#1258 Nuno Pessoa Gil: Uma Conversa Honesta Sobre Suicídio e Eutanásia Com Um Psiquiatra
THIS INTERVIEW IS IN PORTUGUESE. More»
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#1219 Sami Timimi: A New Approach to Understanding Mental Health, Distress and Neurodiversity
Dr. Sami Timimi is a Consultant Child and Adolescent Psychiatrist. He is also an experienced Psychotherapist. He is also an author who writes from a critical psychiatry perspective on topics relating to mental health and he has published over a hundred and fifty articles and tens of chapters on many subjects including childhood, psychotherapy, behavioral disorders and cross-cultural psychiatry. He has authored 7 books including Searching for Normal: A New Approach to Understanding Mental Health, Distress and Neurodiversity. More»
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#1211 Coleen Murphy - How We Age: The Science of Longevity
Dr. Coleen Murphy is James A. Elkins Jr. Professor in the Life Sciences, and Professor of Molecular Biology and Director of the Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics at Princeton University. She is the author of How We Age: The Science of Longevity. More»
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#1197 Mark Wicclair: Conscientious Objection in Medicine
Dr. Mark Wicclair is Professor of Philosophy Emeritus at West Virginia University and Adjunct Professor of Medicine at the University of Pittsburgh. His primary research and teaching interests are in bioethics and applied ethics. He is the author of Conscientious Objection in Health Care: An Ethical Analysis, Ethics and the Elderly, and more recently, Conscientious Objection in Medicine. More»
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#1184 Maël Lemoine - Philosophy of Physiology: What is Disease, and What is Health?
Dr. Mäel Lemoine is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Bordeaux. His interests include the philosophy of biology, the philosophy of cognitive science, and general philosophy of science. He is the author of Philosophy of Physiology. More»
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#1165 Aubrey de Grey: The Science of Aging and Longevity
Dr. Aubrey de Grey is a biomedical gerontologist. He is the author of The Mitochondrial Free Radical Theory of Aging (1999) and co-author of Ending Aging (2007). Dr. de Grey is known for his view that medical technology may enable human beings alive today not to die from age-related causes. As an amateur mathematician, he has contributed to the study of the Hadwiger–Nelson problem in geometric graph theory, making the first progress on the problem in over 60 years. More»
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#1147 Charlotte Blease - Dr. Bot: Why Doctors Can Fail Us―and How AI Could Save Lives
Dr. Charlotte Blease is an interdisciplinary health researcher at the Department of Women's and Children's Health at Uppsala University, Sweden, and the Digital Psychiatry Division at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at the Harvard Medical School. She is a former Fulbright Scholar and a winner in 2012 of the UK-wide BBC Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers Competition. Dr. Blease has written extensively about the ethics of placebo and nocebo effects. Her research has been profiled by international news outlets including The Washington Post, The Guardian, and The Sydney Morning Herald. Her latest book is Dr. Bot: Why Doctors Can Fail Us―and How AI Could Save Lives. More»
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#1123 Philip Nitschke: Assisted Suicide and the Right to Die
Dr. Philip Nitschke is an Australian humanist, author, former physician, and founder and director of the pro-euthanasia group Exit International. He campaigned successfully to have a legal euthanasia law passed in Australia's Northern Territory and assisted four people in ending their lives before the law was overturned by the Government of Australia. Nitschke was the first doctor in the world to administer a legal, voluntary, lethal injection, after which the patient activated the syringe using a computer. More»
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#1111 Charlotte Blease - The Nocebo Effect: When Words Make You Sick
Dr. Charlotte Blease is an interdisciplinary health researcher at the Department of Women's and Children's Health at Uppsala University, Sweden, and the Digital Psychiatry Division at the Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center at the Harvard Medical School. She is a former Fulbright Scholar and a winner in 2012 of the UK-wide BBC Radio 3's New Generation Thinkers Competition. Dr. Blease has written extensively about the ethics of placebo and nocebo effects. Her research has been profiled by international news outlets including The Washington Post, The Guardian, and The Sydney Morning Herald. She is coauthor of The Nocebo Effect: When Words Make You Sick. More»
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#1087 Susie Gronski (@DrSusieGronski): Men's Sexual Health
Dr. Susie Gronski is a Licensed Doctor of Physical Therapy, Certified Pelvic Rehabilitation Practitioner, AASECT Certified Sexuality Counselor and Educator in Asheville, NC. Dr. Gronski completed her advanced Sexuality Counseling and Educator Certification to bridge the care gap in pelvic therapy services available to men. She is the author of Pelvic Pain: The Ultimate Cock Block: A no bullsh*t guide to help you navigate through pelvic pain. More»