Summer Hiatus & More Resources
We’re taking a brief break in August! Please see the post for resources to keep you busy until then.
» Read moreMonth: July 2020
Recognising Mental Health Vulnerabilities in Conflict for Asylum Seekers: The Case of AS [Safety of Kabul] Afghanistan [2018] UKUT 118 (IAC) – by Ayesha Ahmad
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.
» Read moreJust Emergencies Episode 11: Covid-19 and Political Resistance
In Episode 11 of ‘Just Emergencies’, Meena Krishnamurthy talks about the ongoing anti-racist protests around the world, whether there’s an obligation to participate in them – especially during a worldwide pandemic-, and how they differ politically and philosophically from the anti-Covid-19 protests that have also sprung up.
» Read more‘Kung Flu’: It’s Not Me, It’s You – by Emma Nance
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.
» Read moreJust Emergencies Episode 10: Covid-19: Sociological Reflections on Vulnerability, Gender, and Care
In Episode 10 of Just Emergenices, Dr Verina Wild and Professor Paula-Irene Villa Braslavsky discuss the relationship between ‘Vulnerability, Gender, and Care’ in the context of the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic and through a sociological lens.
» Read moreNuffield Webinar: Ethical implications of antibody testing and ‘immunity certification’
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.
» Read moreBMJ Opinion: The need to unpack vulnerability in a pandemic – by Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra
In her piece for the BMJ, Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra argues that the concept of vulnerability needs to be unpacked in the context of the Covid-19 outbreak. Applying a taxonomy of vulnerability, she discusses how different groups become and are made vulnerable during this worldwide pandemic.
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