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In Episode #7, Dr. Neo Han Yee (Senior Consultant and Head of the Department of Palliative Medicine at Tan Tock Seng Hospital) discusses his experience, learnings, and philosophies on palliative care and end-of-life practices. Han Yee answers questions about the meaning of death and life, whether suffering is valuable, the importance of intentionality in palliative care, and how medicine ought to be better prepared to provide palliative care across the board.

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Episode #6 explores with Dr. Kathryn Muysken (Research Fellow, Centre for Biomedical Ethics) the ethics of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM). Kathryn shares her expertise on what counts as TCM, the importance and humanity of TCM as distinct from Western medicine, whether the inexplicability of TCM is ethically problematic for patient autonomy and consent, and the vulnerability of humans whilst eating mala hotpot.

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In Episode #5 of CBmE&U, Professor Simon Chesterman (David Marshall Professor and Vice Provost (Educational Innovation) at the National University of Singapore) chats with Sinead and James about the black-box problem with AI. Simon answers questions like, should we use beneficial AI even if we do not know how it made a decision? Who should be responsible if we do not know what went wrong? Should we put computers and pigs in prison if they do harmful things and should we say please and thank you to Siri?

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