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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

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

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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Chris and Courtney are taking a break for the rest of April. Next episode will drop on 6 May 2021. Take care and thanks to all our guests and listeners. 

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 Courtney discuss with Jane Williams the politics of vaccine, hotel quarantine and other things.

Audio

• Annastacia Palaszczuk discussion COVID clusters in QLD via SBS News
• Bunnings Karen

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 Courtney continue the discussion of the emergence of euthanasia debates and legislation in Australia during the 1980s.
 
Art & Audio

• Music City Plaza - Dan Bodan
• Q&A FactCheck: Supporting Euthanasia | 10 April 2017

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In this episode Courtney and Chris talking with Pat McConville about artificial hearts and phenomenological approaches to bioethics.  

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 Courtney talk with Thao Phan about her research on AI, Robotics and algorithmic cultures. Specifically, discussing her work on  technologies like Amazon's Echo and Apple's Siri and how they continue histories of racialised, gendered and classed labour in the domestic sphere. They also discuss the ethics of AI and how much of the ethics research is funded by the companies producing the ethical questions.

Thao is a Research Fellow at the Alfred Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University. She is a feminist STS researcher who analyses the technologization of gender and race in algorithmic culture. She is also the Co-founder and Convenor of the Australasian STS grad network (or AusSTS) and the program coordinator for the Deakin Science and Society Network.

References

• The materiality of the digital and the gendered voice of Siri (2017) Technoscience
• Amazon Echo and the Aesthetics of Whiteness (2019) Catalyst
• Economies of virtue: the circulation of "ethics" in AI and digital culture
• Re Bioethicist serving on pharma board see Leigh Turner's piece

Music & Audio

• The Jetsons: Rosie the Robot First Appearance
• Music City Plaza - Dan Bodan

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 Courtney discuss the emergence of ‘voluntary assisted dying’ legislation in the Australian context, and explore aspects of the history of ‘euthanasia’, including terminology and assumptions.

References

• Voluntary assisted dying (Victoria, Australia) 
• Ezekiel J. Emanuel (1994) The history of euthanasia debates in the United States and Britain, Annals of Internal Medicine 
• Editorial (1969) Euthanasia legislation, Medical Journal of Australia (10 May)
• Editorial (1976) The problems of legalizing euthanasia—and the alternative, Medical Journal of Australia (30 October)

Art & Audio

• Music City Plaza - Dan Bodan
• Anthony Albanese in Australian Parliament debating Euthanasia Laws Act 1997  

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 Courtney discuss Quinn's research on commercial influence on nurses,  the power dynamics surrounding nursing in university and hospital institutions, and the visibility/invisibility of nurse whistleblowers. 

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]