Student thought leadership at the intersection between Science, Society, and Policy.
By Glenda Xu. Covid-19 is the defining health crisis of our time. In the US, a formidable - and rapidly deteriorating - challenge lies in the mass populations incarcerated in correctional facilities. In UCL Bioethics and Medical Law Society’s most recent event, Dr Meghan Novisky, assistant professor of Criminology at Cleveland State University, explores these … Continue reading Mass Incarceration, Public Health, and COVID-19 in the US
By Celia Esteban Serna. On 17th December, Spanish Lawmakers passed a bill allowing euthanasia and assisted suicide. An appeal to moral philosophy to evaluate the ethics of euthanasia is beyond the scope of this article. Instead, we do so by measuring its potential impact on psychiatric clinical practice. Some of the requirements for individuals to … Continue reading Euthanasia and Psychiatric Patients – A Curse in Disguise?
By Blanca Sanz-Magallón. On November 23rd, we were honoured to host Dr. Gabriela Pavarini, from the Neuroscience, Ethics, and Society Research Group (NEUROSEC) at the University of Oxford. The event was a unique opportunity to discuss the role young people play in the development of mental health interventions and policy, and how the cutting-edge research … Continue reading Young People and Ethical Mental Health Interventions
By Zara Hamzah Sendut. A Brief Background on Cloning Following the first successful cloning of Dolly the Sheep in 1996, serious ethical concerns have been raised regarding the future possibility of human reproductive cloning. In 2005, the United Nations adopted its Declaration on Human Cloning to inhibit further pursuit of its development, briefly stating that … Continue reading The Ethics of Human Cloning
By Glenda Xu. In celebration of Black History Month, UCL Bioethics and Medical Law society hosted an event led by the prestigious Dr Reuben Warren – Professor of Bioethics and Director of the National Center for Bioethics in Research and Health, Tuskegee, Alabama. This event resurfaced many of the atrocious violations that took place against … Continue reading The Dark Side of The History of Health
