[SydPhil] Author-Meets-Critics Book Workshop: Public Health Virtue Ethics

[Timothy Smartt]

The Institute for Ethics & Society at The University of Notre Dame Australia and the ACU Plunkett Centre for Ethics are pleased to co-host an Author-Meets-Critics Book Workshop on Kathryn MacKay’s new book Public Health Virtue Ethics: Institutions, Structures, and Political Virtue for the Good Society.

The workshop will be held in person on ACU’s North Sydney campus, but remote participation is also available.

Abstract: Ethical analyses of public health policies and practices have been mostly conducted in terms of examining the best consequences or weighing outcomes against liberty, autonomy, justice and harm. Analyses conducted only in these terms leave a huge range of moral issues under-examined. Public Health Virtue Ethics: Institutions, Structures, and Political Virtue for the Good Society by Kathryn MacKay (Routledge 2026) argues that virtue ethics should be incorporated into public health ethics. It provides the theoretical foundations for a virtue ethics that is applicable to public health, as well as to political institutions more broadly.

This workshop brings together the book’s author Dr Kathryn MacKay with three respondents to discuss what it means for public health to do its work excellently.

SPEAKERS

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Kathryn MacKay (University of Sydney)
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Xavier Symons (Australian Catholic University)
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Justin Oakley (Monash University)
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Megan Best (The University of Notre Dame Australia)

All welcome, but registration is essential.

Date: Wednesday 22 April
Time: 2:00pm - 4:30pm
Location: ACU’s North Sydney Campus (and online)
Book details: https://url.au.m.mimecastprotect.com/s/xdUECP7LAXfoooypvIzfmTxHtT_?domain=routledge.com

To register, please contact: Tim Smartt (timothy.smartt at nd.edu.au<mailto:timothy.smartt at nd.edu.au>).

Final room details (and/or online participation links) will be provided upon registration.


Dr Tim Smartt
Senior Research Fellow
Institute for Ethics & Society
University of Notre Dame Australia, Sydney

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