An expanding vista: bioethics from public health, indigenous and feminist perspectives.

School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW. Paul M McNeill, MA, LLB, PhD, Associate Professor of Ethics and Law in Medicine; and President, 7th World Congress of Bioethics. Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, New York, NY, USA. Ruth Macklin, PhD, Professor of Bioethics. International Programs, The Hastings Center, Garrison, NY, USA. Angela Wasunna, LLM, Research Associate. Faculty of Medicine, Nursing and Health Sciences, Alfred Hospital, Armadale, VIC. Paul A Komesaroff, MB BS, PhD, FRACP, Director, Monash Centre for the Study of Ethics in Medicine and Society. Reprints will not be available from the authors. Correspondence: Associate Professor Paul M McNeill, School of Public Health and Community Medicine, University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW 2052. [email protected] The Medical Journal of Australia ISSN: 0025-729X 4 July 2005 183 1 8-9 ©The Medical Journal of Australia 2005 www.mja.com.au Conference Report 550 registered attendees from 35 different countries. The three conferences, running over 8 days, provided the biggest event in bioethics thus far in Australia and the Asia–Pacific region and the breadth and heterogeneity of bioethics. The theme of the Congress — suggested by the w No single voice nor one perspective can claim to represent the whole of bioethics