by Dr Roland Chia | Jun 20, 2016 | Pulse
June 2016 Pulse Without doubt one of the most fascinating and rapidly developing fields in modern technology is robotics. From surgical robots to DNA nano-robots capable of bipedal motion, the advances in this field in the past decade have been so staggering and...
by Dr Roland Chia | Jun 6, 2016 | Pulse
June 2016 Pulse One of the most disturbing moral fictions in the field of medicine in our time is the so-called neurological criteria for determining death that equate brain death with the death of a human being. This new approach was proposed in 1968 by an Ad Hoc...
by Dr Roland Chia | May 16, 2016 | Pulse
May 2016 Pulse The recently-concluded Synod on the Family (4 – 25 October 2015), a historic meeting of 270 bishops from around the world at the Vatican, published a report on some of the most controversial issues surrounding marriage, divorce and sexuality after three...
by Dr Roland Chia | May 3, 2016 | Pulse
May 2016 Pulse In his fascinating book, Triumph of the City the world-renown economist Edward Glaeser describes the significance of cities in the history of human civilisation with great eloquence and inimitable passion. ‘Cities’, he writes, ‘the dense agglomerations...
by Dr Roland Chia | Apr 18, 2016 | Pulse
April 2016 Pulse In its ‘FAQs on Sexuality’, the Health Promotion Board (HPB) of Singapore seems to base its understanding of human sexuality substantially, although not exclusively, on the studies conducted by Alfred Kinsey in the middle of the last century. HPB not...
by Dr Roland Chia | Apr 4, 2016 | Pulse
April 2016 Pulse In an article entitled, ‘Social Justice in Singapore: Some Personal Reflections’, Tommy Koh argues that Singapore is both a social just and a socially unjust society. For Koh, Singapore is a socially just society because of the following reasons:...
