Medical ethics
Shadow of War - A Tainted Anatomy. Audio, 42 minutes
Why is the brain of a Scottish soldier in a German archive, 80 years after his death?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Drama on 4. In Good Faith. Audio, 44 minutes
A dispute over ending life-support for a brain-stem dead child is set to destroy a family.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
File on 4 Investigates. Doctor of Deception. Audio, 37 minutes
The story of a doctor who couldn’t be trusted and the patients who faced the consequences
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Screening Dilemma. Audio, 28 minutes
Could good intentions to detect illnesses early actually be causing more harm?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted4 October 2023
Science In Action. Human Genome Editing - Promise and Peril. Audio, 35 minutes
Human Genome Editing: curing genetic disease and ensuring it's safe and available to all.
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Bound to the Mast. Audio, 28 minutes
Can ‘no’ mean ‘yes’ in mental health?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Is a pig-heart transplant an ethical procedure? Newshour. Audio, 00:06:37
A man has been given a genetically-modified pig heart in the first transplant of its kind
- AttributionBBC
- Posted12 January 2022
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- Posted11 January 2022
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- Posted4 August 2021
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- Posted28 July 2021
Culture by Al Smith. Audio, 45 minutes
Al Smith's dystopian vision of a world where antibiotics have ceased to work.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4 Extra
- Available for 1 month
The Forum. The woman whose cells changed medical history. Audio, 40 minutes
The story of Henrietta Lacks who unwittingly left behind an extraordinary medical legacy
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Rethink. Pascal Soriot: Rethinking Medical Co-operation. Audio, 8 minutes
CEO of AstraZeneca, Soriot praises the example shown by scientists working together.
- AttributionBBC Sounds
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted10 July 2020
A Cure At What Cost? Audio, 28 minutes
Tom Chivers considers the moral and ethical dilemmas around our response to coronavirus.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Stem Cell Hard Sell. Audio, 37 minutes
Lesley Curwen investigates the hope, hype and potential harm of stem cell treatments
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted19 November 2019
Denis donated his body to science but there is now a shortage of cadavers for medical students. Breakfast. Video, 00:03:37
Denis' body helped up to 10 million patients by educating doctors of the future
- AttributionBBC One
- Posted22 October 2019
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- Posted3 October 2019
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- Posted6 September 2019
Discovery. Patient Undone. Audio, 27 minutes
Prof Deborah Bowman reveals how a cancer diagnosis transformed her view of medical ethics
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
- Attribution
- Posted19 August 2019
Patient Undone. Audio, 28 minutes
Prof Deborah Bowman reveals how a cancer diagnosis has changed her view of medical ethics.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
