In this episode we speak with Dr. Rachel Fraser, Associate Professor of Philosophy at MIT, about whether experiences of oppression can yield special insights, whether these insights can be shared with members of dominant groups, and what implic...

In this episode, we speak with two leading bioethics scholars about the state of bioethics today. Dr. Emily Largent is the Emanuel and Robert Hart Associate Professor of Medical Ethics and Health Policy and the Chief of the Division of Medical ...

In this episode, we speak with Dr. David Thorstad: Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Vanderbilt University, Senior Research Affiliate at the Global Priorities Institute, and author of the blog, Reflective Altruism. We discuss existe...

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Rochelle Walensky, former director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). We discuss the state of American public health infrastructure, the challenges it faces, and what we can do to improve...

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Quayshawn Spencer, Robert S. Blank Presidential Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Pennsylvania, about what race is, why he’s a radical racial pluralist, and what this could imply in scienc...

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Jeff McMahan, Emeritus Sekyra and White’s Professor of Moral Philosophy at Oxford University, about whether germline gene editing is ever morally preferable to embryo selection and whether and when we should c...

In this episode, we speak with researcher and physician Dr. James Diao about when and why race should be included or excluded from clinical algorithms. We focus on his work evaluating the implications of including race as a variable in two clin...

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Sarah McGrath, professor of philosophy at Princeton University. We discuss whether and when it makes sense to defer to others about the answers to moral questions, whether moral deference is any less appropria...

In this episode, we speak with Dr. David Wendler, Head of the Section on Research Ethics in the Department of Bioethics at the National Institutes of Health Clinical Center and philosopher by training. We discuss the ethics of pediatric researc...

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Richard Leiter, senior palliative care physician at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and Brigham and Women’s Hospital and assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. We discuss the state of end-of-l...

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Danielle Allen, professor of political philosophy, ethics, and public policy at Harvard and Director of the Allen Lab for Democracy Renovation, about the extent to which we should involve laypeople in decision...

In this episode, we speak with Marc Lipsitch, epidemiologist and professor at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and Director of the Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics, about what lessons we should take from the COVID-19 pandem...

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Sally Haslanger, Ford Professor of Philosophy and Women’s and Gender Studies at MIT, about what norms are, how we can know when they need to be changed, and how we should change them.(00:00) Our introdu...

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Jennifer Blumenthal-Barby, a philosopher and bioethicist at Baylor College of Medicine, about why she thinks clinicians are often permitted, and even required, to use insights from behavioral economics and dec...

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Jeff Sebo, a philosopher and bioethicist at New York University, about what it would mean to take seriously the possibility that non-human animals (including insects) and future AI systems might matter morally...

In this episode, we speak with Dr. Christopher Robichaud, Director of Pedagogical Innovation at Harvard’s Edmond and Lily Safra Center for Ethics, about whether and how we can teach scientists, doctors, and other professionals to be more ethica...

In this episode, we speak with Professor Holly Fernandez Lynch, a lawyer and bioethicist in the Department of Medical Ethics and Health Policy at the University of Pennsylvania and founder and co-chair of

Content warning: This episode contains discussions of suicide, suicidal ideation, and symptoms of mental illness. If you or someone you know or love is struggling, please seek help. You can call or text 988 to reach the suicide and crisis lifel...

In this episode, we interview Dr. Govind Persad, an expert on resource allocation whose work influenced COVID-19 allocation policies, about how we should allocate scarce medical resources, what stood in the way of optimal allocation during the ...

In this episode, we interview Dr. Robert Steel about how we should assess the risks and benefits of research, what justifies research oversight, and whether there should be upper limits on the amount of risk research participants are exposed to...

Welcome to Bio(un)ethical, the podcast where we question existing norms in medicine, science, and public health.In this episode, we (Leah Pierson and Sophie Gibert) introduce the podcast and talk about why we started it and what we hope ...