Arthur Caplan: The Right to Life, Liberty, and Pursuit of Health

While growing up during the polio era, Arthur Caplan, PhD, saw doctors hide painful truths from families and children, which sparked his lifelong questions about power, protection, and inequality in medicine. In this episode, Caplan claims that bioethics has changed from marginalizing or abandoning disabled people to genetic testing, parental perfectionism, and personal autonomy over collective responsibility. Caplan predicts that extreme individualism will endanger public health and that the next ethical frontier will be the brain and how far humans should alter identity.

Produced and hosted by Jonathan D. Grinstein, PhD

Audio mixed and mastered by Erick Ziegler

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