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Health Ethics Podcast
The Health Ethics Podcast (formerly The COVID Ethics Series Podcast) relies on the idea that challenging ethical issues are best addressed by many folks, from diverse backgrounds, practically reasoning together. Each week Professor Bryan Pilkington is joined by leading experts from medicine, nursing, and the health sciences, as well as political theorists, economists, ethicists, philosophers and lawyers for a conversation about ethical issues.
Episodes
- Health Ethics Podcast
Shared Humanity, Better Care: Solidarity in Oncology
In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Dr. Nico Nortjé about the ethical challenges of cancer care. They explore how solidarity and cultural…
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Of Scapegoats & Monday Morning Quarterbacks: Art Caplan on Science, Politics and Dr. Anthony Fauci
In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Dr. Arthur Caplan about the controversy surrounding Dr. Anthony Fauci and argues that political scapegoating…
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When AI and Doctors Disagree: Rethinking Medical Decision-Making
In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Dr. Giorgia Pozzi about the ethical and epistemological challenges that arise when AI systems and human…
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Against AI Exceptionalism: Healthcare for the Common Good
In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with philosopher, Dr. Alex John London, focusing on research ethics, the common good, and the ethical evaluation…
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First, Organize: Physicians, Public Health, and the Power of Collective Action
In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Dr. Jonathan Shaffer, who argues that physicians’ responsibilities extend beyond individual patient care to…
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Beyond “Checkbox” Ethics: What Really Matters in Global Research
Link to Show Notes Guest: Joseph Ali, JD Associate Director for Global Programs, Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics & Associate Professor, Department…
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Beyond Snapshots: Studying Medical Training Through Time
In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Dr. Dorene Balmer about her book, The Long Arc of Training: Six Stories of Aspiring Doctors, which emerged…
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Artificial Intelligence & the Social Role of Medicine Redefined
In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Dr. John Lantos about how artificial intelligence is reshaping medicine, particularly the doctor–patient…
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Asking for Aid: ICE, Advocacy, and Bioethics
In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Dr. Arthur Caplan on his effort to urge the American and International Red Cross to investigate alleged human…
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Vaccines now: Politicians, science, and a new public health reality
A discussion on recent changes in U.S. vaccine policy, the impact on pediatric practice, and the ethical challenges created by shifting public health…
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Why Accreditation Matters: Safeguarding Quality in Medical Education
In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Dr. Veronica Catanese about accreditation in medical education and its role in ensuring quality standards for…
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Art & the opposing viewpoint: Towards logical reasoning and civil discourse
In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Kaitlin Puccio, JD, MS about how discussion of current emotionally-charged social issues can benefit from…
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Academic Chutes and Ladders: Differential Attainment in Medical Education
In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Dr. Gabrielle Finn on differential attainment, which refers to the variation in academic attainment between…
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Healthcare Sustainability: Aligning Health and Environmental Ethics
In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Kyle Tafuri, a healthcare sustainability expert, about the importance of aligning environmental…
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Beyond the Exam Room: Physicians as Advocates
In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Dr. Lawrence Rosen about how advocacy extends beyond individual patient care to include public health, policy…
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Does science have a PR Problem? Information, Misinformation, and the Politics of Medicine
In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Dr. Arthur Caplan about on the evolution of bioethics from an academic niche to a more public-facing…
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The Bioethics of "Baby Boxes"
In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Dr. Lori Bruce on the ethical concerns surrounding baby boxes—devices used for the anonymous surrender of…
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The Canary in the Coal Mine: Infectious Disease, Vaccine Hesitancy, and What We Owe Each Other
In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Dr. Jeffrey Boscamp about the decline in public trust in science, particularly around vaccines, and notes…
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Neurodiversity: What it is and What Happens Now
In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Nanette Elster, JD, MPH and Kayhan Parsi, JD, PhD about the need for both legal and societal frameworks to…
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The Ongoing U.S. Struggle with Maternal Mortality
In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington talks to Dr. James O’Brien about his co-authored article in American Journal of Perinatology. O'Brien JA, Lewkowitz AK…
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Care of the Whole Person: The role of Hospital Chaplains
In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington talks to Dr. Robert Klitzman about his book, Doctor, Will You Pray for Me?: Medicine, Chaplains, and Healing the Whole…
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Am I My Students’ Nurse?
In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington talks to Dr. Paul Snelling, Principal Lecturer in Adult Nursing at University of Worcester, about his 2024 Nursing Ethics…
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A Matter of Trust (with Guest Dr. Thomas Nasca)
In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington talks to Dr. Thomas Nasca, ACGME President and Chief Executive Officer, about the crucial role of trust in medicine…
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The Bioethics of Environmental Injustice
In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington talks to Dr. Keisha Ray about her 2024 co-authored American Journal of Bioethics article, “The Bioethics of Environmental…
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The Occasional Human Sacrifice: A Conversation with Carl Elliott
In this episdoe, Bryan Pilkington, PhD speaks to Carl Elliott, MD, PhD, professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota. His latest…
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How Will This Benefit Patients? AI Integration into Clinical Decision Making
In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Charles E. Binkley, MD. Charles Binkley is a liver and pancreas surgeon, bioethicist, Director of Bioethics…
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Spheres of Morality: The Ethical Codes of the Medical Profession
In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks to Dr. Samuel Doernberg and Dr. Robert Truog about their recent paper in the American Journal of Bioethics…
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Academic Freedom in Medicine: Ethics and the Training of Sovereign Professionals
In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks to Dr. David J. Skorton about academic freedom. David J. Skorton, MD, is president and CEO of the AAMC…
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Do healthcare institutions have a conscience?
In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks to Dr. Jason Adam Wasserman about Institutional Conscience. His new article is: Wasserman JA, Brummett AL, Navin…
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Societal Informed Consent in the Age of AI
If we demand informed consent for individuals, why don't we demand it for all of society? In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks to Dr. Brian Patrick…
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"Trust Me, I'm a Clinician": Medical Expertise, Trust, and the Patient Experience
In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks to Dr. Jamie Carlin Watson, clinical ethicist for the Cleveland Clinic Center for Bioethics. Watson is the author…
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Health Equity is the Goal, Health Justice is the Path
In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks to Dr. Philip Alberti, Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) senior director of health equity research…
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A Sociologist and a Philosopher Talk Medical Education
In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks to Dr. Frederic W. Hafferty, professor of medical education at the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minnesota. He is the…
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The Philosophy of Disability: Equity, Justice and Health
In this episode of the COVID Ethics Series Podcast, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Dr. Joel Reynolds, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Disability…
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Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Clinical Decision Making: A Surgeon's perspective
In this episode of the COVID Ethics Series Podcast, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Charles Binkley, M.D., FACS, HEC-C, the director of Bioethics for the…
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How We Could End the Pandemic
In this episode of the COVID Ethics Series Podcast, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Dr. Eli Adashi. Dr. Adashi served as the Fifth Dean of Medicine and…
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Physicians' Stress & Burnout During the COVID-19 Pandemic
In this episode of the COVID Ethics Series Podcast, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks to bioethicist, Dr. Nancy Berlinger. Berlinger is a Research Scholar at The…
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Universal Healthcare: On Human Dignity, Global Co-Operation, and Financial Sustainability
In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Rui Nunes, professor of bioethics at the Faculty of Medicine of the University of Porto. Professor Nunes is…
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COVID's "politicization tragedy" and physician obligations to public health
In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Scott Schweikart, JD, MBE, Senior Research Associate at the American Medical Association and legal editor of…
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Conscience, Vaccines, and the Obligations of Community
In Conscience, Vaccines, and the Obligations of Community, a panel of experts discusses respect for individual conscience and decision making and how to…
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Listening Beyond the Obvious: Delivering Better Care with Narrative Medicine
In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Cindy Smalletz on her work in narrative medicine, and how narrative medicine has impacted her practice of…
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Telling the Stories Behind COVID: Narrative & Graphic Medicine
As COVID-19 continues to affect communities across the globe, we turn to the stories and depictions – narrative and graphic – behind COVID with the hope of…
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Systemic Racism and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Dr. Kirk A Johnson on the impact COVID has had on American understanding of systemic racism, as well as the…
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Bioethics & the Reprocessing and Reuse of Medical Equipment
The questions relating to medical equipment disposal and decommissioning are many and varied. In this episode, host Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Jennifer…
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Long-Term Care, Nursing, and COVID-19 Safety
In this episode, Host Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks to Dr. Sherry Greenberg, Associate Professor at Seton Hall University College of Nursing and nurse…
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Protecting Mother and Child: COVID19 and Pregnancy
Dr. Bryan Pilkington in conversation with Mark Fuller Sewell, MD, a specialty care physician board certified in maternal-fetal medicine and obstetrics and…
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Doing What They've Trained to Do: Medical Student Responses to COVID
Featuring Emma Goldberg, author of "Life on the Line: Young Doctors Come of Age in a Pandemic" and writer for The New York Times; Nick Cozzarelli, medical…
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Vulnerable Patients Need Strong Advocates
COVID Ethics Series Podcast host Dr. Bryan Pilkington sits down with Dr. Maryanne Giuliante, Advanced Practice Provider Manager for Memorial Sloan Kettering…
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Social UNdistancing & the Duty to Protect One's Neighbor
Host Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks to Father Colin Kay, Vice President for Mission and Ministry at Seton Hall University, on the concept of "Social…
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Expertise in the Time of COVID: Who has it? Who should have it?
In Expertise in the Time of COVID: Who has it? Who should have it?, a panel of experts discusses the roles that authority, information literacy, and reasoning…
Health Ethics PodcastOn Lonely Deaths: COVID, Community, & the Lost Art of Dying Well
On Lonely Deaths: COVID, Community, & the Lost Art of Dying Well with Dr. Lydia Dugdale was recorded live on Thursday, April 29. The event's co-sponsors were…
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Contact Tracing and the Public's Health
In this episode of the COVID Ethics Series Podcast, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Denice Ochola, MPH, a Contact Tracer with NYC Health + Hospitals.
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It isn't COVID that's racist: Inequities in healthcare in the time of COVID-19
In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Dr. Tade Ayeni, the Director of Diversity and Equity at Hackensack School of Medicine.
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COVID-19 Challenge Trials
In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington discusses ethical issues associated with COVID-19 challenge trials with Seton Hall Law Professor Carl Coleman.
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Voting for Health: The Entwined Paths of Medicine and Politics
Voting for Health: The Entwined Paths of Healthcare and Politics Recorded October 29, 2020 at 4:00pm EST. COVID-19 impacts not only the health of members of…
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Taking Seriously the Duty to Plan: The Future of Health, Education, Sports, and Politics After COVID
COVID-19 has impacted societies in various ways and laid bare failures of institutions in many sectors to plan for challenging eventualities. In this session…
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Children: Education and Safety in the Time of COVID
COVID-19 has impacted children in various ways and divergent accounts of its impact have led to confusion, as well as differing policy recommendations and…
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Community Ethics During COVID: Student Voices
As COVID-19 continues to affect communities across the globe, plans and precautions for returning to semblances of normalcy vary. In “Community Ethics During…
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Unmasking Ethical Foundation in the Time of COVID: What We Owe Each Other
As COVID-19 continues to affect communities across the globe, plans and precautions for returning to semblances of normalcy vary. In “Unmasking Ethical…