Inaugural Professorial Lecture - Professor Angela Ballantyne

Name: Inaugural Professorial Lecture - Professor Angela Ballantyne
Start: 2025-08-26T07:30:00+12:00
Location: Nordmeyer Theatre, University of Otago Wellington, 23a Mein Street, Newtown, Wellington

Schedule

Tue, 26 Aug, 2025 at 07:30 am

UTC+12:00

Location

Nordmeyer Theatre, University of Otago Wellington, 23a Mein Street, Newtown, Wellington | Wellington, WG

Inaugural Professorial Lecture "Making things right". What does it mean to make things right? Medicine and science often turn to bioethics for concrete solutions to ethical challenges. But in reality, there is rarely a single, obvious ‘right’ answer. Human systems are inherently messy, and challenged by a legacy of injustice, unequal distributions of power, and declining social trust. This talk will describe the potential for bioethics to help clarify and navigate ethics dilemmas; pragmatically inching us closer to making things – if not right, then at least – better.
The event will be livestreamed at this link 🔗 https://www.otago.ac.nz/news/events/inaugural-professorial-lecture-professor-angela-ballantyne