Playing God?

I edited this 10 episode series for Pushkin Industries, in collaboration with the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics.

Ventilators can keep critically ill people alive, but when is it acceptable to turn the machines off? Organ transplants save lives but when demand outpaces supply how do we decide who gets them? Increasingly, novel reproductive technologies can help people have babies in ways that are far beyond what nature allows. So, when should such “Brave New World” technologies be introduced and who should control them? 

In each episode of Playing God? host Lauren Arora Hutchinson tells the story of a patient whose life was transformed by a medical innovation and the tricky ethical questions that go along with it.