On this week’s show our topic is the practical ethics of organ donation. We start by asking “should you be made to sign the organ donor register?” We then discuss the ethical and practical implications for allowing people to sell their organs in a free Read More …
Tag: medical ethics
Idle Talk 09 12 12 “self-inflicted health conditions”
This week’s topic is self-inflicted health conditions and the right to treatment. Should, for example, smokers get lower priority treatment from the NHS because their illness is a result of their choice to smoke? To what degree is it reasonable to hold patients responsible for there Read More …
Idle Talk 09 09 12 “From Michael Mcintyre to medical ethics”
A wide ranging and strange assortment of topics this week including: Is Rhodders’s philosophy degree worthless? Doing stand up in Brighton, why comedians hate Michael McIntyre, Frankie Boyle, comedians publicly supporting political parties, political discussion is impossible, debunking stupid Facebook health scare-cold water and leading Read More …