Bioethics for the People

Hot Take #4: Cutting the Line Devan Stahl and Tyler Gibb The rollout of the COVID19 vaccine has been…interesting, to say the least. There have been many news stories about folks jumping in line to get their vaccines. Is this ever ethical? What should you do if you are given an opportunity for a vaccine, but don’t feel like you should? Devan and Tyler talk about some of the hiccups in the vaccine r...

Medicine, Professionalism & #MedBikini Devan Stahl and Tyler Gibb This episode features Devan’s famous TikTok dancing, and, perhaps more interestingly, Dr. Alyssa Burgart about professionalism, medical education, bioethics, and host of other topics. Dr. Burgart specializes in pediatric anesthesia and pediatric abdominal transplant anesthesia. She has special interest in transplantation, PANS/PANDA...

In this episode, Devan and Tyler discuss how vaccine distribution is going and whether or not it is ethical to mandate people to take the vaccine.

What is Clinical Ethics? Devan Stahl and Tyler Gibb Some folks may be surprised that in many hospitals across the country there are ethicists wandering the halls. In this episode, Tyler and Devan chat with Dr. Virginia Bartlett about clinical ethics. Who are clinical ethicists, what do they do, when would they be involved in the care of patients? Read more of Dr. Bartlett’s published work here: “R...

Digital Afterlife--What Could Go Wrong? Devan Stahl and Tyler Gibb In this Episode, Devan and Tyler link up with Brian Doak and Leah Payne , co-hosts of the award-winning Weird Religion podcast. They all discuss futurists, transhumanism, the afterlife, and the Amazon Prime series “Upload.” Check out other episodes from Weird Religion podcast here ‘UpLoad’ on Amazon Prime is available here . Read m...

In this episode Tyler and Devan discuss plans for distributing the new Covid vaccine and who counts as a “healthcare worker” in phase 1a of the rollout.

Devan and Tyler talk about religion in medicine, including what it’s like to work as a hospital chaplain and the ways patients bring up religion in the hospital. They also talk with professor Patrick Smith about how he came into bioethics from his training in Christian ethics and social justice.

Devan & Tyler talk about the ethical issues raised in an Atlantic Monthly article entitled: “The Last Children of Down syndrome.”

In this special episode, Tyler and Devan discuss the basics of human subjects research, including the ethical challenges in Covid-19 challenge trials.

Devan and Tyler catch-up with Prof Jason Wasserman and discuss bioethics, social science, and Wasserman's work with people experiencing homelessness.

What counts as “bioethics”? What perspectives and topics have been marginalized? In this episode, Devan and Tyler talk with Professor Keisha Ray about her work in black bioethics and why it is necessary.

In this episode, Devan and Tyler check-in with professor Tom Tomlinson to discuss some of the misconceptions and myths that surround end of life decision-making and clinical ethics.

In this week’s true-crime-adjacent Halloween special, Tyler and Devan talk to Darian Goldin Stahl about the infamous grave robbers William Burke and William Hare.

This episode we discuss the future of a Covid vaccine and why anyone wouldn't want to be first in line once the vaccine is distributed. We discuss vaccine hesitancy with Mark Navin.

This episode, Tyler and Devan recount their experiences at the American Society for Bioethics and Humanities. They interview professor Ana Iltis, the current president of the ASBH, about how she became a bioethicist and who comes to the ASBH.

This episode, Tyler and Devan discuss how their role as bioethicists has changed during the pandemic. They talk with Matthew Wynia about his work in bioethics and his predictions of what will change in bioethics as a result of Covid-19

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