Dec 1, 2019
How should we prepare for rapid advancement of gene editing technology? This month on Ethics Talk, Dr Sean C. McConnell provides an introduction to gene editing and CRISPR technology and Scott J. Schweikart discusses what prudent governance requires.
Nov 1, 2019
In reconstructive transplantation, quality of life assessments incorporate many variables. Dr Katrina Bramstedt and Dr Ana Iltis discuss the development of QoL assessment tools to help patient-subjects considering reconstructive transplantation.
Oct 1, 2019
Decision making in health care demands that we balance multiple considerations, like quality of life, statistics, and how different options could affect others. Dr Brian Zikmund-Fisher shares his own experience as a patient and introduces how decision science can help us navigate ethically complex health decisions.
Sep 1, 2019
Health professions students often participate in global health outreach programs to benefit resource-poor areas of the world and to gain valuable clinical experience. Ethical questions arise when the sustainability and educational value of these programs is questioned. This episode of Ethics Talk features John Straw and...
Aug 1, 2019
What makes a drug’s price fair? In this episode of Ethics Talk, Dr. Aaron S. Kesselheim helped us talk through drug pricing: what makes it “fair,” how drugs are priced the way they are, and what some current legislative and market-based methods for curbing rising drug prices could look like.