Arthur Caplan: Medicine’s Toughest Ethical Questions Health & Veritas

Howie and Harlan are joined by Arthur Caplan, Drs. William F. and Virginia Connolly Mitty Professor of Bioethics and founding head of the division of medical ethics at NYU Grossman School of Medicine, to discuss the ethical failings of the pharmaceutical industry and how a community-focused ethos prioritizing justice and protection of the vulnerable would have reshaped the COVID response. Harlan reports on developments in synthetic proteins. Howie recognizes World Malaria Day.
Links:
Division of Medical Ethics: NYU Langone
“‘You’ve got bad blood’: The horror of the Tuskegee syphilis experiment”
“When Evil Intrudes”
“Surgeons Perform World’s First Combined Heart Pump And Pig Kidney Transplant—Latest Breakthrough Involving Pig Organ”
“Biden trolls Trump on injecting bleach anniversary”
Frequently Asked Questions on Oregon’s Death With Dignity Act (DWDA)
“A quiet revolution in organ transplant ethics”
Center for Healthcare Ethics: The Provider-Patient Relationship
“Ex-Stanford President’s AI Drug Startup Pulls In $1 Billion in Commitments”
“Protein wrangler, serial entrepreneur, and community builder: Inside David Baker’s brain”
Baker Lab: Home Page
“Atomically accurate de novo design of single-domain antibodies”
National Cancer Institute: Definition of a Monoclonal Antibody
Malaria: World Health Organization 
CDC: Malaria’s Impact Worldwide
UNICEF: Ten things you didn’t know about malaria
Yale Innovation Summit 2024
Link for the Health & Veritas Livestream at the Yale Innovation Summit
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