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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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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

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• 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

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• 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 

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• 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. 

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