ABSTRACT
This chapter examines Alastair V. Campbell’s influence on the teaching of ethics to medical undergraduates at the University of Otago. It focuses on experience with the Master’s degree in Bioethics and Health Law that Campbell played a key role in introducing. Campbell first visited the Otago Medical School in 1985 while on a Thomas Burns Memorial Lectureship to give a series of lectures at the Theological Hall, Knox College. Taking advantage of the fact that Campbell happened to be in Dunedin in 1985, Jones, who was Professor of Anatomy, invited Campbell to visit the medical school. The faculty board curriculum committee working party report was working its way ‘through numerous committees’, as Jones had predicted, when Campbell returned to New Zealand in September 1986 to take up a 1-year visiting professorship. Campbell’s tasks and achievements during his tenure as director of the BRC were many and various.
