It isn’t every day that you get to spend a winter evening huddled in a distinguished, old anatomy lecture theatre to listen to some of your favourite topics—social justice, women’s health, India and assisted reproduction—in a captivating talk, followed by a warm, informal exchange over a glass of wine. Yet, last Thursday, was one such evening for me, when the Mason Institute had the pleasure of hosting its J Kenyon Mason Annual Lecture with visiting speaker Professor Françoise Baylis, professor and Canada Research Chair in Bioethics and Philosophy at Dalhousie University. If the steep benches of the University’s Anatomical Museum were enough to give you a head rush, the implications of Prof Baylis’s talk soon grounded you to a rather sombre reality.
