Health Ethics Podcast

Voting for Health: The Entwined Paths of Healthcare and Politics Recorded October 29, 2020 at 4:00pm EST. COVID-19 impacts not only the health of members of our communities and calls out for political and public policy responses, but it also highlights unjust structural features in healthcare and inequalities embedded within the very processes intended to inform politics and public policy. In this...

COVID-19 has impacted societies in various ways and laid bare failures of institutions in many sectors to plan for challenging eventualities. In this session, Prof. Bryan Pilkington speaks with a multi-disciplinary panel of experts about how the ethical norm – the duty to plan – which is well entrenched in the field of bioethics, is taken up in other sectors. Panelists, including Dr. Joseph Nyre,...

COVID-19 has impacted children in various ways and divergent accounts of its impact have led to confusion, as well as differing policy recommendations and practices. In “Children: Educating Safely in the Time of COVID,” Prof. Bryan Pilkington speaks with a multi-disciplinary panel of experts about the impact that COVID can have on children, their safety, and their education. Panelists: Marie Foley...

As COVID-19 continues to affect communities across the globe, plans and precautions for returning to semblances of normalcy vary. In “Community Ethics During COVID: Student Voices,” Prof. Bryan Pilkington speaks with a multi-disciplinary panel of experts about what we owe to others in our community during this time. Panelists: Shawna Cooper-Gibson (SHU) Judith Lothian (CON) Julia Nicholls (SHU) Je...

As COVID-19 continues to affect communities across the globe, plans and precautions for returning to semblances of normalcy vary. In “Unmasking Ethical Foundations in the Time of COVID: What We Owe to Each Other,” Prof. Bryan Pilkington speaks with a multi-disciplinary panel of experts about the pledges, oaths, and codes of ethics that underlie individual, professional, and community responses to...