Ongoing 21-23 November of 2019, the Australasian Association of Bioethics and Health Law / New Zealand Bioethics Conference is spotlighting work by Māori thinkers. IJFAB Blog readers might want to look more closely at their work, which makes important contributions to interdisciplinary bioethics and philosophical bioethics. Short bios including links to a few of their pieces of work are below each of their images.
![A sturdy woman with jaw-length curly brown hair and rectangular black glasses smilles slightly toward the camera. She is wearing a bright red blazer and black shirt. Her necklace appears to be traditional Māori carved bone art.](http://www.ijfab.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/watene-krushil-web1567730282.jpg)
The first highlighted theorist is Dr. Krushil Watene (PhD, MA) of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at Massey University in New Zealand. Her work on how we get a very different result when we put the capability approach into cross-cultural conversation with Māori philosophies is worth taking a look at. The links provided here are only a few of Dr. Watene’s many pieces on the subject of justice, and on how Māori justice concepts can contribute to global justice theorizing. Her work also bears on environmental philosophy which has sweeping implications for health, and she works on Māori and Pasifika health and development policies.
![A man with short-cut hair, dark on top and greying on the sides, smiles widely toward the camera. He is wearing a white button down collared shirt and wearing what appears to be a traditional Māori necklace.](https://i1.wp.com/www.ijfab.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2019/11/MauiHudson-Web1567730220-scaled.jpg?fit=940%2C940)
The second highlighted theorist is Māui Hudson of the faculty of Māori and Indigenous Studies at the University of Waikato in New Zealand. Professor Hudson works on Māori research ethics, traditional medicine, the interface of Māori knowledge-making and western traditions of inquiry, and Māori health, among other topics.