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Send us Fan Mail 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 dyin...

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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.  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" undisciplinar...

Send us Fan Mail 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.  Undisciplinary - a podcast that talks across the boundaries of h...

Send us Fan Mail 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, un...

Send us Fan Mail 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 tes...

Send us Fan Mail 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: Me...

Send us Fan Mail 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 Nam...

Send us Fan Mail 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.  Follow us on Twitter @undisciplinary_ or email questions for "mailbag episodes" undisciplinarypod@gmail.com 

Send us Fan Mail 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 Undis...

Send us Fan Mail 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 tha...

Send us Fan Mail 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" undisciplinarypod@gmail.com 

Send us Fan Mail 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.  Follow us on Twitter @undisciplinary_ or email questions for "mailbag episodes" undisciplinarypod@gmail.com 

Send us Fan Mail 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.  Follow us on Twitter @undisciplinary_ or email questions for &q...

Send us Fan Mail 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 Undisciplinary - a podcast that talks across the boundaries of history, ethics, and the politics of health.  Follow us on Twitter @un...

Send us Fan Mail 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.  Follow us on Twitter @undisciplinary_ or email questions for "mailbag episodes" undisciplinarypod@gmail.com 

Send us Fan Mail 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...

Send us Fan Mail 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 In...

Send us Fan Mail 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 @undisciplinar...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Chris and Courtney discuss how "good doctors" are produced by looking at the history of medical ethics in the Australian medical curriculum. They tackle the myth that medical ethics wasn't taught prior to Beauchamp and Childress's "Principles of Biomedical Ethics" (1979), and it wasn't "mere etiquette" either. They also...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we talk with Bryan Mukandi,  ARC DECRA Research Fellow, School of Languages and Cultures Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences   We discuss Bryan's background in Medicine, Public Health, and Philosophy and his trans-disciplinary research agenda which revolves around gaining greater conceptual clarity into the well-being of people belonging to marginalised...

Send us Fan Mail Chris and Courtney are back for 2021. New content, new chats, and new analysis of old debates in the history, ethics, and politics of health! Plus there is a GIVEAWAY - book for comments!! Go into the draw for a copy of Unsettling Food Politics (Chris's book) by: Review (preferably favorably) the pod on Apple, take a screen shot & email to undisciplinarypod@gmail.com; or...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Chris and Courtney question nature of disciplines, the perils of being undisciplined, and whether genre may be a useful way of thinking about some fields of inquiry, such as bioethics.  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 "mailb...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Chris talks with Zena Cumpston about the interconnection of life and place, the in/visibility of Aboriginal peoples in urban landscapes, and the complexity of using Indigenous knowledges to addresses ecological crises. Zena Cumpston is a Barkandji woman who is passionate about all aspects of representation in relation to First Peoples. She currently works as a Rese...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we talk with Bryanna Moore about the joys and challenges of being an ethics consultant in a clinical context in the United States. We also discuss different philosophical approaches to clinical ethics decision making, the importance of physical presence and the added challenges of COVID-19. Dr Bryanna Moore is a postdoctoral fellow in clinic ethics at Baylor Colleg...