Voices in Bioethics Podcast

Voices in Bioethics staff member Valerie Chung interviews Dr. Zohar Lederman, MD, PhD, an emergency medicine physician and bioethicist with a particular interest in loneliness. Discussion includes how COVID-19 has affected our understanding of loneliness, the difference between solidarity and loneliness, and the issue of justice. Dr. Lederman also discusses ways that bioethicists can become…

Marc-David Munk, MD, MPH, MS, joined the podcast to discuss his book, Urgent Calls from Distant Places, which chronicles his time as a doctor with Amref Health Flying Doctor Services in Nairobi, Kenya. With the organization, Dr. Munk provided emergency medical services to people in need across the region traveling to Rwanda, Tanzania, and the…

Karla Childers, MS, Head, Bioethics-based Science & Technology Policy for the Office of the Chief Medical Officer at Johnson & Johnson, discusses the challenges and opportunities to collaborate during crisis. The episode covers challenges to operations, supply chain, and infrastructure and creative ways to continue clinical trials. Disruptions from weather-related events, the pandemic, and war…

Voices in Bioethics staff member Abigail Anderson interviews Dan Honig, MA, owner of Happy Valley Meat Company, which is focused on increasing access to ethically raised meat from family farms. Discussion includes the process of founding Happy Valley Meat Company, the importance of ethically sourced meat to the environment and the public, and Dan’s recommendations…

David Edward Walker holds a PhD in psychology and has had years of experience in the US Indian Health Service as a licensed psychologist. He shares insights he developed while serving the Yakama Nation community. Specifically, the conversation covers his experiences as well as the way oppression and marginalization are reframed as issues of mental…

Dr. Sam Sugar, an internal medicine specialist who exposed widespread corruption in the guardianship systems, joins the podcast to discuss the guardianship system and the vulnerability of older adults to corporate guardianship, abuse of power, and crime. He is the author of Guardianships and the Elderly: The Perfect Crime. and Founder and President of Americans…

Joshua May is a philosophy professor at University of Alabama, Birmingham. He holds a PhD from UC, Santa Barbara. His recent book, Neuroethics: Agency in the Age of Brain Science brings together neuroscience and philosophy to create a nuanced view of human agency as surprisingly diverse and flexible. He joins the Voices in Bioethics podcast…

Michael Scroggins, Lecturer at UCLA Institute for Society and Genetics, discusses ChatGPT and the changing landscape of technology. This conversation follows up the Voices in Bioethics 10th anniversary event, ChatGPT, Knowledge, and Misinformation. The conversation ranges from a discussion of knowledge and how people use technology to the concept of tech users as citizens rather…

Susie Hughes is the Co-Founder and Executive Director of the Coalition to End Transplant Abuse in China (ETAC). She leads the organization’s advocacy efforts, hosts numerous roundtable discussions, and has extensive experience in the not-for-profit human rights sector. She joins Anne Zimmerman to discuss forced organ harvesting from prisoners of conscience in China. Forced organ…

Eric Maisel is the author of 50+ books, including Why Smart Teens Hurt, Redesign Your Mind, Rethinking Depression, and The Future of Mental Health. Dr. Maisel writes the “Rethinking Mental Health” blog for Psychology Today and is the creator and lead editor for the Ethics International Press Critical Psychology and Critical Psychiatry Series. A retired family therapist and active…