Self-isolation, lock-downs, economic chaos and closed borders: responses to today\u2019s COVID-19 pandemic have their roots in history. In the past, there has also been panic-buying, attempted flight, fake news, quack remedies, beleaguered health authorities and a race for vaccines \u2013 all in the face of millions of deaths.
A team of medical research and bioethics experts at Oxford University are supporting several European governments to explore the feasibility of a coronavirus mobile app for instant contact tracing. If rapidly and widely deployed, the infectious disease experts believe such an app could significantly help to contain the spread of coronavirus.
Governments, funders, and research bodies must take action to ensure that research is undertaken ethically during global health emergencies, says a new report from the Nuffield Council on Bioethics.
NEUROSEC (Neuroscience, Ethics and Society) launches bioethics game about digital phenotyping and mental health. 'Tracing Tomorrow' is a digital game prototype which investigates young people's values and preferences in the context of digital phenotyping for mental health in schools.
In December 2019, BeGOOD post-doc Dr Gabriela Pavarini led a course \u2018Moralidade e emo\u00e7\u00f5es\u2019 (Morality and Emotions) for post-graduate students at the Universidade Federal de S\u00e3o Carlos. Here, one of the students, Ramon Marin, gives a brief account of the course.
Dr Stephanie Johnson explores the history and ethics of facial recognition technology together with Dr Roderick Bailey, Dr Taline Garibian and Dr Nina Hallowell.
Congratulations to Julian Savulescu, Becky Brown, Hannah Maslen, Alberto Giubilini and Neil Levy who all feature in Oxford University Press's selection of their 'Best of Philosophy 2019' for their work on responsibility and enhancement.
Should doctors be permitted to refuse performing medical procedures that they believe to be wrong? This is a Philosphy 24/7 podcast with Dominic Wilkinson, Director of Medical Ethics and Professor of Medical Ethics at the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics.
Is it more deserving of praise, when a goal has been achieved under hard strain compared to when it was achieved effortlessly? Hannah Maslen, Deputy Director of the Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics, discusses the link of responsibility and effort in this Philosophy 24/7 podcast.
Whose responsibility is the care of older adults? Is it the family? Is it the state? Is it the older person herself? How should we respond ethically to the needs of an increasing older population with fewer younger people available to deliver care?
Patient autonomy is a core principle of modern medicine. It requires consent from the patient, their parents or their guardian, for any medical procedures to be performed. In this Philosophy 24/7 podcast, Alberto Giubilini from the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities and the Uehiro Centre for Practical ethics discusses whether this principle should always be respected, or if there may be cases of necessary exceptions.
Should obese people be held responsible for being overweight? In this podcast, Becky Brown from the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities discusses the concept of responsibility, and whether it is a useful tool in determining how to distribute health resources.
Following the ruling of the International Association of Athletic Federations (IAAF) in the case of Caster Semenya, Julian Savulescu from the Uehiro Centre for Practical Ethics and the Wellcome Centre for Ethics and Humanities outlines 10 ethical flaws in the decision.
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