Health Ethics Podcast
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Health Ethics Podcast

by Bryan Pilkington

The Health Ethics Podcast (formerly The COVID Ethics Series Podcast) relies on the idea that challenging ethical issues are best addressed by many folks, from diverse backgrounds, practically reasoning together. Each week Professor Bryan Pilkington is joined by leading experts from medicine, nursing, and the health sciences, as well as political theorists, economists, ethicists, philosophers and lawyers for a conversation about ethical issues.

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1
Asking for Aid: ICE, Advocacy, and Bioethics
15:16 Apr 13, 2026
2
Vaccines now: Politicians, science, and a new public health reality
31:53 Feb 24, 2026
3
Why Accreditation Matters: Safeguarding Quality in Medical Education
45:39 Jan 5, 2026
4
Art & the opposing viewpoint: Towards logical reasoning and civil discourse
42:03 Oct 20, 2025
5
Academic Chutes and Ladders: Differential Attainment in Medical Education
30:35 Oct 1, 2025
6
Healthcare Sustainability: Aligning Health and Environmental Ethics
36:26 Aug 10, 2025
7
Beyond the Exam Room: Physicians as Advocates
35:50 Jul 13, 2025
8
Does science have a PR Problem? Information, Misinformation, and the Politics of Medicine
49:51 Jul 1, 2025
9
The Bioethics of "Baby Boxes"
39:36 May 19, 2025
10
The Canary in the Coal Mine: Infectious Disease, Vaccine Hesitancy, and What We Owe Each Other
45:59 Apr 23, 2025
11
Neurodiversity: What it is and What Happens Now
36:38 Apr 2, 2025
12
The Ongoing U.S. Struggle with Maternal Mortality
36:36 Feb 21, 2025
13
Care of the Whole Person: The role of Hospital Chaplains
41:30 Jan 28, 2025
14
Am I My Students’ Nurse?
32:10 Dec 2, 2024
15
A Matter of Trust (with Guest Dr. Thomas Nasca)
41:30 Nov 21, 2024
16
The Bioethics of Environmental Injustice
32:31 Oct 11, 2024
17
The Occasional Human Sacrifice: A Conversation with Carl Elliott
47:05 Jul 23, 2024
18
How Will This Benefit Patients? AI Integration into Clinical Decision Making
25:11 Jul 12, 2024
19
Spheres of Morality: The Ethical Codes of the Medical Profession
34:35 Jun 17, 2024
20
Academic Freedom in Medicine: Ethics and the Training of Sovereign Professionals
36:56 Jun 3, 2024
21
Do healthcare institutions have a conscience?
37:54 May 1, 2024
22
Societal Informed Consent in the Age of AI
38:28 Apr 4, 2024
23
"Trust Me, I'm a Clinician": Medical Expertise, Trust, and the Patient Experience
37:08 Jun 5, 2023
24
Health Equity is the Goal, Health Justice is the Path
46:18 May 22, 2023
25
A Sociologist and a Philosopher Talk Medical Education
48:00 May 8, 2023
26
The Philosophy of Disability: Equity, Justice and Health
29:16 Apr 6, 2023
27
Artificial Intelligence (AI) in Clinical Decision Making: A Surgeon's perspective
31:17 Feb 27, 2023
28
How We Could End the Pandemic
28:50 Jan 21, 2023
29
Physicians' Stress & Burnout During the COVID-19 Pandemic
47:48 Dec 11, 2022
30
Universal Healthcare: On Human Dignity, Global Co-Operation, and Financial Sustainability
45:02 Jun 27, 2022
31
COVID's "politicization tragedy" and physician obligations to public health
25:44 Apr 6, 2022
32
Conscience, Vaccines, and the Obligations of Community
48:31 Feb 17, 2022
33
Listening Beyond the Obvious: Delivering Better Care with Narrative Medicine
25:07 Jan 23, 2022
34
Telling the Stories Behind COVID: Narrative & Graphic Medicine
56:23 Jan 13, 2022
35
Systemic Racism and COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy
26:10 Jan 3, 2022
36
Bioethics & the Reprocessing and Reuse of Medical Equipment
22:21 Dec 14, 2021
37
Long-Term Care, Nursing, and COVID-19 Safety
24:52 Dec 3, 2021
38
Protecting Mother and Child: COVID19 and Pregnancy
18:14 Nov 11, 2021
39
Doing What They've Trained to Do: Medical Student Responses to COVID
1:03:00 Sep 30, 2021
40
Vulnerable Patients Need Strong Advocates
27:33 Sep 26, 2021
41
Social UNdistancing & the Duty to Protect One's Neighbor
32:36 Sep 7, 2021
42
Expertise in the Time of COVID: Who has it? Who should have it?
54:29 May 21, 2021
43
On Lonely Deaths: COVID, Community, & the Lost Art of Dying Well
1:11:12 May 2, 2021
44
Contact Tracing and the Public's Health
23:57 Apr 10, 2021
45
It isn't COVID that's racist: Inequities in healthcare in the time of COVID-19
32:11 Mar 27, 2021
46
COVID-19 Challenge Trials
16:43 Dec 1, 2020
47
Voting for Health: The Entwined Paths of Medicine and Politics
55:34 Nov 4, 2020
48
Taking Seriously the Duty to Plan: The Future of Health, Education, Sports, and Politics After COVID
59:07 Oct 21, 2020
49
Children: Education and Safety in the Time of COVID
1:00:55 Sep 8, 2020
50
Community Ethics During COVID: Student Voices
57:12 Sep 3, 2020
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