Rationally Speaking #160 - Live at NECSS -- Jacob Appel on "Tackling bioethical dilemmas"

Rationally Speaking Podcast

New York City Skeptics

Society & Culture, Skepticism, Science, Philosophy

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🗓️ 29 May 2016

⏱️ 67 minutes

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Summary

It's the annual live Rationally Speaking episode, taped at the Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism in NYC! This year features returning guest Jacob Appel, a bioethicist (and lawyer, and psychiatrist). Jacob and Julia discuss various bioethical dilemmas, such as: How do you handle parents who want to withhold medical treatment from their child for religious reasons? Is it unethical for American doctors to test new medications in the third-world? And what kinds of principles does a bioethicist use to justify their decisions, beyond "that's just my personal opinion"?

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0:49.2	Welcome to the rationally speaking podcast, where we explore the borderlands between reason and nonsense.
1:00.1	I'm your host, Julia Galeff, and I'm here with a couple hundred other people at the Northeast Conference on Science and Skepticism.
1:07.4	Say hi, guys.
1:16.5	I have a fantastic guest for you. He is actually a return guest from four years ago at the 2012 nexus. His name is Jacob Appel, and he is a bioethicist,
1:23.3	but he is so much more than that. He is also a psychiatrist. He teaches at Mount Sinai Medical Center
1:29.6	and practices both at Mount Sinai and Beth Israel.
1:33.2	He is a lawyer with a JD from Harvard Law School.
1:36.5	And he's also an award-winning novelist, essayist, and playwright.
1:40.8	So he is absurdly over-educated.
1:43.5	Jacob, welcome back to Nexus. Thank you. My fear would you were going to say that
1:47.6	you were reasoning and I was nonsense, misperous the divide.
1:51.0	We fight. So Jacob is in the middle, or he's
1:56.5	currently working on a manuscript for a new book, provisionally titled Harder Choices.
2:02.2	And it explores 101 challenging bioethical dilemmas
2:08.0	that are taken in part from your own professional experience
2:12.0	and carefully anonymized and in part from real stories from the headlines.
2:16.9	Not that your own stories aren't real, but publicly real stories from recent headlines.
2:22.0	And so I've been reading this manuscript.
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