Emma Nance, postgraduate student on the LLM in Medical Law and Ethics at Edinburgh University School of Law, shares her thoughts and personal experience of racism in the context of Covid-19.

In Episode 12 ‘Vulnerability Part 5’ Professor Samia Hurst discusses her conception of vulnerability and what it can tell us about the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.
Ayesha Ahmad, drawing on her experience as an expert witness in asylum seeker cases, discusses the conflict between the trauma that asylum seekers embody, live, and express and the way that such stories are received by the paradigms of psychiatry and law.
Emma Nance, postgraduate student on the LLM in Medical Law and Ethics at Edinburgh University School of Law, shares her thoughts and personal experience of racism in the context of Covid-19.
The possibility of using immunity certifications as a new way of monitoring and managing the spread of Covid-19 has recently garnered a lot of attention. Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra recently spoke at Nuffield’s ‘Ethical implications of antibody testing and “immunity certification”’ webinar about how such policies might exacerbate existing inequalities. Find out more and watch the webinar (link included) here.
In our fourth animation, Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra discusses the terms ’emergency’, ‘disasters’, and ‘crisis’, their usage, and their ethical implications.
Peter West-Oram discusses how the UK government has failed to act in solidarity with its citizens during the Covid-19 outbreak.
Emma Nance, postgraduate student on the LLM in Medical Law and Ethics at Edinburgh University School of Law, shares her thoughts and personal experience of racism in the context of Covid-19.
In her second post on our website, Radha Adhikari discusses the inequities that the BAME health workforce faces in the Covid-19 outbreak and contextualises this within the historical and ongoing disadvantages this group experiences in the UK.
In Episode 12 ‘Vulnerability Part 5’ Professor Samia Hurst discusses her conception of vulnerability and what it can tell us about the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic.