Medical ethics
Discovery. Patient Undone. Audio, 27 minutes
Prof Deborah Bowman reveals how a cancer diagnosis transformed her view of medical ethics
- AttributionBBC World Service
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- 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
The Documentary Podcast. Solving Alzheimer's: Living and Dying with Alzheimer's. Audio, 28 minutes
How best to live and die with dementia and the difficult choices people have to make
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
In the Child's Best Interests. Audio, 37 minutes
How and when should the decision be made to end the life of a critically ill child?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Documentary Podcast. The New World Of Reproduction. Audio, 27 minutes
Forty years after the first IVF baby, Krupa Padhy explores how human beings procreate
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
National Health Stories. Cradle. Audio, 15 minutes
How the NHS responded to the birth of the first test tube baby in 1978.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
National Health Stories. Kidney Dilemma. Audio, 15 minutes
How the life-saving 'artificial kidney' machine brought moral dilemmas in its wake.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Four Thought. Screened out? Audio, 15 minutes
Felicity Boardman discusses genetic screening for 'serious conditions'.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The First Heart Transplant: Beat by Beat. Audio, 30 minutes
Surgeon Stephen Westaby explores the events leading up to the first heart transplant.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Organ Beauty Pageant. Audio, 38 minutes
Is it fair to find your own living organ donor on Facebook? Lesley Curwen investigates.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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5 Live Investigates. Cancer 'Cure' Investigation. Audio, 47 minutes
An unlicensed and unproven treatment being illegally sold as a possible cure for cancer.
- AttributionBBC Radio 5 Live
- Available for over a year
The Essential. The Why Factor: Assisted Death. Audio, 6 minutes
Is it ever right to take a life? Mike Williams explores the dilemmas of assisted death
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Heads Up! The First Head Transplant. Audio, 28 minutes
A doctor wants to perform the first human head transplant. Will US surgeons license him?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Placebo Problem. Audio, 28 minutes
Geoff Watts explores the phenomenon of the nocebo effect and its implications for medicine
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Four Thought. Series 4, Making Drugs Today. Audio, 15 minutes
Sunil Shaunak argues that pharmaceuticals could, and should, build social capital.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Is Journalism Healthy? Audio, 28 minutes
Can an NHS ethics code for medics, managers and public relations staff ever work?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
The Lobotomists. Audio, 28 minutes
Why were tens of thousands of people lobotomised in the 1940s and 50s in the UK and US?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
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Crossing Continents. Searching for an Alzheimer's Cure in Colombia. Audio, 30 minutes
Does the key to curing Alzheimer's lie with a poor extended family in Medellin, Colombia?
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
Between Life and Death. Video, 51 minutes
Provocative documentary following the doctors who can now interrupt the death process.
- AttributionBBC
- Available for over a year
Heart and Soul. Moral Medicine – Plastic and Cosmetic Surgery. Audio, 26 minutes
Discussion of the ethics of plastic and cosmetic surgery
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Heart and Soul. Moral Medicine – Assisted Suicide. Audio, 26 minutes
Issues surrounding assisted suicide and euthansia
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Heart and Soul. Moral Medicine – Fertility Treatments. Audio, 26 minutes
Discussion of issues arising from fertility treatments
- AttributionBBC World Service
- Available for over a year
Letter from America by Alistair Cooke. Life, Death and Medical Research. Audio, 15 minutes
A coma patient makes Alistair Cooke consider the complex ethics of medical advancement.
- AttributionBBC Radio 4
- Available for over a year
