Blog Posts | Society Of Bioethics & Medicine

Revisiting Past Education Policies, Looking Out for the Future

Written by Raheem Sheikh Edited by Jacquelyn Tang Meet Alena Alena Analeigh Wicker, from Fort Worth, Texas, is not unlike most students....

Fighting Ailments with Custom-Made Living Organs

Written by Jonathan Gao Edited by Raheem Sheikh If you ever baked cookies or cakes, you’re familiar with the process: a simple batter is...

Intergenerational Trauma - Psychosocial and Epigenetic Mechanisms of Risk

Written by: Selma Music Edited by: Anling Chen Intergenerational trauma is the effect that profound traumatic experiences have on future...

The Cost of Commercial Surrogacy: Exploitation and Abuse

Written by Maisha Uddin Edited by Ishraq Nihal In 2016, Bridget was born prematurely, with multiple severe health issues, to a Ukrainian...

Moral Negligence: How Animal Experimentation Runs Rampant

Written by: Ishraq Nihal Edited by: Aisha Abid Many of us regard animal experimentation as a necessary evil. Although it is acknowledged...

COVID Student Impacts & Comebacks

Written by Sanjana Ahmed Edited by Jacquelyn Tang People always herald college to be the most pivotal, and best four years of their...

Waging a War Against Adolescent Mental Health

Written by Jonathan Gao Edited by Jacquelyn Tang As soon as the medical team rushed through the doors, I blurted out what was wrong with...

Can Teens Refuse Chemo?

Written by Pooja Suganthan Edited by Jacquelyn Tang In September 2015, Cassandra Callender, a 17-year-old girl from Connecticut, was...

Cuban Cuts Costs- The Online Pharmacy Changing Medicine

Written by Pooja Suganthan Edited by Elizabeth Badalov “Shark Tank” billionaire Mark Cuban has started a low-cost online pharmacy. The...

A Life Better Lived

Written by Nishanth Araveti Edited by Pooja Suganthan “A man should be mourned at his birth, not at his death” Writing in the 18th...

Feeding Our Children Fast Food Ads

Written by Pooja Suganthan Edited by Elizabeth Badalov TikTok’s biggest star Charli D’Amelio collaborated with Dunkin Donuts to launch...

The Real Impact Being Constantly “Hangry” has on the Development of Societies

Written by Laila Gad Edited by Sanjana Ahmed “You’re not you when you’re hungry,” a phrase well ingrained in our minds after watching...

Medical Mistakes

Written by Aisha Abid Edited by Faith Singh Do physicians have any ethical responsibility to inform patients regarding medical errors?...

The Potential of Pig Hearts to Save Humans

Written by Jonathan Gao Edited by Elizabeth Badalov Picture this: you lie in a small examination room as the physician performs the same...

On the Ethics of Neural Twins

Written by Nishanth Araveti Edited by Jacquelyn Tang First proposed by philosopher Derek Parfit, the Teletransporter Thought Experiment...

Brainwashing as a Political Weapon: The Legacy of MK Ultra

Written by Elizabeth Katanov Edited by Aisha Abid Imagine being induced in a coma for 23 days, electroshocked three times a day, and then...

Subway Chase and Safety

Written by Pooja Suganthan Edited by Kelvin Wu Two weeks ago, I was chased around the Jamaica 179 Street subway station by a man with a...

The Right to Die

Written by Marium Ghobriel Edited by Ishraq Nihal Euthanasia, also known as assisted suicide, is the act of ending the life of someone...

The Uphill Battle of Becoming a Doctor: Social Solitude

Written by Sanjana Ahmed Edited by Lok-Yee Lam As a pre-medical student, I know that most people can recognize that becoming a doctor is...

A Chinese Problem: Fear of Yeet Hay

Written by Christine Kuang Edited by Jacquelyn Tang It's known that parenting is a form of manipulation (Johari Talib & Marmat, 2011)....

Catching Criminals with 23andMe

Written by Pooja Suganthan Edited by Kelvin Wu At-home DNA test kits, like 23andMe and AncestryDNA, have become household names over the...

Is moral bioenhancement really moral?

Written by Marium Ghobriel Edited by Elizabeth Katanov If science was capable of making everyone a morally sound person, what would come...

The “Invisible Minority” in Medicine

Writer by Jonathan Gao Editor by Kelvin Wu When looking at applications for institutional programs that are designed to bolster interest...

The Modern Man and Mental Health: Breaking from Traditional and Toxic Masculinity

Written by: Lok-Yee Lam Edited by: Laila Gad In recognition of National Men’s Health Awareness Month, it is important that we draw...

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