Podcast Episodes featuring Jeffrey Kahn
News Society & Culture Non-Profit Business News Commentary science culture leadership politics business
Gene Editing Governance & Dr. He Jiankui, with Jeffrey Kahn
Carnegie Council Podcasts - December 02, 2019 14:56 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 57 ratingsJeffrey Kahn, director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute for Bioethics, discusses the many governance issues connected to gene editing. Plus, he gives a first-hand account of an historic conference in Hong Kong last year in which Dr. He Jiankui shared his research on the birth of the world's...
Gene Editing Governance & Dr. He Jiankui, with Jeffrey Kahn
Carnegie Council Podcasts - December 02, 2019 14:56 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 57 ratingsJeffrey Kahn, director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute for Bioethics, discusses the many governance issues connected to gene editing. Plus, he gives a first-hand account of an historic conference in Hong Kong last year in which Dr. He Jiankui shared his research on the birth of the world's...
Gene Editing Governance & Dr. He Jiankui, with Jeffrey Kahn
Carnegie Council Podcasts - December 02, 2019 14:56 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 57 ratingsJeffrey Kahn, director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute for Bioethics, discusses the many governance issues connected to gene editing. Plus, he gives a first-hand account of an historic conference in Hong Kong last year in which Dr. He Jiankui shared his research on the birth of the world's...
Gene Editing Governance & Dr. He Jiankui, with Jeffrey Kahn
Carnegie Council Podcasts - December 02, 2019 14:56 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 11 ratingsJeffrey Kahn, director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute for Bioethics, discusses the many governance issues connected to gene editing. Plus, he gives a first-hand account of an historic conference in Hong Kong last year in which Dr. He Jiankui shared his research on the birth of the world's...
Gene Editing Governance & Dr. He Jiankui, with Jeffrey Kahn
Carnegie Council Podcasts - December 02, 2019 14:56 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 11 ratingsJeffrey Kahn, director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute for Bioethics, discusses the many governance issues connected to gene editing. Plus, he gives a first-hand account of an historic conference in Hong Kong last year in which Dr. He Jiankui shared his research on the birth of the world's...
Gene Editing Governance & Dr. He Jiankui, with Jeffrey Kahn
Carnegie Council Podcasts - December 02, 2019 14:56 - 33 minutes ★★★★ - 11 ratingsJeffrey Kahn, director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute for Bioethics, discusses the many governance issues connected to gene editing. Plus, he gives a first-hand account of an historic conference in Hong Kong last year in which Dr. He Jiankui shared his research on the birth of the world's...
Midday On Ethics With Dr. Jeffrey Kahn: The High Cost Of Life-Saving Medicine
Midday - September 11, 2019 17:55 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsToday, Midday on Ethics. Prescriptions can be expensive, we know that. But what happens when a life-saving drug costs millions of dollars every year to keep one patient alive?Most patients can’t afford that, and neither can many employer and union-based insurance plans. Drug companies say the old...
Midday on Ethics With Dr. Jeffrey Kahn: Competitive Genetics?
Midday - May 10, 2019 19:23 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsIt’s Midday on Ethics. An international court has ruled that South African Olympic champion Caster Semenya and other female athletes with naturally high levels of testosterone will need to take drugs that lower their hormone levels to compete in some women’s races.Dr. Jeffrey Kahn, director of th...
Midday on Ethics with Dr. Jeffrey Kahn: the Debate Surrounding Death with Dignity Laws
Midday - March 13, 2019 20:17 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsLast Thursday, the Maryland House of Delegates passed a bill that would allow terminally ill patients with a prognosis of less than six months to live to obtain prescription drugs that they could choose to take to end their own lives. A similar bill is moving through the state Senate. This is the...
Midday on Ethics with Dr. Jeffrey Kahn: Tinkering with Human Genes?
Midday - January 04, 2019 19:27 - 33 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsIt’s Midday on Ethics with Dr. Jeffrey Kahn of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics.Today we’ll explore some of the ethical issues raised by the explosive case of a Chinese researcher named He Jiankui. In late November, He announced the birth of twin girls, Lulu and Nana, who, he says,...
Midday on Ethics with Dr. Jeffrey Kahn: What Is Death?
Midday - July 26, 2018 19:46 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsIt’s another edition of Midday on Ethics. Today we explore some ethical questions pulled straight from the headlines. We’ll begin with the story of Jahi McMath, a 13-year -old girl in California who was declared dead in late 2013, after a routine surgery went wrong. Then, last month, 4\u189\u yea...
Midday On Ethics with Dr. Jeffrey Kahn: Vaccination Matters
Midday - January 24, 2018 20:27 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsHow are you feeling today? Flu-ish maybe? If so, you’re not alone. We keep hearing that this is the worst flu season in years. And if you’ve had this year’s flu, that’s no doubt how it feels. In fact, it is probably the worst flu season in the past three years, and we’ll have to wait until it’s o...
Midday on Ethics with Dr. Jeffrey Kahn: Unintended Consequences of Gene Editing?
Midday - November 28, 2017 21:47 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsToday, another edition of Midday on Ethics. We’ve talked several times over the past year about gene editing, and the ethical questions that go along with potentially editing the genes of plants and animals, including humans. Today, we revisit these questions with Dr. Jeffrey Kahn, the Director o...
Midday on Ethics with Dr. Jeffrey Kahn
Midday - October 05, 2017 17:47 - 38 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsBefore we begin today’s show, here’s a link that lists organizations that are helping people in Ellicott City with shelter, food and other humanitarian relief, following the severe flooding in that city’s historic downtown on Sunday – the second deadly flood in two years.Today, it’s another editi...
Bioethics with Dr. Jeffrey Kahn: Who Decides What's Best For A Dying Infant?
Midday - August 01, 2017 16:34 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsDr. Jeffrey Kahn is the Director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics . When he stops by Midday , we talk about all manner of complex dilemmas. Today, we?re having a conversation about the ethical questions surrounding the case of Charlie Gard . He?s the infant in Britain who died o...
Bioethics with Dr. Jeffrey Kahn: Life and Death Decisions
Midday - July 31, 2017 20:36 - 49 minutes ★★★★★ - 31 ratingsDr. Jeffrey Kahn is the Director of the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics . When he stops by Midday , we talk about all manner of complex dilemmas. Today, we?re having a conversation about the ethical questions surrounding the case of Charlie Gard . He?s the infant in Britain who died o...
Filter by Podcast (3)