We are back with season 7, chatting with Brian Tuohy, PhD, a sociologist of immigration and health, assistant professor of bioethics, and co-director of education at the Lewis Katz School of of Medicine at Temple University. We use the lens of immigrant health to delve into some deeper questions like "What does bioethics mean?" Dr. Tuohy generously shares his own personal and professional journey into the field, highlighting the interdisciplinary nature of bioethics. He discusses his own...

In this episode, Kirk and Amelia speak with Asha Hassan, MPH, a doctoral candidate at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health. Together, they discuss her recent work on the link between exposure to tear gas during the 2020 protests for racial justice and consequent reproductive health issues. Asha explores the lack of sufficient policy innovation about banning chemical agents in protest settings as well as how systemic racism and ableism lead to patterns of healthcare...

In this episode, Amelia and Kirk speak with Lynette Martins who is co-leader of the ASBH immigration affinity group with Dr. Brian Tuohy and a recent graduate from Georgetown Law’s O’Neill Institute in national and global health law. Ms. Martins highlights the importance of Medical-Legal Partnerships in identifying and addressing both direct and indirect impacts that legal issues and policy have on health and healthcare access and outcomes. MLP’s are particularly helpful for addressing the...

In this episode, Kirk and Amelia speak with Dr. Deepshikha Ashana about her research on racial disparities present in shared decision-making practices in critical care. Dr. Ashana shares how her research interests were motivated by her personal observations of racial disparities, from her childhood in India, her experience moving to the US, and her education in Philadelphia. Her recent research thematically analyzed audio recordings of conversations between families and clinicians of critical...

Amelia and Kirk chat with Dr. Mark Kuczewski, Professor of Medical Ethics at Loyola University, Chicago. In this episode, they discuss his recent article https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/nonprofit-health-care-behaves-badly-case-mission-leaders-ombudsmen in which Dr. Kuczewski elucidates the challenges nonprofit healthcare employees face as workplace culture becomes increasingly corporatized and the importance of counterweights– in the form of ombudsmen, better-designed...

Kirk and Amelia had the pleasure of speaking with Dr. Anita L. Allen, the Henry R. Silverman Professor of Law and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania. In this episode, they discuss Dr. Allen’s experiences working on President Obama’s Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues  where she engaged in deliberative democracy approaches to explore challenges with advances in biomedicine, technology and synthetic biology. A highlight of her time there  included...

Dr. Stephen Hargarten is a Professor of Emergency Medicine, Associate Dean for Global Health, Director of the Global Health Pathway, and Director of the Comprehensive Injury Center at the Medical College of Wisconsin. His research interests reflect an intersection of injury and violence prevention and health policy to address the burden of this biosocial disease. He was the founding President of the Society for the Advancement of Violence and Injury Research and has served on the Violence and...

Amelia and Kirk have a broad-ranging discussion with Adira Hulkower, the Director of Clinical Ethics at the Montefiore Einstein Center for Bioethics in the Bronx. She shares her experiences as a clinical ethics consultant applying the concept of Dignity of Risk to better understand the ethical implications of discharge planning for patients experiencing homelessness. They discuss healthcare institutional responsibilities related to social determinants of health broadly as well as to...

We are joined by Rachel Fabi, PhD, Associate Professor of Bioethics and Humanities at SUNY Upstate Medical University. She is a Faculty Research Affiliate at the Syracuse University Lerner Center for Public Health Promotion. She received her Ph.D. in Health Policy and Management, in the Bioethics and Health Policy track, at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, and served as the 2019-2021 National Academy of Medicine Greenwall Fellow in Bioethics.Dr. Fabi shares her insights on...

We kick off Season 5 with the phenomenal Dr. Keisha Ray, who received her PhD in philosophy, with a focus on bioethics, from the University of Utah. She is currently a tenured Associate Professor with the McGovern Center for Humanities & Ethics at UT Health Houston, where she also serves as the Director of the Medical Humanities Scholarly Concentration. Kirk and Amelia chat with her about new book Black Health. Listen to our discussion with Dr. Ray on the importance of writing for...

In this episode, we are joined by Dr. David Kountz, MD, MBA, FACP who is the Chief Academic Officer and Vice President of Academic Diversity for Hackensack Meridian Health, a 17 hospital network in Northern and Central New Jersey. Kirk and Amelia explore a range of strategies to promote equity in clinical care with Dr. Kountz, including the importance of pipeline programs to enhance the diversity of the clinician pool and tying organizational quality metrics to equity outcomes in order to...

We reached out to Dr. Nathaniel Morris after reading his recent article in the New England Journal of Medicine; Injustice Disorder. Dr. Morris is currently an Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychiatry at the University of California San Francisco and provides care to incarcerated patients in the San Francisco jail system. He has published numerous journal articles on mental health care in jails and prisons, the criminalization of people with mental illness and addiction, and other topics in...

Amelia and Kirk speak with Tim Schwab, an investigative journalist based in Washington DC whose work has appeared in The Nation, the Columbia Journalism Review, the British Medical Journal and other outlets. https://about.me/tim_schwab. Today's episode is all about philanthropy and power, and the ethical implications of this facet of concentrated wealth. We discuss implications for public health https://www.thenation.com/article/society/gates-covid-data-ihme/, vaccine distribution and more,...

Kirk and Amelia continue our discussion of Epistemic Injustice with Ryan Felder, PhD. Ryan is a Clinical Ethics Fellow at the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics. He earned his PhD in philosophy from the City University of New York in 2021. He shares his thoughts on the practical applications of Epistemic Injustice in clinical ethics consultation as well as how Epistemic Injustice relates to our understandings of cannabis efficacy and long COVID among other things. Ryan's other work can be...

Amelia and Kirk interview Jada Wiggleton-Little who is a PhD Candidate at UC San Diego working primarily in philosophy of mind, social epistemology, and clinical ethics. Ms. Wiggleton-Little unpacks her theory called pain-related motivational deficit. Pain-related motivational deficits occur when a self-reported pain is believed but fails to motivate concern because ideologies distort either features of the speaker in pain (e.g., obese people deserve their pain) or distorts the kind of pain...

Listen to the whole team discussing the process of developing the Bioethics in the Margins podcast, where we've been on our podcast journey and where we hope to go. Amelia Barwise, Liz Chuang, Kirk Johnson and Nicolle Strand met each other in person for the first time ever this October in Portland, Oregon for the ASBH annual meeting. We heard some great ideas from attendees and had a lot of fun. Don't hesitate to tweet us @BEInTheMargins with your ideas for topics and guests.

In this episode, Kirk and Amanda interview Ander Etxeberria-Otadui, the head of Mondragon’s cooperative outreach program. Mr. Etxeberria shares the unique and fascinating history of the Mondragon Corporation https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mondragon_Corporation, as we discuss the impact of solidarity on health and wellbeing. Mr. Etxeberria explains the importance of synergy between solidarity-based and business-minded decision-making within the corporation. We explore the effects of income...

We interview Christopher D.E. Willoughby is a historian of slavery and medicine in the United States and a Visiting Assistant Professor of the History of Medicine and Health at Pitzer College in Claremont, California. He is the author of the book Masters of Health: Racial Science and Slavery in U.S. Medical Schools, which will be published this November by the University of North Carolina Press (https://uncpress.org/book/9781469672120/masters-of-health/), and with Sean Morey Smith, he edited...

In our final episode of season 2, we welcome Bryan Pilkington (@bcpethics) A,ssociate Professor in the School of Health and Medical Sciences, Adjunct Associate Professor in the College of Nursing, and Affiliated Faculty in the Department of Philosophy at Seton Hall University. He is also Professor at the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine. His research focuses on questions in bioethics, where he is especially interested in questions of conscience, moral responsibility, and the practices...

Kirk and Amanda interview Jennifer McCurdy, PhD (@JennyMac222) about her new article in the Hastings Center Special Report: A Critical Moment in Bioethics: Reckoning with Anti‐Black Racism through Intergenerational Dialogue titled "Colonial Geographies, Black Geographies, and Bioethics" (https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/hast.1375). After making this podcast, we have a new perspective on the beautiful spring flowers surrounding us. Listen and you will too. Referenced in the podcast...

This month, we are so pleased to have a conversation with Gabo Arora, an award-winning filmmaker and Founder & Creative Director of LightShed (https://lightshed.io/), a virtual reality and social impact start-up. The UN's first-ever Creative Director, Gabo Arora has over 15 years of humanitarian field experience, and has directed, produced and pioneered a series of widely acclaimed virtual reality documentaries (Clouds Over Sidra, Waves of Grace, My Mother's Wing, amongst others) for the...

Kirk and Amelia interview our very own sound editor Nicole Strand, JD, MBE, MPH. @Nicolle_Strand is the Assistant Director for Research at the Center for Urban Bioethics at Temple University. Her work is on structural determinants of health, racism, health equity, advocacy, and culture change. We discuss critical race theory, the use of race in biomedical research and more. Professor Strand's comments on the Hastings Center blog can be found here: Bioethics Must Resist Attacks on Critical...

This month, Kirk and Amelia sit down with Daphne Martschenko, who is an interdisciplinary, mixed-methods researcher working at the intersections of bioethics, the social sciences, and the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications of genetics. Find out about adversarial collaboration and more. Dr. Martschenko’s scholarship investigates the ethical and social implications of genetics/genomics and identifies policy recommendations to address these issues. In her work she advocates for and...

In our first episode of Season 2, we discuss gender affirming care for transgender youth with experts Renee Reopell, LCSW and Patrick Herron, DBe. The issues we explore include the discrimination, disparities in healthcare, mental illness and challenging ethical issues around medical care that non-binary youth continue to face today. Our guests also discuss their experiences educating the next generation of physicians to create inclusive and affirming clinical environments for all youth and...