Harriet A. Washington, a lecturer in bioethics at Columbia University, joins us to talk about her research into a patient’s right to decline a procedure and the ethics of forcing experiments or new treatments in the name of research.
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Meet Your Microglia: The Brain Cells That Heal And Harm Us
Science writer Donna Jackson Nakazawa joins us to talk about microglia, cells that act as the brain’s housekeeper but can sometimes be unreliable.
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