G. Owen Schaefer
@g_owen_schaefer
Bioethicist and Philosopher at the Centre for Biomedical Ethics, National University of Singapore (views are my own, not NUS's). Film critic, in another life.
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G. Owen Schaefer Thanks for your thoughtful comments! You're correct this is part of an ongoing project. Our book, What is a Person? Untapped Insights from Africa will be out in Nov global.oup.com/academic/produ…
Episode 3 of CBmE&U is out! Professor Roger Foo at Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine answers questions from Julian Savulescu and Sinead Prince about Project RESET, personalized medicine, and whether we have free will. Listen online: buzzsprout.com/2384633
Grateful for the plug for RESET. We are still on a drive to enrol participants..... free scans and tests, and a 5yr long follow up with the medical team... on a look out for causes and drivers of early heart and metabolic disease NUS CVD Programme Foo Lab medicine.nus.edu.sg/reset_landing/
📢#Bioethics and the value of #disagreement New paper by michael parker published in J. of Medical Ethics asks what it means to be a bioethicist in a world of intense value conflict and polarisation. #AdversarialCooperation jme.bmj.com/content/early/… Ethox Centre Oxford Ethics + Humanities Practical Ethics
In this episode of the CBmE&U podcast, hosts Sinead Prince, Research Fellow, and Prof Julian Savulescu, Director of the Centre for Biomedical Ethics at NUS Medicine NUS Centre for Biomedical Ethics, engage in a compelling conversation with Prof Roger Foo, Vice-Dean of Research at #NUSMedicine.
The thing about seeing one’s name on the door making it seem more real appears to be true 🥹. I start officially next month and will soon be posting a 3 yr postdoc job opportunity. Moving Experimental Bioethics (bioxphi) to NUS Centre for Biomedical Ethics and getting Oxford-NUS Centre for Neuroethics & Society up and running alongside HOPE!
Our new series, "Stories from the Field", launches with this fascinating discussion between Supriya and Jane on career paths and journeying into empirical bioethics research. Just one of the many new outputs planned by the Australasian Association of Bioethics & Health Law Empirical Ethics stream team!
A report from Nuffield Council on Bioethics shows England’s first Citizens’ Jury on assisted dying has voted in favour of changing the law (CSEP's Alex Mullock UoM Law supported the process). Read more about the jury process and the recommendations they reached: bit.ly/3zdOtb7
Great to work with Nan Liu, Duke-NUS and his Duke-NUS team on this review paper just published in the The Lancet Digital Health. A whole-of-Singapore effort involving many of us working to improve ethical practice in the deployment of #GenAI in health contexts locally.
"Open-access publishing might be better termed open-access reading, because now the publishing part is only open to those who can pay. Publishing in an open-access journal can cost from $1,000 to $10,000 per article." thehastingscenter.org/priced-out-of-… By Craig Klugman