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Bioethics Podcasts

Conversations in Bioethics with Dr. Toni Nicoletti is a podcast created through the Department of Philosophy and Comparative Religion, in connection with the Center for Elearning at Cleveland State University (CSU). This podcast features interviews with department colleagues, hospital ethicists, and other professionals working in the field of bioethics.

Current episodes include an interview with Dr. Paul Ford, Director of Bioethics at the Cleveland Clinic, about the role of clinical ethics consultation in the Cleveland Clinic healthcare system. Dr. Joseph Demarco, Professor Emeritus in Philosophy at CSU; and Mr. Sam Lipuma, Associate Professor at Cuyahoga Community College, about their new book, The Dying Experience: Expanding Options for Dying and Suffering Patients. Furthermore, there is also an interview with Dr. Allyson Robichaud, Interim Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences at CSU, about the current legal and moral landscape of physician aided death and euthanasia.

Upcoming episodes feature interviews with several other bioethicists at the Cleveland Clinic on transplant ethics and moral distress. An interview with Dr. Sonya Charles, Associate Professor in the Department of Philosophy and Comparative Religion at CSU, about her new book, Parents and Virtues: An Analysis of Moral Development and Parental Virtue.

Click here to view the podcasts.

Dr. Toni Nicoletti was also featured on CSU Engaged, click here to view.