Radio: restraining patients in intensive care
Inside the Ethics Committee BBC Radio 4, Thursday 19 July 2012, 09.00-09.45, repeated 21.00-21.45, available via the iPlayer or as a podcast From the programme’s website: Monty has double pneumonia and...
View ArticleRadio: too old to donate?
BBC Radio 4, 26 July 2012, 21.00-21.45, also available via the iPlayer or as a podcast From the programme’s website: Since losing her husband to a terminal illness, and watching his kidneys fail,...
View ArticleRadio: When assisted death is legal
BBC World Service Episode 1: Tuesday 19 February 2013 at 9.05, 13.05, 16.05, 20.05, Wednesday 20 February at 02.05, Saturday 23 February at 19.05, Sunday 24 February at 13.05, also available via the...
View ArticleComment: Advance decisions to refuse treatment (ADRT) forms in dementia
I’ve done a little research on advance decisions to refuse treatment (ADRT) forms in dementia for an upcoming BBC Radio 4 episode of Inside the ethics committee, to be broadcast on 31 July 2014 at 9am....
View ArticleRadio: iPM on a patient with capacity having her life-sustaining pacemaker...
Last year, the Radio 4 programme iPM ran an item about an adult patient with capacity seeking to have her pacemaker deactivated: “Who can make decisions about a pacemaker once it’s in my body?’ – After...
View ArticleRadio: ‘Neurolaw and Order’ on the BBC World Service
Neurolaw and Order, available now online and as a podcast The Documentary The latest findings in neuroscience are increasingly affecting the justice system in America. Owen Jones, professor of law and...
View ArticleRadio: An Instinct for Kindness
BBC Radio 4, available via the iPlayer until 30 March 2018 The powerful and personal account of how Chris Larner was asked by his ex-wife if he would accompany her to Dignitas to die when her illness...
View ArticleRadio: The Changing Face of Procreation
BBC World Service, available via the iPlayer Anyone with enough money, be they female, male, gay, straight, single or in a relationship now has the opportunity to try for a baby of their own. By the...
View ArticleRadio: In the child’s best interests on BBC Radio 4
BBC Radio 4, Sunday 9 December 2018, 17.00 GMT or via BBC Sounds This programme features KCL MA Medical Ethics and Law alumnae Victoria Butler-Cole and Sarah Barclay, co-founder (with alumnus Dr Simon...
View ArticleRadio: Test Case on Debbie Purdy and assisted suicide
Two related programmes on BBC Radio 4, available now on BBC Sounds until 28 March 2019 Test Case: Debbie Purdy Debbie Purdy was a journalist who fell in love with a Cuban jazz musician, just as she...
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