Current Volume

Volume XVI, 2025

Editor-in-Chief: Diya M Nathan. Editors: Tejaswini Venkat, Justin Lee, Helena Tan, Matthew Jones, Daksha Nair, Jack Lau

Our sixteenth edition aims to both critically assess what is on the horizon of healthcare and properly consider how it exists in the current day. With Tejaswini Venkat’s discussion on the possibility for biomedical moral enhancement, we have a piece that turns to the future and discuss ethical considerations of technology that are in the process of being developed. Similarly, we look at new technology through Justin Lee’s piece on the possibility to heighten health disparities through polygenic embryo screening. And lastly, we bring new perspectives to technology and practices that are standard. In the realm of women’s health, Helena Tan writes about both the benefits and disadvantages of the medicalization of childbirth while Matthew Jones discusses how the absence of standardized anesthetic protocols for IUD insertion is an obstacle in attaining patient centered care. In addition, Daksha Nair analyzes practice of forced medication in psychiatric settings and Jack Lau explores the disadvantages of the current trend in overprescribing antibiotics

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