As we begin a third calendar year with COVID-19, it’s hard not to feel anxious and fatigued by the ever-evolving norms of life in a pandemic. So for this month’s playlist, we’re offering not exactly a distraction from the medical news, but rather a different way to engage with it. What philosophical questions are raised by the public health limbo many of us feel we are living in?
What moral claim do outher have over our bodies? Under what circumstances can doctors decide what is best for their patients? When (if ever) is it OK to step in and take charge of someone else's life or body? Is learning about one's genetics itself a medical intervention? And what does it mean to be a disease of the mind versus a disease of the body? Here are some episodes from the archive that tackle these questions and more.
Health and Well-Being
| Episode Title | Guest | Related Content | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
 | Regulating Bodies | Cécile Fabre, Fellow and Tutor in Philosophy, Lincoln College, University of Oxford | Regulating Bodies | |
 | The Limits of Medical Consent | Jodi Halpern, Professor of Bioethics and Medical Humanities, University of California Berkeley | The Limits of Medical Consent | |
 | Paternalism and Health | Agnieszka Jaworska, Associate Professor of Philosopher, University of California Riverside | Liberty vs. Security Health Care: Right or Privilege? Mental Illness and Culture Abortion | |
 | Bioethics: Myths and Realities | David Magnus, Director, Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics | Bioethics – Myths and Realities | |
 | Diseases of the Mind: Philosophy of Psychiatry | Jerome Wakefield, Professor of Social Work and Professor of the Conceptual Foundations of Psychiatry, NYU School of Medicine | Disorders of the Mind - The Philosophy of Psychiatry |