Kirk and Amelia continue our discussion of Epistemic Injustice with Ryan Felder, PhD. Ryan is a Clinical Ethics Fellow at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics. He earned his PhD in philosophy from the City University of New York in 2021. He shares his thoughts on the practical applications of Epistemic Injustice in clinical ethics consultation as well as how Epistemic Injustice relates to our understandings of cannabis efficacy and long COVID among other things. Ryan's other work can be found here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/hast.1248.

Amelia and Kirk interview Jada Wiggleton-Little who is a PhD Candidate at UC San Diego working primarily in philosophy of mind, social epistemology, and clinical ethics. Ms. Wiggleton-Little unpacks her theory called pain-related motivational deficit. Pain-related motivational deficits occur when a self-reported pain is believed but fails to motivate concern because ideologies distort either features of the speaker in pain (e.g., obese people deserve their pain) or distorts the kind of pain being expressed (e.g., excruciating period pains are normal). To resist these oppressive distortions, patients often adopt performative strategies that cater to gender and racial expectations and the medical gaze. It is a way of reclaiming one's agency in the clinic, but it is also a laborious task for patients already suffering with chronic pain. Listen for practical solutions and find out what it would look like to be an epistemically humble clinician.

Listen to the whole team discussing the process of developing the Bioethics in the Margins podcast, where we've been on our podcast journey and where we hope to go. Amelia Barwise, Liz Chuang, Kirk Johnson and Nicolle Strand met each other in person for the first time ever this October in Portland, Oregon for the ASBH annual meeting. We heard some great ideas from attendees and had a lot of fun. Don't hesitate to tweet us @BEInTheMargins with your ideas for topics and guests.

In this episode, Kirk and Amanda interview Ander Etxeberria-Otadui, the head of Mondragon’s cooperative outreach program. Mr. Etxeberria shares the unique and fascinating history of the Mondragon Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation, as we discuss the impact of solidarity on health and wellbeing. Mr. Etxeberria explains the importance of synergy between solidarity-based and business-minded decision-making within the corporation. We explore the effects of income inequality on safety and mental and physical health of workers and communities.

We interview Christopher D.E. Willoughby is a historian of slavery and medicine in the United States and a Visiting Assistant Professor of the History of Medicine and Health at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. He is the author of the book Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools, which will be published this November by the University of North Carolina Press (https://uncpress.org/book/9781469672120/masters-of-health/), and with Sean Morey Smith, he edited the book Medicine and Healing in the Age of Slavery. He has also written several popular articles for The Washington Post, AL.com, and Black Perspectives. Listen to the conversation about the history of slavery, racism and racial "science" in medical education.

In our final episode of season 2, we welcome Bryan Pilkington (@bcpethics) A,ssociate Professor in the School of Health and Medical Sciences, Adjunct Associate Professor in the College of Nursing, and Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Philosophy at Seton Hall University. He is also Professor at the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine. His research focuses on questions in bioethics, where he is especially interested in questions of conscience, moral responsibility, and the practices of the health professions, and in moral and political philosophy, where he is especially interested in the concept of dignity and in moral disagreement. He lectures on practical ethical challenges in healthcare and teaches courses in normative and applied ethics. We enjoyed listening to his thoughts on the role of dignity in framing a wide range critical moral issues of our time. Professor Pilkington has a chapter on Teaching Dignity in the Health Professions (https://tinyurl.com/2p96dtxe) and has recently written about ethical issues during the COVID pandemic (https://muse.jhu.edu/article/766298) and the importance of bioethics advocacy in the treatment of individuals detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (https://www.thehastingscenter.org/detention-dignity-and-a-call-for-bioethics-advocacy/). Also mentioned in this episode are Ruth Macklin's criticism of the use of the concept of dignity in bioethics (https://www.bmj.com/content/327/7429/1419), the work of John Evans (https://johnhevans.ucsd.edu/research/what-is-bioethics/) and the documentary The Belly of the Beast on illegal sterilizations in California women's prisons (https://www.bellyofthebeastfilm.com/).

Kirk and Amanda interview Jennifer McCurdy, PhD (@JennyMac222) about her new article in the Hastings Center Special Report: A Critical Moment in Bioethics: Reckoning with Anti‐Black Racism through Intergenerational Dialogue titled "Colonial Geographies, Black Geographies, and Bioethics" (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hast.1375). After making this podcast, we have a new perspective on the beautiful spring flowers surrounding us. Listen and you will too. Referenced in the podcast is a talk by Dr. Nneke Sederstrom (@NnekaPhD), which can be found here: https://asbh.org/resources/dei-webinars. If for some reason you haven't yet read the whole Hastings Center Report yet, go find it now right here: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/toc/1552146x/2022/52/S1). Yes now. We'll wait.

This month, we are so pleased to have a conversation with Gabo Arora, an award-winning filmmaker and Founder & Creative Director of LightShed (https://lightshed.io/), a virtual reality and social impact start-up. The UN's first-ever Creative Director, Gabo Arora has over 15 years of humanitarian field experience, and has directed, produced and pioneered a series of widely acclaimed virtual reality documentaries (Clouds Over Sidra, Waves of Grace, My Mother's Wing, amongst others) for the United Nations that have all premiered at major film festivals around the world, including Cannes, Sundance and Tribeca. We discuss the role of immersive storytelling and empathy building in healthcare and society.

Kirk and Amelia interview our very own sound editor Nicole Strand, JD, MBE, MPH. @Nicolle_Strand is the Assistant Director for Research at the Center for Urban Bioethics at Temple University. Her work is on structural determinants of health, racism, health equity, advocacy, and culture change. We discuss critical race theory, the use of race in biomedical research and more. Professor Strand's comments on the Hastings Center blog can be found here: Bioethics Must Resist Attacks on Critical Race Theory. She also recently published Racial Myths and Regulatory Responsibility in the Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics.

This month, Kirk and Amelia sit down with Daphne Martschenko, who is an interdisciplinary, mixed-methods researcher working at the intersections of bioethics, the social sciences, and the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of genetics. Find out about adversarial collaboration and more.

Dr. Martschenko’s scholarship investigates the ethical and social implications of genetics/genomics and identifies policy recommendations to address these issues. In her work she advocates for and facilitates research efforts that promote interdisciplinary collaborations and social and ethical responsibility in genetics broadly and social and behavioral genomics specifically. Read about the public FAQ on social and behavioral genomic discussions here. Find Dr. Martschenko's Critical Studies in Education article Normalizing race in (gifted) education: genomics and spaces of white exceptionalism here.