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In this episode of the recently renamed segment - Good Take/Bad Take - Chris and Jane tackle some thorny issues in pop culture (Bluey creators editing their recent episode "Exercise"), the boring and damaging use of war rhetoric in public health, and James Packer's recent $7 million donation to the University of New South Wales to fund research into mental health. 

Undisciplinary - a podcast that talks across the boundaries of history, ethics, and the politics of health. 
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In this episode Jane and Chris talk with Associate Professor Seye Abimbola from the University of Sydney about their work on dignity in global health and the need for researchers and practitioners to have epistemic dignity as a precondition for health justice. 

• When dignity meets evidence, The Lancet

Undisciplinary - a podcast that talks across the boundaries of history, ethics, and the politics of health. 
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In this episode Chris and Jane discuss Jane's recently published paper on polarisation and public health expertise. 

Undisciplinary - a podcast that talks across the boundaries of history, ethics, and the politics of health. 
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In this episode, Jane and Chris go to the movies to see The Whale. Warning - there will be spoilers. 

Undisciplinary - a podcast that talks across the boundaries of history, ethics, and the politics of health. 
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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

Undisciplinary - a podcast that talks across the boundaries of history, ethics, and the politics of health. 
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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

Undisciplinary - a podcast that talks across the boundaries of history, ethics, and the politics of health. 
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In this final episode for 2022 we reflect on the year, some conferences, and the best language learning apps. 

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] 

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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] 

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

Undisciplinary - a podcast that talks across the boundaries of history, ethics, and the politics of health. 
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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. 

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]