Suicide (Part Three)
Dr. Andrew Leuchter, Director of Adult Psychiatry at UCLA, explains that the people who are at the highest risk for committing suicide are those who are socially isolated.
Series: Health Care
Subject: health
Drug Companies and Research
Professor of Law and Medicine Alex Capron talks about the ethics challenges that arise when drug companies do clinical research. One example that Professor Capron discusses concerns compensation that participating physicians receive from drug compan...
Series: Health Care
Subject: health
Physician-Assisted Death
Professor of Law and Medicine Alex Capron talks about ethical issues pertaining to physician-assisted death. He explains why he is opposed to it, arguing that what we should be doing instead is finding ways to make dying less painful and more humane.
Series: Health Care
Subject: health
Transcript: when we have a health system That doesn't reach everyone equitably, If i'm in the situation that i'm dying from something That might be painful and awful
AIDS Research and Treatment
Professor of Law and Medicine Alex Capron talks about some of the ethical issues surrounding research into drugs used in the treatment of AIDS. Professor Capron explores the question of whether it's ethically correct to do experimental research when...
Series: Health Care
Subject: health
Privatization of Healthcare, The
Professor of Law and Medicine Alex Capron talks about ethical lapses that sometimes take place because of the increasingly bottom line orientation of modern hospitals.
Series: Health Care
Subject: health
Novelty Seekers: Negative Consequences
Dean Hamer, Director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the National Cancer Institute, talks about the potential for negative consequences among those who are genetically inclined to seek thrills. Some of these consequences can include tak...
Series: Health Care
Subject: health
Nature vs. Nurture (Part One)
Dean Hamer, Director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the National Cancer Institute, takes a fresh look at the nature vs. nurture controversy. Dr. Hamer contends that personality consists of two different components: temperament and char...
Series: Health Care
Subject: health
Novelty Seekers
Dean Hamer, Director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the National Cancer Institute, talks about efforts to learn more about the role genetics plays in the personality trait that motivates novelty seeking (sometimes known as sensation se...
Series: Health Care
Subject: health
Nature vs. Nurture (Part Two)
Dean Hamer, Director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the National Cancer Institute, talks about studies that suggest the combination of a genetic predisposition towards violence, coupled with a bad home environment, is a toxic mixture t...
Series: Health Care
Subject: health
Serotonin
Dean Hamer, Director of the Gene Structure and Regulation Unit at the National Cancer Institute, talks about the chemical serotonin and the role it plays in the brain. As it turns out, harm avoidance is controlled by serotonin. Unfortunately, this c...
Series: Health Care
Subject: health