C B m E & U
by Centre for Biomedical Ethics
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Can Nihilism Improve Your Mental Wellbeing?
Can Nihilism Improve Your Mental Wellbeing?
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CBmE&U is a podcast developed by the Centre for Biomedical Ethics in the Yong Loo Lin School of Medicine at National University of Singapore to promote awareness and debate in bioethics. The podcast showcases CBmE researchers interviewing members, visitors, and international guests on various topics in biomedical research and healthcare.
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Episodes
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- Can Nihilism Improve Your Mental Wellbeing? · 45 min · Season 3 Episode 9Send us Fan Mail We spend much of our lives searching for meaning. Some of us look for it at work. Some in our families and friends. Some look for it at an overpriced spiritual…
- Insurance Discrimination: Is it Fair? with Harisan Nasir · 49 min · Season 3 Episode 8Send us Fan Mail In some insurance scheme, you might be required to pay more because you are more prone to disability. In another, you may have to pay more because you're a woman…
- Genomic Newborn Screening: Where less really is sometimes more with Ainsley Newson · 55 min · Season 3 Episode 7Send us Fan Mail Did you know that genomic sequencing can now screen newborns for hundreds of rare conditions right at birth? That looking too closely at our DNA might actually…
- The Hidden Side of Birth: Injury, Trauma, and PTSD with Angela Ballantyne · 48 minSend us Fan Mail Did you know that over 80% of people who give birth experience an injury? That anywhere between 30 and 50% of people who give birth find it traumatic? And that…
- Brains in Jars with Insoo Hyun · 56 min · Season 3 Episode 5Send us Fan Mail Could a blob of cells in a petri dish one day think? Feel? Have rights? In this episode, Professor Insoo Hyun (Harvard Medical School, one of the world's leading…
- To smoke or to vape? With Johannes Kniess · 54 min · Season 3 Episode 4Send us Fan Mail In this episode, guest-host Kat Muyskens and Sinead chat with Dr. Johannes Kniess from Newcastle University (UK) about what governments are legitimately allowed…
- Feminist Science: Wait what? with Deboleena Roy · 46 min · Season 3 Episode 3Send us Fan Mail Is feminist science more than just having more women in STEM? Is science itself capable of being a form of feminism? Have you ever wondered whether there's more…
- Therabot versus a Tic Tac with Charlotte Blease · 52 min · Season 3 Episode 2Send us Fan Mail In this episode of CBmE & U, Associate Professor Charlotte Blease (Uppsala University) talks about the placebo process for validating and testing mental health…
- Losing and Supporting Capacity with Emily Largent · 41 min · Season 3 Episode 1Send us Fan Mail Welcome back to CBme&U! For our first episode of 2026, and the new season 3, we have Assistant Professor Emily Largent (University of Pennsylvania), a bioethics…
- Who are your parents? with Hilary Bowman-Smart · 47 min · Season 2 Episode 17Send us Fan Mail The New York Times recently published an article on a woman who is fighting for custody and legal parenthood of twin children that she is not genetically related…
- The Ethics of Making Babies the Modern Way with I. Glenn Cohen · 45 min · Season 2 Episode 16Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Prof. I. Glenn Cohen (Harvard University) gives us his world leading answers to some of the stickiest issues in modern reproductive ethics: What…
- Dementia and Desires: Which you is the real you? with Rand Hirmiz · 37 min · Season 2 Episode 15Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Dr. Rand Hirmiz (Singapore Management University) discusses how people with dementia can sometimes drastically change their preferences…
- Can AI make better doctors? with Walter Sinnott-Armstrong · 44 min · Season 2 Episode 14Send us Fan Mail If you were a doctor, woken in the middle of the night to decide which patient should get the only available liver, would you be comfortable making that decision…
- Should we trust medicine at all? with Jacob Stegenga · 46 min · Season 2 Episode 13Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Prof. Jacob Stegenga (Nanyang Technological University), author of the book, Medical Nihilism, chats with us why we should all be more sceptical…
- Sticky & Icky: Trusting Your Moral Gut with Brandon Yip · 45 min · Season 2 Episode 12Send us Fan Mail In this episode, James and Sinead ask Dr. Brandon Yip (Singapore Management University) whether the instinctive 'yuck' that we respond to some things is a…
- Happiness and Meaning: Can you have both? with Matthew Hammerton · 46 min · Season 2 Episode 11Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Dr. Matthew Hammerton (Singapore Management University) presents the ideas of happiness, well-being, and the meaningful life, to answer what it…
- Healthcare for All? with Larry Temkin · 59 min · Season 2 Episode 10Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Professor Larry Temkin (Rutgers University) proposes the initially controversial idea that expecting all countries to provide universal…
- TCM Again? Can! with Michael Stanley-Baker · 48 min · Season 2 Episode 9Send us Fan Mail Why do people judge getting Traditional Chinese Medicine as pointless, or even as bad? Is your grief related to your lungs? In this episode, Dr. Michael…
- Discrimination Against Men?? with David Benatar · 58 min · Season 2 Episode 8Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Kat and James interview world famous David Benatar on his controversial work, 'The Second Sexism', a book that argues that we need to understand…
- Wrongfully Alive with Sreenivasan Chambers LLC · 48 min · Season 2 Episode 7Send us Fan Mail Should children be able to sue their birth parent? Is not being genetically related to your parents really that bad? And is every child always a blessing? In…
