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Ethics Talk

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High-stakes ethics decisions are common in health care. What should you do? Each month, the AMA Journal of Ethics' podcast, Ethics Talk, features interviews with influential experts and leaders on a wide range of cultural, historical, legal, and social topics in health care ethics. We sort through interesting, important, and difficult questions, talk about how to weigh competing values, and offer strategies for navigating real world tough cases.
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Episodes

Ethics Talk: Equal Justice Under Law and Health Equity

This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the journal's editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Christopher Ogolla about equal protection under the US Constitution to advance health equity during this COVID-19 pandemic.

Mar 08, 202116 min

Ethics Talk: Refugee Care and Border Abolition

Dr Hannah Janeway of the Refugee Health Alliance explains why good health care for refugees and asylum seekers at the US southern border might require border abolition.

Feb 24, 202129 min

Ethics Talk: Social Isolation, Loneliness, and COVID-19

This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal's Editor in Chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Dr Carla Perissinotto. Dr Perissinotto is an Associate Professor of Medicine at the University of California San Francisco. She joined us to talk about the health consequences of social isolation and loneliness during the COVID-19 pandemic. To watch the full video interview, head to our site, JournalOfEthics.org , or visit our YouTube channel....

Feb 15, 202126 min

Ethics Talk: Caring for Incarcerated Individuals During COVID-19 Pandemic

This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the journal's editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Dr Brie Williams. Dr Williams is a Professor of Medicine and the Director of Amend at the University of California, San Francisco. She joined us to talk about protecting those among us in and near correctional facilities during a public health emergency. To watch the full video interview, head to our site, JournalOfEthics.org , or visit our YouTube channel....

Feb 15, 202125 min

Ethics Talk: COVID Dermatologic Disparities Go More Than Skin Deep

This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal's editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Dr Jenna Lester. Dr Lester is an Assistant Professor of Dermatology at the University of California, San Francisco. She joined us to talk about the racial and ethnic disparities in dermatologic care and its contributions to health inequities during the COVID-19 pandemic and beyond. To watch the full video interview, head to our site, JournalOfEthics.org , or visit our YouTube cha...

Feb 15, 202119 min

Ethics Talk: Unblinding COVID-19 Vaccine Trials

This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal's Editor in Chief, Dr. Audiey Kao, with Dr. Steven Goodman. Dr. Goodman is Associate Dean of Clinical and Translational Research and Professor of Medicine and of Epidemiology and Population Health at Stanford School of Medicine. He joined us to talk about the implications of unblinding COVID-19 vaccine trials. To watch the full video interview, head to our site, JournalofEthics.org, or visit our YouTube channel....

Feb 15, 202123 min

Ethics Talk: Vaccine Ethics and the Novel Coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2)

This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal's editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Dr Arthur Caplan. Dr Caplan is the Head of the Division of Medical Ethics at New York University, Grossman School of Medicine, and he joined us to talk about the development, production, and use of potential vaccines against the novel coronavirus, or SARS-CoV-2. To watch the full video interview, head to our site, JournalOfEthics.org , or visit our YouTube channel....

Feb 15, 202127 min

Ethics Talk: Public Health, Personal Liberties, and COVID-19

This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal's editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Professor Lawrence Gostin. Professor Gostin is the founding O'Neill Chair in Global Health Law at Georgetown University and a Professor of Public Health at Johns Hopkins University. He joined us to talk about the challenges of balancing public health ethics and personal civil liberties during the COVID-19 pandemic. To watch the full video interview, head to our site, JournalOfEth...

Feb 15, 202133 min

Ethics Talk: Plight of Workers in Low Wage Jobs and COVID-19

This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal's editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Dr Donald Tomaskovic-Devey. Dr Tomaskovic-Devey is the Executive Director of the Center for Employment Equity at University of Massachusetts Amherst. He joined us to talk about the social and economic hurdles confronted by those among us in low-wage jobs during the COVID-19 pandemic. To watch the full video interview, head our site, JournalOfEthics.org , or visit our YouTube chan...

Feb 15, 202133 min

Ethics Talk: Revitalizing Democracy During COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond

This episode is an audio version of video interviews conducted by the Journal's editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with American Academy of Arts and Sciences members Antonia Hernández, Wallace Jefferson, and Eric Liu. They joined us to discuss the AAS Commission on the practice of democratic citizenship, which is charged with developing recommendations aimed at restoring trust in our democracy. To watch the full video interviews, head to our site, JournalOfEthics.org, or visit our YouTube channel....

Feb 15, 202152 min

Ethics Talk: Digital Spread of Pandemic Misinformation and Lies

This episode is an audio version of video interviews conducted by the Journal's Editor in Chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Dr Vish Viswanath. Dr Viswanath is a Professor of Health Communication in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. He joined us to talk about the digital spread of health misinformation and falsehoods during the COVID-19 pandemic. To watch the full video interview, head to our site, JournalOfEthics.org, or visit our YouTube...

Feb 15, 202140 min

Ethics Talk: Spread of Anti-Asian Racism and Xenophobia During COVID-19 Pandemic

This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal's editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Dr Jennifer Ho. Dr Ho is the Director for the Center of Humanities and the Arts and a Professor of Ethnic Studies at University of Colorado, Boulder. She joined us to talk about understanding and combating the spread of anti-Asian racism and xenophobia during the COVID-19 pandemic. To watch the full video interview, head to our site, JournalOfEthics.org , or visit our YouTube cha...

Feb 15, 202127 min

Ethics Talk: White Coats for Black Lives

This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal's editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Drs. Joniqua Ceasar and Dorothy Charles of WhiteCoats4BlackLives. They joined us to talk about systemic racism, police brutality, and the role of health professionals in securing racial justice and health equity. To watch the full video interview, head to our site, JournalOfEthics.org, or visit our YouTube channel.

Feb 15, 202136 min

Ethics Talk: Immunity Status, Social Privilege, and the Novel Coronavirus

This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal's editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Dr Kathryn Olivarius. Dr Olivarius is an Assistant Professor of History at Stanford University. She joined us to talk about how yellow fever epidemics during the antebellum South provide a historical lens to examine power asymmetries and health inequities in the COVID-19 era. To watch the full video interview, head to our site, JournalOfEthics.org , or visit our YouTube channel....

Feb 15, 202126 min

Ethics Talk: COVID-19 Vaccine Mandates and Solutions to Avoid Relying on Them

This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal's editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Professor Debbie Kaminer. Professor Kaminer is a professor in the Department of Law at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College. She joined us to talk about vaccine mandates and other policy solutions to promote herd immunity against COVID-19. To watch the full video interview, head to our site, JournalOfEthics.org , or visit our YouTube channel....

Feb 15, 202124 min

Ethics Talk: Advance Care Planning and End-of-life Care in the COVID Era

This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal's editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Dr Helen Chapple. Dr Chapple is a Professor of Nursing, Ethics, and Interdisciplinary Studies at Creighton University. Dr Chapple joined us to talk about challenges and opportunities to elicit and honor patients' health care preferences during the COVID-19 pandemic. To watch the full video interview, head to our site, JournalOfEthics.org , or visit our YouTube channel....

Feb 15, 202128 min

Ethics Talk: Crushing Medical Debt During COVID

This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal's editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Allison Sesso, Executive Director of RIP Medical Debt, a 501(c)3 that works to eliminate medical debt for those at or near the federal poverty level. She joined us to discuss the devastating impacts of medical debt exacerbated by the coronavirus pandemic and how RIP Medical Debt helps. To watch the full video interview, head to our site, JournalOfEthics.org, or visit our YouTube ...

Feb 15, 202118 min

Ethics Talk: Polling, Politics, and Health Policy in the COVID-19 Era

This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal's editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Dr Mollyann Brodie. Dr Brodie is the Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer at the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation. She joined us to talk about the science of polling, public opinions on COVID-19, and politically divergent views on policy options to achieve universal health care coverage. To watch the full video interview, head to our site, JournalOfEthics.org , o...

Feb 15, 202132 min

Ethics Talk: COVID-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in the Health Care Workforce

This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal's Editor in Chief, Dr. Audiey Kao, with Dr. Arthur Caplan. Dr. Caplan is Head of the Division of Medical Ethics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, and he joined us to talk about hesitancy among U.S. health care workers to take COVID19 vaccines. To watch the full video interview, head to our site, JournalofEthics.org, or check out our YouTube channel.

Feb 15, 202113 min

Ethics Talk: Pandemic Poetry, Present and Profane

This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal's editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Dr Rafael Campo. Dr Campo is an Associate Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Poetry Section Editor of the Journal of the American Medical Association . He talked with us about the healing value of poetry during the current COVID-19 pandemic. To watch the full video interview, head to our site, JournalOfEthics.org , or visit our YouTube channel....

Feb 15, 202127 min

Ethics Talk: Equitable Allocation of SARS-CoV-2 Vaccine

This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal's editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Dr Ruth Faden. Dr Faden is a Professor of Biomedical Ethics at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. She joined us to talk about how to fairly distribute any potential SARS-CoV-2 vaccine when supply is limited. To watch the full video interview, head to our site, JournalOfEthics.org , or visit our YouTube channel....

Feb 15, 202125 min

Ethics Talk: Virtue Ethics, Moral Authority, and COVID-19

This episode is an audio version of a video created by the Journal's editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, in which he presents an interview he conducted with the late Dr Edmund Pellegrino 20 years ago. To watch the full video interview, head to our site, JournalOfEthics.org , or visit our YouTube channel.

Feb 15, 202117 min

Ethics Talk: COVID-19 in US Detention Camps

This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the journal's editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Professor Holly Cooper. Professor Cooper is Co-Director of the Immigration Law Clinic at the University of California Davis School of Law. She joined us to talk about the dangerous living conditions for children and adults in U.S. immigration detention facilities. To watch the full video interview, head to our site, JournalOfEthics.org , or visit our YouTube channel....

Feb 15, 202126 min

Ethics Talk: Blowing the Whistle on ICE or US Immigration and Customs Enforcement

This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal's editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Azadeh Shahshahani, Legal & Advocacy Director at Project South, which recently filed a whistleblower complaint with the Department of Homeland Security Office of Inspector General documenting serious health and safety violations at a US Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention center. To watch the full video interview, head to our site JournalOfEthics.org, or visit our Y...

Feb 15, 202116 min

Ethics Talk: Embodied History, Health Justice, and COVID-19

This episode is an audio version of a two-part video interview conducted by the Journal's editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Dr Nancy Krieger. Dr Krieger is a Professor of Social Epidemiology in the Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health. She joined us to talk about the population health impacts of historical injustices and structural racism. To watch the full video interviews, head to our site, JournalOfEthics.org , or visit our YouTube c...

Feb 15, 202144 min

Ethics Talk: Caring for Homeless People During COVID-19 Pandemic

This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal's editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Bobby Watts, the Chief Executive Officer at the National Health Care for the Homeless Council. He joined us to talk about the pressing need to care for the homeless population during the COVID-19 pandemic. To watch the full video interview, head to our site, JournalOfEthics.org , or visit our YouTube channel.

Feb 15, 202129 min

Ethics Talk: COVID-19 Pandemic and the Global Climate Crisis

This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal's editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Dr Andrew Jameton. Dr Jameton is a Professor in the Department of Health Promotion, Social and Behavioral Health at the University of Nebraska. He joined us to talk about the global health threat posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and its intersection with the climate crisis. To watch the full video interview, head to our site, JournalOfEthics.org , or visit our YouTube channel....

Feb 15, 202127 min

Ethics Talk: Politics, Policy, and COVID Cartoons

This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal's editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Matt Wuerker. Matt Wuerker is the staff cartoonist for Politico and the winner of the 2012 Pulitzer Prize in editorial cartooning. He joined us to talk about his artistic process in creating cartoons that speak to matters of policy and politics arising from the COVID-19 pandemic. To watch the full video interview, head to our site, JournalOfEthics.org , or visit our YouTube chann...

Feb 15, 202115 min

Ethics Talk: Who Are You Voting For, Doc? I'm Voting For You.

This episode is an audio version of a video interview conducted by the Journal's editor in chief, Dr Audiey Kao, with Dr Alister Martin. Dr Martin is an Emergency Medicine Physician, faculty at the Center for Social Justice and Health Equity at Massachusetts General Hospital and Executive Director of VotER. He joined us to talk about helping patients get registered to vote during the COVID-19 pandemic. To watch the full video interview, head to our site, JournalOfEthics.org, or visit our YouTube...

Feb 15, 202119 min
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