CBH Talk | Life, Death, and Bioethics

What is bioethics and how does it shape the decisions we make in our own lives?

Through powerful first-person storytelling and live audience discussion, this program invites you to wrestle with real-world dilemmas at the intersection of medicine, technology, law, and ethics. Should people be able to hasten their death when they are terminally ill? Should a child be conceived to save the life of another? These are not abstract questions; they are the kinds of wrenching choices individuals, families, and health care professionals confront day in and day out.

Join the Center for Brooklyn History to celebrate the launch of Season 2 of playing god?, the podcast from the Dracopoulos-Bloomberg iDeas Lab at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics. The series brings listeners into the gray areas where medical possibility collides with ethical complexity, raising questions about our values as individuals and as a society.

Featuring leading Johns Hopkins faculty Jeffrey Kahn, the Andreas C. Dracopoulos Director of the university’s Berman Institute of Bioethics; Anna Mastroianni, professor of bioethics and law in the Berman Institute; and Lauren Arora Hutchinson, director of the Institute’s iDeas Lab, the evening blends narrative audio, expert framing, and open conversation to create an interactive space for reflection, debate, and shared inquiry.