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Mental Health: Unveiling the Mask, a youth launch of the Lancet Commission on GMH in Kenya

We are excited to announce "Mental Health: Unveiling the Mask", an event organised by the Young Leaders for the Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health and Sustainable Development (LC-GMH) in collaboration with the Medical Psychologists Association of Kenya. This event includes...

Mortimer, R. E., A. McKeown, I. Singh (2019) “Philosophical Bioethics in the Policy Arena: A Response to Open Peer Commentaries on ‘Just Policy?: An ethical analysis of UK early intervention policy documents.’” The American Journal of Bioethics

You can read the full publication here.

Live Event: ‘Should we use AI to help prevent people from getting the blues?’

Come join our Oxford Sparks Facebook Live Event on Monday, January 21st at 3pm. ‘Should we use AI to help prevent people from getting the blues?’ During the event Ilina, Gabi and Jessica will be discussing the ethical dilemma: if there...

Mortimer, R., A. McKeown, and I. Singh (2018). “Just Policy? An ethical analysis of UK early intervention policy.” The American Journal of Bioethics

Abstract Early intervention (EI) aims to identify children or families at risk of poor health, and take preventative measures at an early stage, when intervention is more likely to succeed. EI is concerned with the just distribution of “life chances,”...

Pavarini, G., A. McKeown, and I. Singh (2018). “Smarter than thou, holier than thou: The dynamic interplay between cognitive and moral enhancement.” Frontiers in Pharmacology

Abstract The debate about the desirability of using drugs to enhance human skills encompasses cognitive abilities such as memory and attention, and moral capacities such as emotional empathy and a sense of fairness. These two strands of literature in bioethics...

Pavarini, G. and I. Singh (2018). “Pragmatic Neuroethics: Lived Experiences as a Source of Moral Knowledge.” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

Abstract In this article, we present a pragmatic approach to neuroethics, referring back to John Dewey and his articulation of the “common good” and its discovery through systematic methods. Pragmatic neuroethics bridges philosophy and social sciences and, at a very...

Corsico, P., and I. Singh (2018). “Commentary: On action guidance and good practice in early intervention for psychosis. A response to Bortolotti & Jefferson.” Child and Adolescent Mental Health

Abstract In this response to Bortolotti and Jefferson (2018), we discuss the action‐guidance problem of moral attributes and the risk of superiority illusion in early intervention for psychosis. First, we suggest that guidance documents are not devoid of behavioural recommendations...

Manzini, A., R. Mortimer and I. Singh (2017). “Parental Responsibility in the Context of Neuroscience and Genetics.” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics

Review of Parental Responsibility in the Context of Neuroscience and Genetics, by Kristien Hens, Daniela Cutas, and Dorothee Horstkötter. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International Publishing; 2017. 246 pp. To read the full article, please click here.

Maggio, R. (2017). “The moral economy of early intervention: mothers, children, and the impact of austerity on perinatal mental health.” Medicine Anthropology Theory

Abstract In November 2015, protests erupted in Oxford in response to the decision of the Oxfordshire County Council to cut, among other things, forty-four Children’s Centres and seven Early Intervention Hubs. The debate about whether these centres could be considered...

Undergraduate 3-weeks Summer Placement

Applications are now closed. What is the BeGOOD Undergraduate Summer Placement? This is a 3-weeks summer placement for undergraduates or recently graduated students. You will work full-time at the Neuroscience, Ethics and Society Group at the University of Oxford, which is...