EthicsLab Insights

Voices of the LGBTI and sex work communities have often been systematically silenced and violently oppressed.  This history of gaslight has to stop.

Human rights, ethics and the movement towards a Right to International Solidarity.

Republished: The justifiability and potential risks of cognitive enhancement in academia.

The premature adoption of genome editing technologies like the CRISPR-Cas9 system for clinical applications will more likely lead to biomedical abuses and unintended harms due to the removal of reasonable legal and ethical safeguards.

Republished: Increasing shift to cashless transactions will require more than handouts to those in need.

Republished from The Conversation: Teaching kids to think critically sets them up well for life.

‘You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view… until you climb into his skin and walk around in it.’ — Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird

Webinar recap: Neuroscience is making leaps and bounds globally, but the recent webinar Emerging Frontiers in Neuroethics reminded us that these advancements must benefit everyone, not just a privileged few.

The controversy and conflicting interpretations of the law around human heritable genome editing (HHGE) in South Africa raises significant concerns among the South African legal, ethical, and scientific communities.

Using superficial ethical language to legitimize an agenda — in this case, a liberal one focused on expanding HHGE policy — while concealing a lack of substantive engagement with the invoked principles

Event recap: The EthicsLab hosted a retreat at the Stellenbosch Institute for Advanced Study bringing scholars from Africa and Latin America together to explore the idea of AI as a force of worldmaking.

Republished: A review of Prof Francis Nyamnjoh’s novel "Digital Uprising: The Flower of Freedom in Mimboland", where he masterfully weaves ethics throughout and examines its implications for leadership and technology.

Republished: Silences exist in global health ethics scholarship because of the particular caricatures of Africa that abound in the world, and these silences profoundly impact scholarship in this field.

Photo Essay: The inspiring seed research journey of Southern African rural women as told through a photo-documentary series, Guardians of Seed, Land and Life.

Republished from The Conversation: Help your children navigate the risks, identify the ethical pitfalls and enjoy the benefits of social media platforms and the internet.

HIV PrEP lenacapavir could fundamentally change the trajectory of HIV globally – should stereotypes about African sex workers be rallied to bolster advocacy for a reduction in price?

Amid calls for equity in international research collaborations, Dr Marlyn Faure contends that inequality underwrites the values of clinical trials and international partnerships in Global Health interventions in Africa.

Webinar recap: Yousif Hassan argues that Artificial Intelligence and development in Africa are not just about technology and innovation but also about desirable AI futures and the political imaginations sustaining them.

Clinical Ethics Forum recap: Recent cases brought to the Clinical Ethics Forum reminded me us about the sometimes tricky relationship between the law and morality and the tension between what is the case and what should be the case

Webinar recap: Sebastián Lehuedé critically explores the colonial dimensions of AI in Chile and whether embracing digital sovereignty is a suitable response.

Clinical Ethics Forum recap: First do no harm – the oath may be sacrosanct, but what can clinicians do when reality, and patient rights, get in the way?

Clinical Ethics Forum recap: Is it ever justifiable to administer ARVs to a patient who refuses treatment? What if she’s pregnant?

Book launch: The EthicsLab invited co-editor Jess Auerbach and four contributors of the book for a discussion around the knowledge-power nexus in the biomedical sciences.

EthicsLab Junior Research Fellow explains why ethics matters for physiotherapists working in resource constrained settings.

Webinar recap: A panel discussion exploring the ethical and political significance of concepts such as AI, data and digital colonialism and the relevance of these concepts within the African context and the broader global South.

Webinar Recap: A dynamic panel discussion on ethical questions surrounding race, power, and representation in generative artificial intelligence programs from the diverse fields of global health and fashion.

Republished from UCT News: Researchers applaud UCT’s Office of Research Integrity in leading the drive for the release of the The Cape Town Statement on Fostering Research Integrity through Fairness and Equity.

Webinar recap: Kickstarting conversations about how knowledge from the African humanities could inform the ethical questions posed by new and emerging health technologies.