: An Exploration of Ethical Concerns in Singapore - Serene AK Ong
• Between the anecdotal and the universal in assessing genomic data sharing practices: a scenario-based methodology for analysing complex landscapes - Rebekah McWhirter
• Law and genomic data sharing: beyond consent - Norah Grewal

• Device Representatives in the Clinic: Help, hindrance or liability? - Bernadette J Richards
• The current legal and clinical framework for treatment of gender diverse youth in Australia - Stephanie Jowett
• My Pain and Suffering is not Negated by My Death - A paper exploring whether a plaintiff’s right to general damages should be preserved after their demise - Janine McIlwraith

• Good people exist: how is that possible? - Mary Butler
• International transfer of health data: individuals’ privacy concerns and the role of the law - Minna Paltiel
• Neuroethics as a guide to ethics - Grant Gillett

• The regulation of Surgical Innovation: A qualitative study - Alice Toms
• The direct-to-consumer market for stem cell-based interventions in Australia: Exploring the experiences of patients left in a regulatory vacuum - Tamra Lysaght
• Max Charlesworth Prize Winner: Isn’t it a woman’s prerogative to change her mind? The ethical issues of requesting medical intervention in labour for which consent had previously been declined - Katie Ben

• Unruly behaviour: the role of the healthcare system - Snita Ahir-Knight
• WORKSHOP (60 minutes):  What is, and isn't, anti-psychiatry -- and why it matters in 2019 - David B Menkes, Vajira Dharmawardene and Jon Jureidini

• Precaution and Benefit in Research involving Implant of Neurodevices - Calvin Ho
• What ethical considerations exist at the intersection between social media, bioethics and research?   - Elizabeth Hill
• No longer merely ‘vulnerable’ participants: a new focus on disability and disabled people in the National Ethics Advisory Committee standards for health and disability research - Hilary j Stace

• “Fair, simple, speedy and efficient”? Barriers to access to justice in the Health and Disability Commissioner’s Complaints Process in New Zealand - Joanna Manning