UCF BIOETHICS CLUB
What is Bioethics?
The Bioethics Club is a discussion-based organization. The purpose of this club is to allow students to explore and learn about the connection between ethics and scientific progress. During meetings, students will learn about and analyze various scientific scenarios, articles, hypotheticals, movie clips, etc. and be able to approach them from numerous different perspectives outside of their own. Our goal is to provide students with the ability to understand how morality differs (and why) from person to person, as well as provide them with the necessary processing abilities to navigate such difficult situations that they may encounter in their future careers.
Meet The Executive Board...
We are fully committed to the exploration of topics from multiple points of view and encourage thorough, respectful, and mature discussion at all meetings. Differing opinions are encouraged for the sake of enrichment and experience related to articulating and explaining one's own opinions efficiently. We welcome all students to participate!
Our Story...
Naturally, as the rest of the clubs at UCF did, the Bioethics Club began as an idea – or rather a call to action – that united I, Alexandra Tucker, with Alara Nigro, Jeet Patel, and James Conner in September, 2020. During the fall semester of that year, in the depths of the COVID-19 pandemic when classes were still majorly online, I took Dr. Ann Gleig’s course on Religion & Medicine. Throughout the course, I learned about many important historical events in the field of medicine. I learned about medical experimentation on slaves in the US, clashes between cultural practices and modern medicine, the debates surrounding physician-assisted suicide, religious healing methods, psychedelics, and the poor handling of the AIDS epidemic in the 1980s...
"The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings."
- Albert Schweitzer
