Health Ethics Podcast Bryan Pilkington

If we demand informed consent for individuals, why don't we demand it for all of society? In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks to Dr. Brian Patrick Green about technology and societal informed consent. 

Brian Patrick Green is the director of technology ethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara University and teaches AI ethics in Santa Clara University’s Graduate School of Engineering. His work focuses on AI and ethics, technology ethics in corporations, the ethics of space exploration and use, the ethics of technological manipulation of humans, the ethics of mitigation of and adaptation towards risky emerging technologies, and various aspects of the impact of technology and engineering on human life and society, including the relationship of technology and religion (particularly the Catholic Church). Green is the author of the book Space Ethics and co-author of Ethics in the Age of Disruptive Technologies: An Operational Roadmap.

In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks to Dr. Jamie Carlin Watson, clinical ethicist for the Cleveland Clinic Center for Bioethics. Watson is the author of several books, including: A History and Philosophy of Expertise: The Nature and Limits of Authority (Bloomsbury, 2022), Expertise: A Philosophical Introduction (Bloomsbury 2020), and Moral Expertise: New Essays from Theoretical and Clinical Bioethics, edited with Laura K. Guidry-Grimes (Springer, 2018). https://jamiecarlinwatson.weebly.com/

In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks to Dr. Philip Alberti, Association of American Medical Colleges (AAMC) senior director of health equity research and policy, and founding director of the Center for Health Justice. Dr. Alberti's work is fueled by the belief that solutions to health injustice exist within communities themselves, and that the path to better health goes beyond medical care to working alongside partners across multiple sectors that impact our everyday lives. Dr. Alberti's most recent publication is "A Population Health Impact Pyramid for Health Care" (Milbank Quarterly, 2023 Apr;101(S1):770-794.)

In this episode, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks to Dr. Frederic W. Hafferty, professor of medical education at the Mayo Clinic, in Rochester, Minnesota. He is the author of “Into the Valley: Death and the Socialization of Medical Students” (Yale University Press); “The Changing Medical Profession: An International Perspective” (Oxford University Press), with John McKinlay; “Sociology and Complexity Science: A New Field of Inquiry” (Springer) with Brian Castellani, “The Hidden Curriculum in Health Professions Education” (Dartmouth College Press) with Joseph O’Donnell, “Understanding Professionalism” (Lange) with Wendy Levinson, Katherine Lucy, and Shiphra Ginsburg and “Place and Health as Complex Systems: A Case study and Empirical Test “ (Springer) with Brian Castellani, Rajeev Rajaram, J. Galen Buckwalter and Michael Ball.

In this episode of the COVID Ethics Series Podcast, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Dr. Joel Reynolds, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Disability Studies at Georgetown University, Senior Research Scholar in the Kennedy Institute of Ethics, Senior Bioethics Advisor to and Fellow of The Hastings Center, and Faculty Scholar of The Greenwall Foundation. Dr. Reynolds is especially concerned with the meaning of disability, the issue of ableism, and how philosophical inquiry into each might improve the lives of disabled people and the justness of practices in medicine, science, politics, and law.

Joel Reynolds can be found at https://joelreynolds.me/

Works mentioned:
Binkley, C. E., Reynolds, J. M., & Shuman, A. (2022). From the Eyeball Test to the Algorithm - Quality of Life, Disability Status, and Clinical Decision Making in Surgery. The New England journal of medicine, 387(14), 1325–1328. https://doi.org/10.1056/NEJMms2207408Reynolds, J. M. Three Things Clinicians Should Know About Disability. AMA J Ethics. 2018;20(12):E1181-1187. doi: 10.1001/amajethics.2018.1181Reynolds, J. M., & Wieseler, C. (Eds.). (2022). The Disability Bioethics Reader. Taylor & Francis Group.Reynolds, J. M. (2022). The life worth living: disability, pain, and morality. U of Minnesota Press.

In this episode of the COVID Ethics Series Podcast, Dr. Bryan Pilkington speaks with Charles Binkley, M.D., FACS, HEC-C, the director of Bioethics for the health network’s Central Region, and also an associate professor of Surgery at the Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine on his recent New England Journal of Medicine paper, “From the Eyeball Test to the Algorithm – Quality of Life, Disability Status, and Clinical Decision Making in Surgery,” which contends that more data and an empirical framework involving algorithms would aid doctors, who must seek out more input than just their sole observation of the patient in deciding whether a surgical intervention is “worth it.”

1. Binkley CE, Reynolds JM, Shuman A. From the Eyeball Test to the Algorithm — Quality of Life, Disability Status, and Clinical Decision Making in Surgery. New England Journal of Medicine. 2022;387(14):1325-1328. doi:10.1056/NEJMms2207408