Twitter: @BioethicsforPPL • @DevanStahl • @tsgibb
Site: www.bioethicsforthepeople.com
65 episodes
2020 to present
Average episode: 34 minutes
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Categories: Interview-Style • Two Hosts
Podcaster's summary: Bioethics for the People Podcast is for anyone interested in bioethics. Wait, not sure what bioethics is? We are here to explore that question.
| Episodes |
| 2024-Jan-20 • 53 minutes Willowbrook State School Devan and Tyler explore the Willowbrook State School, that stands as a stark symbol of the dark chapters in the history of medical ethics and public health. Willowbrook gained infamy for its association with highly controversial medical experiments conducted on children with intellectual disabilities during the mid-20th century. Led by Dr. Saul Krugman, the Willowbrook studies became emblematic of ethical questions about the treatment of vulnerable populations and the boundaries of medical research. |
| 2024-Jan-04 • 45 minutes Dax Cowart and the Refusal of Medical Treatment | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ... |
| 2023-Dec-14 • 54 minutes Mary and Jodie In this episode, Devan and Tyler discuss the separation surgery of conjoined twins, Mary and Jodie |
| 2023-Dec-07 • 57 minutes The Ashley Treatment In this episode, Devan and Tyler discuss the case of Ashley X. Ashley’s parents and medical team proposed a treatment plan to attenuate Ashley’s growth that drew both praise and criticism from bioethicists. |
| 2023-Nov-30 • 42 minutes Eugenics and Forced Sterilization: The Infamous Case of Buck v. Bell (1927) Tyler and Devan walk through the infamous US Supreme Court Case of Buck v Bell (1927) in this episode. Buck v Bell has a dark legacy that includes forced sterilization, eugenics, disability, and violence against women. |
| 2023-Nov-16 • 40 minutes Henrietta Lacks In this episode, Devan and Tyler discuss the life and afterlife of Henrietta Lacks. Her cells were taken without her consent and used in tens of thousands of research experiments. We discuss what has and hasn’t changed in research ethics. |
| 2023-Nov-09 • 39 minutes Tarasoff and the Duty to Warn We delve into the case of historical context and legal significance of the Tarasoff case |
| 2023-Nov-02 The Case of Baby M | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Devan presents the fascinating and controversial case of 'Baby M' that captivated the world in the l... |
| 2023-Oct-26 • 48 minutes Halloween Special: Placentophagy! Placentophagy! |
| 2023-Oct-19 • 60 minutes Terri Schiavo Tyler and Devan discuss the life and death of Terri Schiavo |
| 2023-Oct-12 • 12 minutes Season 5 Trailer Tyler and Devan discuss their worst reviews, their favorite published sentences, and what's to come on this season of Bioethics for the People |
| 2023-May-04 • 36 minutes Mifepristone and the Judicial Review of Drugs In this mini-sode, Tyler and Devan discuss the dueling court rulings about the drug Mifepristone and the recent decision by the 5th circuit regarding its status |
| 2023-Apr-27 • 26 minutes Psych Boarding in the Emergency Department featuring Dr. Kathryn Redinger |
| 2023-Apr-20 • 25 minutes Palliative Sedation In this mini-sode, Devan and Tyler discuss palliative terminal sedation. What is it, who can get it, and what are the rules around it? |
| 2023-Apr-13 • 21 minutes Breaking up the Organ Monopoly In this mini-sode, Tyler and Devan discuss the Biden administration's proposal to break up UNOS' monopoly on organs for transplantation. |
| 2023-Mar-31 • 19 minutes Who Owns an Embryo? In this mini-sode, Tyler and Devan discuss a recent court case where a judge partially relied on a 19th century law that treated humans as property in order to rule on whether an embryo should be considered property. |
| 2023-Mar-23 • 18 minutes Residency Match Day! In this mini-sode Tyler and Devan discuss match day; the day when medical students if and where they will be spending their residency years. |
| 2023-Mar-16 • 22 minutes Can We Turn Off a Pacemaker? In this mini-sode Tyler and Devan discuss whether it is ethical to turn off a pacemaker that is keep a patient alive. |
| 2023-Mar-09 • 20 minutes Vasectomies for Young Men In this mini-sode Devan and Tyler discuss whether it is ethical to provide vasectomies to 18-year-old men |
| 2023-Mar-02 • 23 minutes Prisoner Organ Donation In this mini-sode Devan and Tyler discuss a proposed bill that would reduce prisoners' sentences if they donate organs or bone marrow. What could go wrong? |
| 2023-Feb-23 • 17 minutes ChatGPT Should Bioethicists be Worried? |
| 2023-Feb-02 • 17 minutes Wrap-Up for Season 4 Devan and Tyler Take-Aways |
| 2023-Jan-26 • 59 minutes Is the Surrogate Trustworthy? Interview with Devan Stahl |
| 2023-Jan-19 • 57 minutes Advance Directives, Surrogate Decision-Maker Disagreement, and Religious Commitments Dr. Birgitta Sujdak Mackiewicz shares a haunting clinical ethics consultation case that raises issues about advance care planning, the preferences of a patient and surrogate decision-makers, and religious commitments. Every patient brings with them a complex set of interests, wishes, values, and commitments. How should healthcare decisions be made when these all come into conflict? | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ... |
| 2023-Jan-12 • 47 minutes A Pregnant Patient, Cancer, and Uncertainty In this Episode, Devan and Tyler discuss a challenging case that centers on a pregnant woman, a suspicion of cancer, and lots of uncertainty about what should be done. Although a common topic of discussion in the classroom, actual cases of maternal-fetal conflicts are relatively unusual. This is a case of a true conflict between a mother's interest and the interests of her unborn child. |
| 2023-Jan-05 • 48 minutes Life Prolonging Treatment after a Suicide Attempt Dr. Barrie Huberman joins Devan and Tyler to discuss a haunting ethics consultation involving a conflict about providing life prolonging medical treatment to a patient who attempted to commit suicide. |
| 2022-Dec-15 • 55 minutes When Healthcare Providers and Patient Families Disagree Kevin Dirksen, Senior Director of the Providence Center for Health Care Ethics, brings a haunting clinical ethics case that highlights the complexity of navigating disagreements between patients, family members, and the healthcare team. |
| 2022-Dec-08 • 39 minutes The Catch-22 of the LVAD and Domestic Abuse with Laura Guidry-Grimes |
| 2022-Dec-01 • 57 minutes Death by Starvation: The Ethics of VSED The Ethics of VSED |
| 2022-Nov-17 • 48 minutes When Your Young Patient Asks to Die Featuring María Susana Ciruzzi |
| 2022-Nov-10 • 52 minutes Overriding Parents for the Sake of the Child Featuring Dr. Jessica Turnbull |
| 2022-Nov-03 • 49 minutes Justifiable Deception Featuring Abe Brummett |
| 2022-Oct-27 • 48 minutes Halloween Special! Featuring Darian Goldin Stahl |
| 2022-Aug-18 • 29 minutes UnConference Episode 3: The Participants Devan and Tyler interview UnConference participants to ask, "What makes a great clinical ethicist?" and "What is the Best part of being a clinical ethicist?" |
| 2022-Aug-18 • 41 minutes UnConference Episode 2: The Presenters Tyler and Devan interview presenters at the UnConference in Clinical Ethics |
| 2022-Aug-18 • 49 minutes UnConference Episode 1: The Planners Tyler and Devan meet with the planners and originators of the UnConferences in Clinical Ethics |
| 2022-Aug-09 • 2 minutes Season 3 Trailer— ”Propelling Clinical Ethics Forward: A Working UnConference” UnConference on Clinical Ethics |
| 2021-Dec-27 • 34 minutes Special Crossover Episode with Bioethics in the Margins Podcast With Bioethics in the Margins Podcast |
| 2021-Dec-09 • 31 minutes Animals, Food, and Bioethics You are what you eat? In this episode, Devan and Tyler talk with Profs Amy Lewis and Enza Rocco about food, animals, food justice, and bioethics. |
| 2021-Dec-02 • 38 minutes Death, Dying, and Hospice in the USA Featuring Harold Braswell |
| 2021-Nov-18 • 27 minutes #FreeBritney, Guardians & Conservators In 2003, Britney Spears, the superstar pop singer, had all of her legal rights taken away from her and given to her father. Over the past decade, a concerted effort has been underway to #FreeBritney. The process that led to her ability to make decisions for herself is called guardianship or conservatorship. In this episode, Devan and Tyler talk through the process, the reasons it is helpful for many individuals and patients, and also the potential issues that arise when someone’s legal power to direct their... |
| 2021-Nov-11 • 35 minutes Religious Exemptions & the COVID19 Vaccine Mandate Featuring Dr. Michael Deem |
| 2021-Nov-04 • 37 minutes COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates, Employee Rights, and Exemptions What is going on with COVID-19 vaccine mandates? Are vaccine mandates legal or ethical? Exemptions— are those allowed and what are they? Professor Elizabeth Pendo, an expert on health law, disability rights, and bioethics at Saint Louis University School of Law, helps us understand what is going on with COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Prof. Pendo talks about the reasons why employers might create a requirement for a vaccine, and also what rights employees have. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |... |
| 2021-Oct-28 • 37 minutes Halloween Special Episode 2.0 Featuring Darian Goldin Stahl |
| 2021-Oct-21 • 36 minutes Solving the Opioid Epidemic With Travis Rieder |
| 2021-Oct-14 • 41 minutes Kidney to Share Featuring Martha Gershun and John Lantos |
| 2021-Oct-12 • 2 minutes Season 2 Trailer We are doing things a little differently this season. Join us to hear about new and exciting topics in bioethics, health care, medicine, and society! As always, we are keeping it conversational, fun, and accessible. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ... |
| 2021-Feb-15 • 24 minutes Hot Take #4: No Cuts, No Butts, No Coconuts! The rollout of the COVID19 vaccine has been…interesting, to say the least. There have been many news stories about folks jumping in line to get their vaccines. Is this ever ethical? What should you do if you are given an opportunity for a vaccine, but don’t feel like you should? Devan and Tyler talk about some of the hiccups in the vaccine roll out. “The Vaccine had to be Used. He Used It. He was Fired,” The New York Times (Feb 10, 2021). “How People are Jumping the COVID-19 Vaccine Line,” NPR News (Feb 9, ... |
| 2021-Jan-14 • 43 minutes Medicine, Professionalism & #MedBikini This episode features Devan’s famous TikTok dancing, and, perhaps more interestingly, Dr. Alyssa Burgart about professionalism, medical education, bioethics, and host of other topics. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | ... |
| 2021-Jan-12 • 20 minutes Hot Take #4: The Vaccine Rollout ...it's not going well |
| 2021-Jan-07 Why is there a philosopher in the hospital? Some folks may be surprised that in many hospitals across the country there are ethicists wandering the halls. In this episode, Tyler and Devan chat with Dr. Virginia Bartlett about clinical ethics. Who are clinical ethicists, what do they do, when would they be involved in the care of patients? | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Read more of Dr. Bartlett’s published work here:“Retrieving the Moral in the Ethics of Maternal-Fetal Surgery: A Respon... |
| 2020-Dec-17 • 42 minutes A Digital Afterlife—What Could Possibly Go Wrong? Cross-over Episode with the Weird Religion podcast |
| 2020-Dec-14 • 25 minutes Hot Take #3: We Have a Vaccine! Now What? In this episode Tyler and Devan discuss plans for distributing the new Covid vaccine and who counts as a “healthcare worker” in phase 1a of the rollout. |
| 2020-Dec-10 • 30 minutes Religion and Bioethics Featuring Patrick Smith |
| 2020-Dec-05 • 19 minutes Hot Take #2: Prenatal Screening, Parenting, and Disability Devan & Tyler talk about the ethical issues raised in an Atlantic Monthly article entitled: “The Last Children of Down syndrome.” |
| 2020-Dec-03 • 23 minutes Disability Bioethics Featuring Joseph Stramando |
| 2020-Nov-21 • 17 minutes Hot Take: Covid-19 Vaccine Challenge Trials In this special episode, Tyler and Devan discuss the basics of human subjects research, including the ethical challenges in Covid-19 challenge trials. |
| 2020-Nov-19 • 30 minutes Bioethics, Social Science & Homelessness Featuring Jason Wasserman |
| 2020-Nov-12 • 32 minutes #BlackBioethics Featuring Dr. Keisha Ray |
| 2020-Nov-05 • 29 minutes Busting Myths in Clinical Ethics Featuring Tom Tomlinson |
| 2020-Oct-29 • 33 minutes Halloween Special! Featuring Darian Goldin Stahl Featuring Darian Goldin Stahl |
| 2020-Oct-22 • 28 minutes Who wouldn’t get a Covid vaccine? Featuring Mark Navin |
| 2020-Oct-15 • 27 minutes Who Belongs in the ASBH? The ASBH featuring Ana Iltis |
| 2020-Oct-08 • 30 minutes Bioethics in a Pandemic Featuring Matthew Wynia |
| 2020-Sep-25 • 2 minutes Season 1 Trailer Season 1 |