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In this episode, Jane and Chris go to the movies to see The Whale. Warning - there will be spoilers. 

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In this new segment - Bad Public Health Takes - Jane and Chris dissect Prof Susan Jebb's suggestion that bringing cake to work is like passive smoking, and whether taking  weight-loss drugs is cheating. 

• Intro music "Ticklish" by Quincas Moreira Music
• Sound Effect from Pixabay

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In this episode Jane and Chris talk with Dr Lisa Mitchell about ageism in clinical decision-making, societal prejudice against older people, and bio-tech attempts to reverse ageing. They also address ageist representation of older people in Bluey! 

Lisa is a doctor specialising in the care of older people, a clinical ethics consultant and researcher in ageism. 

• Sarah Berry, "Scientists have tried to reverse ageing for decades. Have they finally cracked it?"
•  Karen Hitchcock, "Dear Life: On caring for the elderly"  
• Bluey episode "Grannies" 
• Every Age Counts
• World Health Organization on Ageism

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In this final episode for 2022 we reflect on the year, some conferences, and the best language learning apps. 

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In this episode Chris and Jane wander through Robert Crawford's 1980 paper 'Healthism and the medicalization of everyday life'

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In this episode Chris and Jane talk with Dr Michiel de Proost about his research on egg and sperm freezing, as well as feminist approaches to bioethics and reproductive justice. 

Michiel is a newly graduated PhD from the Vrije Universiteit  in Brussels, in the Research Centre for Gender, Diversity and Intersectionality. His work uses feminist ethics theories to explain conceptions of autonomy and emancipation in social egg freezing and, more recently, fertility apps that target men. 

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In this episode Jane and Chris discuss the consequences of overturning Roe v Wade and its relevance to Australia or otherwise. Joining them in this conversion is Dr Rebekah McWhirter.

Bek is a senior lecturer in health law and ethics in the School of Medicine at Deakin University. Her research interests include ethical and legal issues in health, Indigenous genetics, and empirical research methods in ethical and legal research. She has qualifications in law, public health and history.

Resources discussed include:

• Abortion and Professional Secrecy A. V. M. Anderson; Medical Journal of Australia 1924 Vol. 2 Issue 19 Pages 495-498  https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.5694/j.1326-5377.1924.tb62321.x
• Medical abortion in Australia: a short history B. Baird, Reproductive Health Matters 2015 Vol. 23 Issue 46 Pages 169-176 https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1016/j.rhm.2015.10.002 
• Prof Theunis Roux  What does the US Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs tell us about the virtues of Australia’s approach to protecting fundamental rights?  
• God under Howard: The rise of the religious right in Australian politics M. Maddox Publisher: Allen & Unwin 2005 
  
  

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In this episode Chris talks with Dr Caitlin Mahar about the history of euthanasia and how understanding the longer history of death and dying can help to understand contemporary debates over voluntary assisted dying legislation. 

Dr Caitlin Mahar is in Politics and History at Swinburne University. She is an historian whose research focuses on cultural and medical histories of dying and pain in Britain and Australia. She has a BA (Hons) degree in History and English from the University of Melbourne and a MA in Public History from Monash University. Her 2016 PhD thesis exploring the history of euthanasia won the University of Melbourne’s Dennis-Wettenhall Prize for Australian History. Prior to joining Swinburne she taught literature in the Trinity College Foundation Studies program and worked as a researcher in the School of Historical and Philosophical Studies at the University of Melbourne.  Her book on this history of euthanasia will be published in 2023. 

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In this episode Jane and Chris talk with Dr Alda Balthrop-Lewis about her book 'Thoreau's Religion: Walden Woods, Social Justice, and the Politics of Asceticism' and the myths and legacies of Thoreau.  

• Excerpt of Walden read by Gord McKenzie from LibriVox 
• Music from Dan Bodan "City Plaza".
• Other interviews with Alda about her work include 'What is our life for? Henry David Thoreau's search for social justice' on ABC RN's Soul Search.
• Short pieces from Alda include 'What baking sourdough can teach us about the moral life'. 

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