Healthcare and Healthcare Ethics in the Trump Era
If such changes as limiting coverage of preexisting conditions, outlawing abortion, and setting caps on healthcare benefits occur, the doctor-patient relationship will change, an ethicist predicts. (Source: Medscape Business of Medicine Podcast)
Source: Medscape Business of Medicine Podcast - January 11, 2017 Category: Health Management Authors: Medscape Source Type: podcasts
Podcast: An ethics conundrum from the Nazi era, baby dinosaur development, and a new test for mad cow disease
This week, we chat about how long dinosaur eggs take —or took—to hatch, a new survey that confirms the world’s hot spots for lightning, and replenishing endangered species with feral pets with Online News Editor Catherine Matacic. Plus, Science’s Alexa Billow talks to Megan Gannon about the dilemma presented by tissue samples collected during the Nazi era. And Sarah Crespi discusses a new test for mad cow disease with Kelly Servick.
Listen to previous podcasts.
[Image: NASA/flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook] (Source: Science Magazine Podcast)
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - January 5, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
Podcast: An ethics conundrum from the Nazi era, baby dinosaur development, and a new test for mad cow disease
This week, we chat about how long dinosaur eggs take—or took—to hatch, a new survey that confirms the world’s hot spots for lightning, and replenishing endangered species with feral pets with Online News Editor Catherine Matacic. Plus, Science’s Alexa Billow talks to Megan Gannon about the dilemma presented by tissue samples collected during the Nazi era. And Sarah Crespi discusses a new test for mad cow disease with Kelly Servick. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: NASA/flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook] (Source: Science Magazine Podcast)
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - January 5, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Science Magazine Source Type: podcasts
Podcast: An ethics conundrum from the Nazi era, baby dinosaur development, and a new test for mad cow disease
This week, we chat about how long dinosaur eggs take —or took—to hatch, a new survey that confirms the world’s hot spots for lightning, and replenishing endangered species with feral pets with Online News Editor Catherine Matacic. Plus, Science’s Alexa Billow talks to Megan Gannon about the dilemma presented by tissue samples collected durin g the Nazi era. And Sarah Crespi discusses a new test for mad cow disease with Kelly Servick. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: NASA/flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook] (Source: Science Magazine Podcast)
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - January 5, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
Podcast: An ethics conundrum from the Nazi era, baby dinosaur development, and a new test for mad cow disease
This week, we chat about how long dinosaur eggs take —or took—to hatch, a new survey that confirms the world’s hot spots for lightning, and replenishing endangered species with feral pets with Online News Editor Catherine Matacic. Plus, Science’s Alexa Billow talks to Megan Gannon about the dilemma presented by tissue samples collected during the Nazi era. And Sarah Crespi discusses a new test for mad cow disease with Kelly Servick. Listen to previous podcasts. [Image: NASA/flickr; Music: Jeffrey Cook] (Source: Science Magazine Podcast)
Source: Science Magazine Podcast - January 5, 2017 Category: Science Authors: Science Tags: Scientific Community Source Type: podcasts
Christmas 2016 - War
In this year's Christmas BMJ 2016 podcasts, we ’ve been discussing morality, compassion, truth. In this final one, it's time for war.
After the second world war, there was an attempt to bring a moral sense to conflict - and Julian Sheather, specialist adviser on ethics and human rights to the BMA, and author of the christmas editorial “medi cine... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - December 23, 2016 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Christmas 2016 - War
In this year's Christmas BMJ 2016 podcasts, we’ve been discussing morality, compassion, truth. In this final one, it's time for war.
After the second world war, there was an attempt to bring a moral sense to conflict - and Julian Sheather, specialist adviser on ethics and human rights to the BMA, and author of the christmas editorial “medicine under fire” is worried about the retrenchment of those ideals.
http://www.bmj.com/content/355/bmj.i6464
Peter Wever is a doctor in The Netherlands, and has been uncovering the story of the number 10 stationary hospital, in st-omer in northern france - a British army hospital ...
Source: The BMJ Podcast - December 23, 2016 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
The Four Major Goals of Life revisited
I wrote about the four major goals in life on my psychology today blog quite some time back and want to revisit it today in the light of reading Susan Wolf‘s ‘Meaning in life and why it matters’ which is a very accessible and engaging, as well as a short, read.
A Good Dog Can Bring Happiness to Your Life (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Susan Wolf claims that there are two usual suspects when it comes to explaining our major striving and actions. The reason why we do something may be to enhance our self-interest (the egoistic principle) or the reasons may lie in ethical and moral considerations (the altruistic p...
Source: The Mouse Trap - December 3, 2016 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: sandygautam Tags: happiness motivation goals meaning Morality motivations success Source Type: podcasts
Cancer drugs, survival, and ethics
Despite considerable investment and innovation, chemotherapy drugs have had little effect on survival in adults with metastatic cancer.
In this podcast, Navjoyt Ladher, clinical editor for The BMJ, talks to Peter Wise, former consultant physician and senior lecturer Imperial College School of Medicine, and author of a recent analysis on... (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - November 11, 2016 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ talk medicine Source Type: podcasts
Cancer drugs, survival, and ethics
Despite considerable investment and innovation, chemotherapy drugs have had little effect on survival in adults with metastatic cancer.
In this podcast, Navjoyt Ladher, clinical editor for The BMJ, talks to Peter Wise, former consultant physician and senior lecturer Imperial College School of Medicine, and author of a recent analysis on TheBMJ.com
Read the full analysis:
http://www.bmj.com/content/355/bmj.i5792 (Source: The BMJ Podcast)
Source: The BMJ Podcast - November 11, 2016 Category: General Medicine Authors: BMJ Group Source Type: podcasts
