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What is truth-telling and is it always the best way? How might dignity help us think about the morality of kidney sales? What does the 2018 Thailand cave dive rescue teach us about medical informed consent and virtue?
These are just some of the questions explored in the JBI articles chosen by current joint editor-in-chief, Dr Michael Ashby, for the journal’s 20th anniversary collection.
Michael is a palliative care and pain clinician, a self-confessed ‘dabbler’ in philosophy, and joint editor-in-chief at the JBI for nearly a decade.
In addition to some cracker reflections on these JBI articles, Michael peels back the ‘editorial curtain’, and we talk about things like:
- The impacts of the recent US election and Trump’s USA, and the trickle down effects into Australia and NZ
- Political “contagion” and mimicry
- The need for logic and the ‘realness’ of subjectivity
- A Freudian psychoanalysis of bioethics and
- Trying the ‘pub test’ on your piece bioethics research.
This is also a great pod episode if you’re newer to the JBI and publishing/reading bioethics as Michael gives a bit of insight into what kinds of scholarship the JBI publishes.
Enjoy!

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0:00 - Introduction
5:20 - Reflections on 20 years of the JBI and the recent US election
18:56 - on truth and reconciliation
22:50 - on autonomy and patient values in Poland
29:30 - on open disclosure in New Zealand
34:33 - on the morality of kidney sales
38:50 - on the ethical considerations of anaesthetist involved in the 2018 Thailand cave dive rescue

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JBI Archives 20th Anniversary - Open Access Collection

Micheal's complete editorial 'Twigs of Evidence'

Select Papers (in order of mention):

Lingis, A. Truth in Reconciliation. Bioethical Inquiry 8, 239–243 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-011-9306-2

Olchowska-Kotala, A., Strządała, A. & Barański, J. Patients’ Values and Desire for Autonomy: An Empirical Study from Poland. Bioethical Inquiry 20, 409–419 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-023-10241-y

McLennan, S., Moore, J. New Zealand District Health Boards’ Open Disclosure Policies: A Qualitative Review. Bioethical Inquiry 16, 35–44 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-018-9894-1

Reese, A., Pies, I. The Morality of Kidney Sales: When Caring for the Seller’s Dignity Has Moral Costs. Bioethical Inquiry 20, 139–152 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-023-10231-0

Irwin, M.A. The Thailand Cave Rescue: General Anaesthesia in Unique Circumstances Presents Ethical Challenges for the Rescue Team. Bioethical Inquiry 19, 265–271 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-022-10168-w

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