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In this episode we talk with Jane Brophy about why the assumption that people are stupid does not adequately explain complex social phenomena. We also discuss Jane's work on stem cell tourism in China, the allure of cruise ships post-COVID, and the new theatrics of hygiene.

Photo by Chris Nguyen on Unsplash
Audio clip Bad Cruise Ship Passengers

Undisciplinary - a podcast that talks across the boundaries of history, ethics, and the politics of health. 
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In this episode we talk with Morgan Carpenter, a bioethicist and co-executive director of Intersex Human Rights Australia. We discuss Intersex rights, the power of medical language, diagnosis and interventions, and the intersectional politics and ethics of the Intersex community.  

**Click to read about the Intersex Flag**

References

• Darlington Statement
• ‘Intersexion’ debate at Melbourne Medical Student Conference, 2020
• Morgan, Carpenter (2020), Caster Semenya’s life and achievements are cause for celebration, respect and inclusion; her exclusion is consequential, Journal of Medical Ethics. 
• Fraser, Kenneth, M. J. J. O’Reilly, and J. R. Rintoul. 1966. ‘Hermaphroditus Verus, with Report of a Case’. Medical Journal of Australia 1 (24): 1003–8. doi:10.5694/j.1326-5377.1966.tb73198.x.
• In the marriage of C and D (falsely called C) (1979) FLC 90-636.
• Finlay, Henry A. 1980. ‘Sexual Identity and the Law of Nullity’. Australian Law Journal 54 (3): 115–26.
• Canberra Times. 1983. ‘S. Australian Officials Insist That Boys Won’t Be Girls’. Canberra Times, August 9.
  
  

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In this episode we talk with Dr Dan Fleming, group manager of ethics and formation for St Vincent’s Health Australia. We discuss Catholic bioethics in end-of-life care, the Sydney Archbishops' letter to the Prime Minister regarding the ethics of the Oxford COVID vaccine, and the need for careful and attentive communication.

Audio Clips and Art

• Patricia Karvelas ABC RN Drive, Catholic Archbishop urges PM to pursue COVID vaccine without foetal cells
• Peter Overton, 9 News Australia
• Religious leaders set to boycott Oxford University vaccine developed using aborted foetus | ABC News
• Photo by Sean Mungur on Unsplash
• City Plaza - Dan Bodan

References

• Daniel Fleming, Attentiveness to Vulnerability (Pickwick Publications: 2019).
• Archbishop Fisher OP: Let’s not create an ethical dilemma

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In this episode Chris and Courtney talk with Marc Trabsky, author of "Law and the Dead: Technology, Relations and Institutions". They discuss the changing role of the coroner across history, relationship between record-keeping and law, and Trabsky's undisciplined approach to legal scholarship.

Music & Art

• Audio clip - WPBF 25 News + Coroner's Report: Black Plague
• Image - "Poets' Wit and Humour. Selected by W. H. W. Illustrated, etc"

Undisciplinary - a podcast that talks across the boundaries of history, ethics, and the politics of health. 
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In this episode Courtney and Chris foolishly enter the Twitter bin-fire that is the Cancel Culture debate. However, rather than take sides they take the cowards option and discuss a few historical examples of bioethicists getting cancelled or at least attempts made to cancel them. Listen to hear discussions of trans-pacific evangelical politics, a modern-day King Herod, and the notorious after-birth abortion paper...(sheesh).

References

• Jones, D. Gareth. "The View from a Censored Corner." Journal of American Scientific Affiliation September (1985): 169-77.
• Tooley, Michael. "Abortion and Infanticide." Philosophy & Public Affairs 2, no. 1 (1972): 37-65.
• Pinker, Steven. "Why They Kill Their Newborns." New York Times, Nov. 2, 1997. 
• Singer, Peter, and Helga Kuhse. Should the Baby Live?: The Problems of Handicapped Babies. Oxford University Press, 1985.
• An open letter from Giubilini and Minerva, Journal of Medical Ethics Blog.

Music & Art

• Audio clip - Anti-Peter Singer Protest, Princeton, 2015.
• City Plaza - Dan Bodan
• True Messiah - DJ Freedem
• A to the O - Diamond Ortiz
• Photo by Cristian Newman on Unsplash
  
  

Undisciplinary - a podcast that talks across the boundaries of history, ethics, and the politics of health. 
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In this episode we talk with Camisha Russell, Assistant Professor in Philosophy at University of Oregon & author of The Assisted Reproduction of Race, about histories of race and their continued influence in reproductive medicine and technologies. We discuss how critical philosophy of race can help bioethical analyses of health inequalities and racial injustices in reproductive medicine and society in general. 

References

• Gattaca Doctors Visit
• Russell, Camisha. "Questions of Race in Bioethics: Deceit, Disregard, Disparity, and the Work of Decentering." Philosophy Compass 11, no. 1 (2016): 43-55. 
• Russell, Camisha A. The Assisted Reproduction of Race. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2018.

Music & Art

• City Plaza - Dan Bodan
• IVF image
• Power Fist - Keith Tyler

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In this episode we talk with Prof Robert Young from La Trobe University about the changing nature of philosophy in the 1970s, emergence of applied ethics, and early days of the Voluntary Euthanasia Society of Victoria.

References

• Young, Robert. "Some Criteria for Making Decisions Concerning the Distribution of Scarce Medical Resources." Theory and Decision 6, no. 4 (1975): 439-55.
• Young, Robert. "Voluntary and Nonvoluntary Euthanasia." The Monist  (1976): 264-83.
• Young, Robert. "Voluntary Euthanasia." Medical Journal of Australia 142, no. 2 (1985): 166-66.

Music & Photo

• City Plaza - Dan Bodan
• Image modified "Bill Nye's History of the United States. Illustrated by F. Opper"

Undisciplinary - a podcast that talks across the boundaries of history, ethics, and the politics of health. 
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In this episode of Undisciplinary we talk with Dr Jane Williams from Sydney Health Ethics (University of Sydney) about public health ethics during a pandemic and the uneven distribution of blame and responsibility for outbreaks. We also question the emphasis on the need for a vaccine, the politics of vaccine distribution and whether immunity passports will repeat past examples of racialised and unjust forms of population control.

Transcript available at our website Undisciplinary.org

References

•  Walled World map 
• Jane Williams & Bridget Haire, "Why some people don't want to take the COVID-19 test", The Conversation
• Introduction audio from Daniel Andrews's press conference came from this ABC News article

Music & Photo

• City Plaza - Dan Bodan
• Bunny Hop - Quincas Moreira
• Photo by iMattSmart on Unsplash

Undisciplinary - a podcast that talks across the boundaries of history, ethics, and the politics of health. 
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This is short teaser episode to introduce our new podcast Undisciplinary.

Each episode, we, Courtney Hempton and Chris Mayes take an undisciplined dive into the underwater caverns of history, ethics and politics of health. We will have guests to help us gain some insight into the past and attempt to break down the latest biopolitical news, pour fuel on #bioethicstwitter bin-fires, and dig up forgotten gems from the archive. New episodes drop every Thursday.

Notes
Introductory from Annemarie Mol's The Body Multiple: Ontology in Medical Practice (Duke University Press, 2003).

Episode artwork: Drew Beamer https://unsplash.com/@drew_beamer

Music: "City Plaza" by Dan Bodan  http://bit.ly/danBodan

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]