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The Bioethics Podcast The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity
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The Bioethics Podcast is an audio resource exploring the pressing bioethical challenges of our day featuring staff, fellows, and friends of The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity.
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Dual-Use Technologies and Genetic Surveillance of Ethnic Minorities in China: An Interview with Yves Moreau
CBHD Research Analyst Heather Zeiger interviews Yves Moreau, professor of engineering at the University of Leuven, Belgium. His research is located at the interface between artificial intelligence and genetics, focusing in particular on mass surveillance technology.
SHOW NOTES
"Unethical studies on Chinese minority groups are being retracted — but not fast enough, critics say," Nature, https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00170-0
"US company must stop supplying China’s regime with DNA surveillance tech," The Hill, https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4421537-us-company-must-stop-supplying-chinas-regime-with-dna-surveillance-tech/
"U.S.-made Dna Id Equipment Is Being Sold to Xinjiang’s Police," MindMatters, https://mindmatters.ai/2021/07/u-s-made-dna-id-equipment-is-being-sold-to-xinjiangs-police/
"China: Dna Phenotyping Profiles Racial Minorities," MindMatters, https://mindmatters.ai/2019/12/china-dna-phenotyping-profiles-racial-minorities/
"A Christian Response to Xinjiang: Technological Repression and Cultural Genocide," Dignitas, https://www.cbhd.org/dignitas-articles/a-christian-response-to-xinjiang-technological-repression-and-cultural-genocide
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CBHD Current Work, Future Plans
As you may know, April marks the end of our fiscal year, so our Executive Director, Dr. Eppinette, provides updates on some of the work we’ve been doing and some of the plans we have for the future.
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Barbenheimer & Bioethics Part II – The Manhattan Project and the Seduction of Technology
This is a special episode of the podcast featuring the second half of our own Barbenheimer, a phenomenon you may remember from the summer of 2023 when both Greta Gerwig’s Barbie movie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenhiemer were in theaters.
Both of these movies highlight themes relevant to our consideration of bioethics, and so, with Oscar season upon us, we are featuring pieces by CBHD staff members exploring the nexus of film and bioethics.
In this episode, CBHD Research Analyst Heather Zeiger presents a piece titled “The Manhattan Project and the Seduction of Technology.”
INTERSECTIONS: "The Manhattan Project and the Seduction of Technology"
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Barbenheimer & Bioethics Part I – On Being Human: Reflections on Greta Gerwig’s Barbie Movie
This is a special episode of the podcast featuring the first half of our own "Barbenheimer," a phenomenon you may remember from the summer of 2023 when both Greta Gerwig’s Barbie Movie and Christopher Nolan’s Oppenheimer were in theaters.
Both of these movies highlight themes relevant to our consideration of bioethics, and so with Oscar season upon us, we are featuring pieces in this episode and the next by CBHD staff members exploring the nexus of film and bioethics.
In this episode, CBHD Research Scholar Anna Vollema presents a piece titled “On Being Human: Reflections on Greta Gerwig’s Barbie Movie.”
INTERSECTIONS: “On Being Human: Reflections on Greta Gerwig's Barbie Movie”
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Christian Psychologist Responds to Megan Best, “Fearfully and Wonderfully Made”
In this talk, Dr. Stephen Greggo, Chair of the Counseling Department and Professor of Counseling at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, part of our host institution, responds to and extends Dr. Megan Best’s presentation, which we featured on the previous episode of the bioethics podcast, on the moral status of the embryo and other ethical issues that arise at the beginning of life, which are especially relevant to the conversations happening in the wake of the Alabama Supreme Court’s recent ruling.
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Megan Best, “Fearfully and Wonderfully Made”
The recent Alabama Supreme Court ruling regarding cryogenically preserved human embryos raises numerous questions about the process of in vitro fertilization (IVF), the moral status of human embryos, the cryopreservation of embryos, the status of embryos as a matter of law, and more.
These are questions that we at The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity have been addressing for 30 years now. We have a number of resources on our website that speak to these and other questions surrounding reproductive technologies like IVF and the issues that arise from them.
For this episode of the podcast, we’ve chosen a presentation by Dr. Megan Best, an Associate Fellow of CBHD, a Researcher at the Institute of Ethics & Society at the University of Notre Dame Australia, and an honorary Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of Sydney.
In the presentation, Dr. Best looks at the moral status of the embryo and other ethical issues that arise at the beginning of life, which are especially relevant to the conversations happening in the wake of the Alabama Supreme Court’s ruling.
I should also add that our next episode will feature a response by a psychologist and Christian counselor on how we can extend this conversation even further into our churches, so stay tuned for that!
Video version of Dr. Best's presentation: YouTube
Alabama, Embryos, and Ethics at cbhd.org
CBHD resources on Reproductive Ethics
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Customer Reviews
Moral injury in time of Covid
Joseph Wiinikka-Lydon presents moral injury as a compare and contrast between the soldier vs healthcare professional as he big is his talk.
I listened intently to his definitions and exploration into MI/PTSD as they relate to war and crisis intervention .
Towards the last 3rd of his lecture he gives away his political bias . How disappointing to have spent the better part of an hour concurring with his presentation on what moral injury is and how it can be addressed then he entranced and traversed into biased territory by making many references to the failures of our country to inform the public with solidarity as well as not being prepared for the o slot of problems that accompany Covid.
Yes, trust was placed on our federal health gurus. They proved to be unsteady and waffling in ways that felt like a betrayal of sorts to us in the trenches and in harms way.
I would have come away with a base of knowledge not recognized ( moral injury) before even as I have spent much time in educating myself on bioethics as it has changed since it’s founding in the United States in the late 60’s as a true discipline to be studied and put into practice.
Perhaps Mr. Wilinka-Lyndon might review the
Structural power system of a Republic.
States rights, its manner of disaster planning, stockpiling for such things as pandemics are NOT dictated by the Federal Governt.
As was witnessed in New York, when help was called out for hospital ship was sent, ventilators were ordered to be delivered with all red tape cut.
There were blocks placed on ACCEPTING help from Washington as a power play by California, Oregon and Washington State. Those states instead took inferior supplies from China.
Having given some facts as to the evolution to this horror of pandemic, let’s be intellectually honest by acknowledging that as these political power struggles emerged into light the nurses, doctors and chaplains were placed in uncharted territory and made to perform in unsavory ways at times due to moral fatigue, policy defects, personal conflicts within community and family hardships and yes, loss of leadership in every corner but at verging degrees. Local failures did more to crush moral holdings as daily conflicts due to unprepared institutions asked Herculean results out of us rarely admitting they created the largess for failure. On the state level here in California we were at a (-) level of stockpiles and information we could count on.
What started out as a cogently well researched talk of what moral injury is compared to PTSD and the contingencies they both share wound up being a wolf in sheep’s clothing.
Moral injury has a place in the table of contents as to its, causes, effects, the need to discern
How it can be evaluated both as an injury and a deficit in character. ( I recommend he read Ordinary Men for some hard facts on injury vs character defects).
I hope he reconsiders his heavy hands in blame.
This pandemic has revealed years of defaults and cheats on the population.
BTW anyone diagnosed with CoVID was relieved of their medical bills. Where did that originate from? Just asking