http://soundmedicine.iu.edu Listen to Sound Medicine, the weekly talk radio show sponsored by the IU School of Medicine and WFYI, 90.1 FM, the Indianapolis NPR affiliate. en-us Copyright 2013 Indiana University School of Medicine medschl @ iupui.edu (IU School of Medicine) Author John Dittmer discusses the under reported history of the civil rights movement within the medical community in the 1960s. Until the late 1960s, African American doctors were not permitted to belong to county medical associations. Since it was those local associations that granted hospital privileges, African American physicians often were not permitted to admit patients to white-run hos.... http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/3264/The-Good-Doctors http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/3264/The-Good-Doctors May 27, 2012T00:00:01+20:00 Author John Dittmer discusses the under reported history of the civil rights movement within the medical community in the 1960s. Until the late 1960s, African American doctors were not permitted to belong to county medical associations. Since it was those local associations that granted hospital privileges, African American physicians often were not permitted to admit patients to white-run hos.... http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/3264/The-Good-Doctors http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/3264/The-Good-Doctors May 27, 2012T00:00:01+20:00 In the Sound Medicine studios this week, two bioethicists and a health care policy expert meet to discuss health care rationing. Two familiar voices, IU health care policy expert Aaron Carroll, MD, and the director of the IU Center for Bioethics, Eric Meslin, PhD, sit down with influential bioethicist Arthur Caplan, PhD, the Sydney D. Caplan Professor of Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvani.... http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/3196/Experts-Tackle-Ethical-Health-Care-Rationing http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/3196/Experts-Tackle-Ethical-Health-Care-Rationing April 1, 2012T00:00:01+20:00 In the Sound Medicine studios this week, two bioethicists and a health care policy expert meet to discuss health care rationing. Two familiar voices, IU health care policy expert Aaron Carroll, MD, and the director of the IU Center for Bioethics, Eric Meslin, PhD, sit down with influential bioethicist Arthur Caplan, PhD, the Sydney D. Caplan Professor of Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvani.... http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/3196/Experts-Tackle-Ethical-Health-Care-Rationing http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/3196/Experts-Tackle-Ethical-Health-Care-Rationing April 1, 2012T00:00:01+20:00 It's hard to read a newspaper these days without reading on one page about a new breakthrough in genetic medicine and on another page about a cholera outbreak, or a shockingly high infant mortality rate caused by malnutrition or disease. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation set out several years ago to develop ways to bring the newest medical research in the lab to the world's neediest communi.... http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/3150/Solving--Grand-Challenges--in-Global-Health http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/3150/Solving--Grand-Challenges--in-Global-Health February 19, 2012T00:00:01+20:00 It's hard to read a newspaper these days without reading on one page about a new breakthrough in genetic medicine and on another page about a cholera outbreak, or a shockingly high infant mortality rate caused by malnutrition or disease. The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation set out several years ago to develop ways to bring the newest medical research in the lab to the world's neediest communi.... http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/3150/Solving--Grand-Challenges--in-Global-Health http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/3150/Solving--Grand-Challenges--in-Global-Health February 19, 2012T00:00:01+20:00 Recently, two teams studying the H5N1 influenza virus discovered how to produce a version of the highly pathogenic avian flu, which is easily transmissible in mammals. The researchers have agreed to suspend their research for 60 days to allow discussion of how the findings should be reported. IU bioethicist Eric Meslin, PhD, discusses the moratorium and how it may affect the research. Dr.... http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/3134/Avian-Flu-Research-Suspended http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/3134/Avian-Flu-Research-Suspended February 5, 2012T00:00:01+20:00 Recently, two teams studying the H5N1 influenza virus discovered how to produce a version of the highly pathogenic avian flu, which is easily transmissible in mammals. The researchers have agreed to suspend their research for 60 days to allow discussion of how the findings should be reported. IU bioethicist Eric Meslin, PhD, discusses the moratorium and how it may affect the research. Dr.... http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/3134/Avian-Flu-Research-Suspended http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/3134/Avian-Flu-Research-Suspended February 5, 2012T00:00:01+20:00 We've heard some of the medical questions surrounding the issue of performing a uterus transplant. Now, Sound Medicine's resident bioethicist, Dr. Eric Meslin, will chat with Dr. Giuseppe Del Priore about the ethical questions inherent to this unusual procedure. Both Meslin and Del Priore are part of a larger task force preparing for making this surgery available. Giuseppe del Priore, M.... http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/3106/Womb-Transplants-Raise-Ethical-Questions http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/3106/Womb-Transplants-Raise-Ethical-Questions January 8, 2012T00:00:01+20:00 We've heard some of the medical questions surrounding the issue of performing a uterus transplant. Now, Sound Medicine's resident bioethicist, Dr. Eric Meslin, will chat with Dr. Giuseppe Del Priore about the ethical questions inherent to this unusual procedure. Both Meslin and Del Priore are part of a larger task force preparing for making this surgery available. Giuseppe del Priore, M.... http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/3106/Womb-Transplants-Raise-Ethical-Questions http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/3106/Womb-Transplants-Raise-Ethical-Questions January 8, 2012T00:00:01+20:00 Sound Medicine's resident bioethicist is back this week with a conversation about the modern conflict between science and politics. IU bioethicist Eric Meslin, PhD, sits down with bioethicist and author Jonathan Moreno, PhD, to discuss Dr. Moreno's new book, The Body Politic, the Battle over Science in America. Moreno's work explores the notion of biopolitics and the interesting clashes between.... http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/3092/Book--The-Body-Politic--the-Battle-Over-Science-in-America http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/3092/Book--The-Body-Politic--the-Battle-Over-Science-in-America December 18, 2011T00:00:01+20:00 Sound Medicine's resident bioethicist is back this week with a conversation about the modern conflict between science and politics. IU bioethicist Eric Meslin, PhD, sits down with bioethicist and author Jonathan Moreno, PhD, to discuss Dr. Moreno's new book, The Body Politic, the Battle over Science in America. Moreno's work explores the notion of biopolitics and the interesting clashes between.... http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/3092/Book--The-Body-Politic--the-Battle-Over-Science-in-America http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/3092/Book--The-Body-Politic--the-Battle-Over-Science-in-America December 18, 2011T00:00:01+20:00 We have a remarkable story now, about a doctor on trial for breaching medical ethics. Even though it stems from South Africa's anti-apartheid era in the early 1980s, a trial is underway now. But first, Dr. Eric Meslin, the director of the IU Center for Bioethics, lays out the basics of story, starting with a description of "Project Coast." And we should warn you: some of the details are grap.... http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/3065/The-Strange-Trial-of-Dr--Wouter-Basson http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/3065/The-Strange-Trial-of-Dr--Wouter-Basson November 20, 2011T00:00:01+20:00 We have a remarkable story now, about a doctor on trial for breaching medical ethics. Even though it stems from South Africa's anti-apartheid era in the early 1980s, a trial is underway now. But first, Dr. Eric Meslin, the director of the IU Center for Bioethics, lays out the basics of story, starting with a description of "Project Coast." And we should warn you: some of the details are grap.... http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/3065/The-Strange-Trial-of-Dr--Wouter-Basson http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/3065/The-Strange-Trial-of-Dr--Wouter-Basson November 20, 2011T00:00:01+20:00 Earlier this summer, in the wake of the Osama bin Laden killing, there were reports in the British paper The Guardian that the CIA organized a fake vaccination program in several Pakistani towns around where bin Laden was believed to be living -- in hopes of gathering DNA from some of his relatives. That DNA would then be used to confirm his identity, after the raid in early May. Now, report.... http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2950/Bioethics--CIA-Vaccine-Ruse http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2950/Bioethics--CIA-Vaccine-Ruse August 14, 2011T00:00:01+20:00 Earlier this summer, in the wake of the Osama bin Laden killing, there were reports in the British paper The Guardian that the CIA organized a fake vaccination program in several Pakistani towns around where bin Laden was believed to be living -- in hopes of gathering DNA from some of his relatives. That DNA would then be used to confirm his identity, after the raid in early May. Now, report.... http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2950/Bioethics--CIA-Vaccine-Ruse http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2950/Bioethics--CIA-Vaccine-Ruse August 14, 2011T00:00:01+20:00 This week, we're rebroadcasting a program recorded in 2010 with Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks has recently been released in paperback, after spending the past year on multiple best-seller lists. Skloot's groundbreaking book traces a chapter in medical history that combines questions of medical research and bioethics with iss.... http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2865/Book--The-Immortal-Life-of-Henrietta-Lacks http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2865/Book--The-Immortal-Life-of-Henrietta-Lacks May 29, 2011T00:00:01+20:00 This week, we're rebroadcasting a program recorded in 2010 with Rebecca Skloot, author of The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks has recently been released in paperback, after spending the past year on multiple best-seller lists. Skloot's groundbreaking book traces a chapter in medical history that combines questions of medical research and bioethics with iss.... http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2865/Book--The-Immortal-Life-of-Henrietta-Lacks http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2865/Book--The-Immortal-Life-of-Henrietta-Lacks May 29, 2011T00:00:01+20:00 Recently, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues conducted a series of hearings on synthetic biology. Benefits of synthetic biology include the creation of vaccines and other drugs as well as the development of biofuels that reduce dependence on fossil fuels; technological risks, however, include inadvertent release of lab-created organisms. On this week's show Eric M.... http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2790/Synthetic-Biology http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2790/Synthetic-Biology March 20, 2011T00:00:01+20:00 Recently, the Presidential Commission for the Study of Bioethical Issues conducted a series of hearings on synthetic biology. Benefits of synthetic biology include the creation of vaccines and other drugs as well as the development of biofuels that reduce dependence on fossil fuels; technological risks, however, include inadvertent release of lab-created organisms. On this week's show Eric M.... http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2790/Synthetic-Biology http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2790/Synthetic-Biology March 20, 2011T00:00:01+20:00 Until the late 1960s, African American doctors were not permitted to belong to county medical associations. And since it was those local associations that granted hospital privileges, African American physicians often were not permitted to admit patients to white-run hospitals in the south. It wasn't until 1968 that the American Medical Association was pressured to change this policy, in par.... http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2742/Book--The-Good-Doctors http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2742/Book--The-Good-Doctors February 6, 2011T00:00:01+20:00 Until the late 1960s, African American doctors were not permitted to belong to county medical associations. And since it was those local associations that granted hospital privileges, African American physicians often were not permitted to admit patients to white-run hospitals in the south. It wasn't until 1968 that the American Medical Association was pressured to change this policy, in par.... http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2742/Book--The-Good-Doctors http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2742/Book--The-Good-Doctors February 6, 2011T00:00:01+20:00 Welcome back to this special medical-history edition of Sound Medicine. I'm Barbara Lewis. We end the program with a personal recollection of a remarkable chapter in medical history, from a regular guest on this program, Dr. Steven Jay of the IU School of Medicine. This segment originally aired June 1, 2008. It turns out that in 1965, Dr. Jay was a witness to the end of a grim and controv.... http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2701/The-Dark-History-of-Electroshock-Therapy http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2701/The-Dark-History-of-Electroshock-Therapy January 2, 2011T00:00:01+20:00 Welcome back to this special medical-history edition of Sound Medicine. I'm Barbara Lewis. We end the program with a personal recollection of a remarkable chapter in medical history, from a regular guest on this program, Dr. Steven Jay of the IU School of Medicine. This segment originally aired June 1, 2008. It turns out that in 1965, Dr. Jay was a witness to the end of a grim and controv.... http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2701/The-Dark-History-of-Electroshock-Therapy http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2701/The-Dark-History-of-Electroshock-Therapy January 2, 2011T00:00:01+20:00 As regular listeners to this program know, we're fortunate to have a team of co-hosts who come to our studio to interview guests and explain important medical stories in the news. They're all on faculty with the IU School of Medicine; they all have busy research and clinical practices. Three of the four have been with Sound Medicine since it first hit the airwaves in the spring of 2002. That.... http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2692/Top-Stories-in-Medicine-for-2010 http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2692/Top-Stories-in-Medicine-for-2010 December 26, 2010T00:00:01+20:00 As regular listeners to this program know, we're fortunate to have a team of co-hosts who come to our studio to interview guests and explain important medical stories in the news. They're all on faculty with the IU School of Medicine; they all have busy research and clinical practices. Three of the four have been with Sound Medicine since it first hit the airwaves in the spring of 2002. That.... http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2692/Top-Stories-in-Medicine-for-2010 http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2692/Top-Stories-in-Medicine-for-2010 December 26, 2010T00:00:01+20:00 When it was revealed earlier this fall that American scientists working in Guatemala during the 1940's had intentionally infected prisoners with syphilis, the U.S. State Department issued an apology almost immediately. The discovery was made by historian Susan Reverby, PhD, of Wellesley College. Today, joining Barbara Lewis to talk about that story, and the ramifications it's having more th.... http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2672/Sound-Ethics--A-Syphilis-Experiment-in-1940-s-Guatemala http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2672/Sound-Ethics--A-Syphilis-Experiment-in-1940-s-Guatemala December 5, 2010T00:00:01+20:00 When it was revealed earlier this fall that American scientists working in Guatemala during the 1940's had intentionally infected prisoners with syphilis, the U.S. State Department issued an apology almost immediately. The discovery was made by historian Susan Reverby, PhD, of Wellesley College. Today, joining Barbara Lewis to talk about that story, and the ramifications it's having more th.... http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2672/Sound-Ethics--A-Syphilis-Experiment-in-1940-s-Guatemala http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2672/Sound-Ethics--A-Syphilis-Experiment-in-1940-s-Guatemala December 5, 2010T00:00:01+20:00 Barbara Lewis and IU Bioethicist talk with science writer David Stipp, author of The Youth Pill: Scientists at the Brink of an Anti-Aging Revolution. As well as touching on the history of longevity research and current promising drugs and treatments, Stipp addresses, and rejects, the common ethical objections to life-extension research..... http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2591/Book--The-Youth-Pill http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2591/Book--The-Youth-Pill September 26, 2010T00:00:01+20:00 Barbara Lewis and IU Bioethicist talk with science writer David Stipp, author of The Youth Pill: Scientists at the Brink of an Anti-Aging Revolution. As well as touching on the history of longevity research and current promising drugs and treatments, Stipp addresses, and rejects, the common ethical objections to life-extension research..... http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2591/Book--The-Youth-Pill http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2591/Book--The-Youth-Pill September 26, 2010T00:00:01+20:00 Barbara Lewis and IU Bioethicist talk with science writer David Stipp, author of The Youth Pill: Scientists at the Brink of an Anti-Aging Revolution. As well as touching on the history of longevity research and current promising drugs and treatments, Stipp addresses, and rejects, the common ethical objections to life-extension research..... http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2584/Book--The-Youth-Pill http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2584/Book--The-Youth-Pill September 19, 2010T00:00:01+20:00 Barbara Lewis and IU Bioethicist talk with science writer David Stipp, author of The Youth Pill: Scientists at the Brink of an Anti-Aging Revolution. As well as touching on the history of longevity research and current promising drugs and treatments, Stipp addresses, and rejects, the common ethical objections to life-extension research..... http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2584/Book--The-Youth-Pill http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2584/Book--The-Youth-Pill September 19, 2010T00:00:01+20:00 Today, we're going to focus the entire hour on one remarkable story, on a chapter in medical history that combines questions of medical research and bioethics with issues of race and class and of doing the "right thing." If only it were so simple. Our guest for this hour is Rebecca Skloot, whose book, "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" has been on several best-seller lists all spring. Sk.... http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2429/Book---The-Immortal-Life-of-Henrietta-Lacks http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2429/Book---The-Immortal-Life-of-Henrietta-Lacks May 2, 2010T00:00:01+20:00 Today, we're going to focus the entire hour on one remarkable story, on a chapter in medical history that combines questions of medical research and bioethics with issues of race and class and of doing the "right thing." If only it were so simple. Our guest for this hour is Rebecca Skloot, whose book, "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks" has been on several best-seller lists all spring. Sk.... http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2429/Book---The-Immortal-Life-of-Henrietta-Lacks http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2429/Book---The-Immortal-Life-of-Henrietta-Lacks May 2, 2010T00:00:01+20:00 For our tenth anniversary show, we invited our faculty hosts to the WFYI studios to discuss ten years of change in medicine and medical science. In this segment, our hosts field questions from our audience about rural medicine and about women practicing medicine..... http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2407/Ten-Years-On--Rural-Medicine-and-Women-Doctors http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2407/Ten-Years-On--Rural-Medicine-and-Women-Doctors April 4, 2010T00:00:01+20:00 For our tenth anniversary show, we invited our faculty hosts to the WFYI studios to discuss ten years of change in medicine and medical science. In this segment, our hosts field questions from our audience about rural medicine and about women practicing medicine..... http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2407/Ten-Years-On--Rural-Medicine-and-Women-Doctors http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2407/Ten-Years-On--Rural-Medicine-and-Women-Doctors April 4, 2010T00:00:01+20:00 For our live, tenth anniversary show, we invited to the WFYI studio each of our faculty hosts: Steve Bogdewic, Kathy Miller and David Crabb, as well as regular contributor Eric Meslin. In this final segment from that show, our hosts each talked about the future of medicine and voiced their concerns about healthcare and science literacy..... http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2402/Ten-Years-On--Concerns-About-the-Future-of-Medicine http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2402/Ten-Years-On--Concerns-About-the-Future-of-Medicine April 4, 2010T00:00:01+20:00 For our live, tenth anniversary show, we invited to the WFYI studio each of our faculty hosts: Steve Bogdewic, Kathy Miller and David Crabb, as well as regular contributor Eric Meslin. In this final segment from that show, our hosts each talked about the future of medicine and voiced their concerns about healthcare and science literacy..... http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2402/Ten-Years-On--Concerns-About-the-Future-of-Medicine http://soundmedicine.iu.edu/segment/2402/Ten-Years-On--Concerns-About-the-Future-of-Medicine April 4, 2010T00:00:01+20:00