In this episode, Jeff interviews an OBY/GYN about questions of risk and benefit, and practicing medicine in tricky legal territory and the effect that has on physician but patient autonomy. Jeff and Emma then discuss the film Critical Care which deals with issues of end-of-life care, risk analysis (institutional), surrogate decision-making and healthcare funding. Thanks to Johnna Wellesley for her help with the transcription. Artwork by Nathan Forbes.Twitter: @EthixSchmethix (and yo...

In this episode we discuss the movie Upgrade. Emma also mentions Dana Lewis and her work creating #OpenAPS (open source artificial pancreas system movement).This piece by Jillian Weise about disabled people as the first true cyborgs is great for touching on a number of things that we talked about today .And lastly, this piece by Rose Eleveth about the stories and language we tell around the inevitability of technological progress is great, too.We'd also like to thank Craig for his cameo at th...

In this episode we discuss the film Paddleton (2019) with a focus on the theme of platonic relationships and how this is portrayed in the film, connecting it to discussions in clinical settings.We mention this review by Kyle Turner in the New York Times.While the focus of this episode is not on the ethics of assisted dying, this is obviously a very controversial topic. For an accessible but brief (i.e. not comprehensive) overview of some of the pros and cons, see this link.You can also ...