The Bioethics Podcast

The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity | Year End Update

Executive Director of The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity addresses podcast listeners with Center news.

Why Humanness is the Key to Bioethics

The following podcast was originally recorded at The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity 25th annual conference, Bioethics & Being Human . In this opening session of the conference, Dennis P. Hollinger, PhD delivers a presentation: "Framing the Discussion: Why Humanness is the Key to Bioethics."

Who Will Be the Last Human? Or Are We Even Still Human?

Disaster Bioethics

Opportunity in the Midst of Pandemic

We are living in extraordinary times. For most of the world, the global COVID-19 pandemic is at the forefront of people’s minds. The accompanying uncertainty has been almost palpable, and people are craving every bit of information that they can get their hands on. With most sporting events and other activities cancelled or delayed, the “armchair coaches” have had to turn to other interests; now most people have become “armchair epidemiologists,” debating the merits of mask wearing and physical ...

An Interview With Wilson Jeremiah

In this episode the Executive Director of CBHD, Matthew Eppinette, PhD, interviews the newest Robert D. Orr Fellow, Wilson Jeremiah, MA.

Thinking Theologically About Bioethics

Can bioethics be Christian? In the following commentary, we try to offer one perspective on how aspects of Christian theology can inform bioethics. We do not try to engage any one specific bioethical issue from a Christian perspective. Nor do we try to offer any new, groundbreaking way of thinking about bioethics from a theological perspective. Much more modestly, we seek to prime the pump by offering six loosely related points of entry into how to think about bioethics from a distinctively Chri...

Plagues, Parables, and Pundits

This episode of The Bioethics Podcast features an article originally posted on EverydayBioethics.org written by Michael Cox, PhD.

The Old Testament and Bioethics: An Interview with Mario Tafferner

In this episode the Interim Director of CBHD, Matthew Eppinette, PhD, interviews former Robert D. Orr Fellow, Mario Tafferner, MA about the intersection of his studies in Old Testament and Bioethics.

Moral Agency in Balance: The Physician-Patient Relationship

This episode features an article originally published in CBHD's publication, Dignitas, by Dr. Susan Haack in which she explores the dynamics of the physician-patient relationship as she seeks to understand the continuum of possibilities between overt physician paternalism and unbridled patient autonomy.

New Ethical Challenges in Triage

The resulting dilemma has yet to be even raised let alone considered: what resource allocation decisions are ethical for a healthcare system to make in this scenario? Ethicists must now consider the difficult issues of a groundbreaking third type of triage in civilian Mass Casualty Events (MCEs), in addition to intake and reverse triage. This address was originally given at CBHD's 2015 Annual Conference, Science, Research, and the Limits of Bioethics . This podcast is a resource provided by The ...

The Ethics of Emergency Consent Research

The following address by Christine Toevs will briefly review the history of medical research and the regulations surrounding emergency consent research, and discuss the ethics of research in a population that may not truly be informed of the risks and benefits, or even of the research itself. This address was originally given at CBHD's 2015 Annual Conference, Science, Research, and the Limits of Bioethics . This podcast is a resource provided by The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity...

Bioethics in Transition: Framing the Discussion

Clinical Ethics Dilemmas: Experiencing Differences Between European and American End-of-Life Care

The Cult of Human Health and the Key to Flourishing in Sickness: Excerpts from 'Human Flourishing—In Sickness and in Health'

Clinical Ethics Dilemmas: Capitulation to a Patient’s Demands

Clinical Ethics Dilemmas: How Does the Doctor Decide Between Cost and Care?

Framing the Discussion - "Reclaiming Dignity in a Culture of Commodification"

Grey Matters: Turning a Blind Eye: An Ethical Assessment

Editorial: Human Dignity and Biomedicine

Grey Matters: The Origami Brain: From Neural Folds to Neuroethics

Paul Ramsey and Preconceptive Eugenics

Adolescent Confidentiality: An Uneasy Truce

Doing No Harm To Hippocrates: Reality and Virtual Reality in Ethics Education

The Ethics of a Brave New World: A Response to ‘Baby-Making'

A Christian Framework for Engaging in Science Policy

Genetic Testing: Ethics, Regulation, and Online Accessibility

Baby-Making: The Fractured Fulfillment of Huxley's Brave New World, Part II

Commentary: Six Years Later and Katrina Still Engenders Bioethical Debate

Baby-Making: The Fractured Fulfillment of Huxley's Brave New World, Part I