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In this episode Chris and Jane talk with Dr Yves Aquino about his work on the pathologization of ugliness, cosmetic surgery and race, and the norms of health and beauty. 

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In the first episode for 2022, Chris and Jane talk with Peta Cook from UTAS about the ethical and social issues surrounding xenotransplantation. The discuss the recent developments surrounding the genetically modified pig heart that was transplanted into an American man, as well as historical precedence and debates. 

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In the final episode for the year Jane and Chris discuss the ethics of doctors in Greece taking bribes to infect anti-vaxxers with fake vaccines, but instead injecting them with the real one. We also discuss a shift in the way COVID is being governed - a move away from state-led public health measures to rhetoric of individual choice and responsibility. We also talk about risk, uncertainty, favorite books from 2021 and what will 2022 hold. 

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In this episode we are talking with Kiran Pienaar about the uncertainties and ambivalences produces via medical tests and diagnostics. We discuss some of her recent work with Prof Alan Petersen and the notion of bio-subjectivities. Plus leaf blowers. 

Sources discussed include:

• Searching for diagnostic certainty, governing risk: Patients' ambivalent experiences of medical testing 
• Managing risks or generating uncertainties? Ambiguous ontologies of testing in Australian healthcare

Audio

• Music City Plaza - Dan Bodan

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In this episode Jane and Chris are joined by Diego Silva from Sydney Health Ethics, University of Sydney to discuss his work on solidarity as a moral guide for global health. They also spend a lot of time talking about the aesthetics and political and ethical significance of sport, as well as whether academics (aka nerds) are allowed to enjoy sports. 

Sources discussed include:

• Mere rhetoric? Using solidarity as a moral guide for deliberations on border closures, border reopenings and travel restrictions in the age of COVID-19

Audio

• Music City Plaza - Dan Bodan
• Outro Barry Bonds - Kanye West

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In this episode Chris and Jane talk with Camilla Pickles from Durham University about her research on obstetric violence and the difficulties in drawing attention to the ethical and legal problems associated with childbirth, consent, and stereotypes regarding pain and capacity.

Sources discussed include:

• Obstetric violence blog
• Sounding the alarm: Government of the Republic of Namibia v LM and Women's Rights during Childbirth in South Africa
• Women’s Birthing Bodies and the Law: Unauthorised Intimate Examinations, Power and Vulnerability 

Audio

• Music City Plaza - Dan Bodan

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In this episode we are talking about neuro-ethics and the good & bad of interdisciplinarity with Cynthia Forlini. 

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In this episode we are discussing the obligations of the pharmaceutical industry during a global health emergency, plus the ethics of vaccine distribution and wearable tracking devices. We are talking with Assistant Professor Owen Schaefer from the Centre for Biomedical Ethics, National University Singapore.

Audio

• President Trump praising Pfizer 
• Music City Plaza - Dan Bodan

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New Season, New Co-host!
Jane Williams is joining the Undisciplinary team as a host and the first conversation is about Robert Veatch's paper on Generalized Expertise (1973) and we discuss how in the age of COVID everyone has become an expert about epidemiology, artificial intelligence, withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan and everything else. 

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Undisciplinary - a podcast that talks across the boundaries of history, ethics, and the politics of health.
Follow us on Twitter @undisciplinary_ or email questions for "mailbag episodes" [email protected]