playing god?

Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

Life-and-death decisions. Difficult tradeoffs. playing god? explores ethical dilemmas in health and medicine through the first-person stories of people who have lived them. Recognized with three 2024 Signal Awards. Brought to you by the Dracopoulos-Bloomberg iDeas Lab at the Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics.

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playing god?

Episodes (18)

Today Two Bodies, One Prescription
Tue Jun 16th A Shot at Weight Loss: Should I Take It?
Tue Jun 9th How Far Would You Go to Have a Healthy Baby?

playing god?

Jun 23, 2026
24½ minutes
22 MB

When Ashley Womble decides she wants to start a family, she worries she'll need to stop taking her antidepressant medication. Instead of finding clear guidance, she runs head-first into a troubling reality: many of the questions pregnant women and their physicians face about medication safety remain difficult to answer because pregnant women have historically been excluded from medical research. This episode looks at the ethical trade offs of leaving pregnant women out of medical research—and what happens when they and their doctors must make high stakes healthcare decisions without high quality evidence. This ep...

playing god?

Two Bodies, One Prescription

Johns Hopkins Berman Institute of Bioethics

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