Searching for Medicine’s Soul

By: Ethics and Public Policy Center
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  • Hosted by Dr. Aaron Rothstein and featuring expert guests, Searching for Medicine’s Soul explores medicine’s purpose: Why do physicians do what they do? How does the practice of medicine relate to scientific progress and human flourishing? The result is an in-depth analysis of the history and aim of medicine, and its collision with a thrilling and sometimes tragic age of discovery.
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Episodes
  • Dasha Kiper on Supporting Dementia Caregivers

    Dasha Kiper on Supporting Dementia Caregivers
    Apr 25 2024

    “On this episode, Aaron is joined by Dasha Kiper, author of Travelers to Unimaginable Lands: Stories of Dementia, the Caregiver, and the Human Brain and a clinical trainer at Renewal Memory Partners. Aaron and Dasha discuss the impact dementia has on caregivers. Through cultural pressures, family dynamics, and a lack of support, caregivers have become what Dasha calls “invisible victims.”
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    40 mins
  • Marc-David Munk on Emergency Medicine in Africa

    Marc-David Munk on Emergency Medicine in Africa
    Mar 28 2024

    Episode description: On this episode, Aaron is joined by Dr. Marc-David Munk, author of Urgent Calls from Distant Places: An Emergency Doctor’s Notes about Life and Death on the Frontiers of East Africa. Dr. Munk discusses his travels to the Middle East and Africa, Christianity’s role as a trusted institution in places where government has failed, and how to bring the focus back to patients in the American healthcare system.
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    44 mins
  • Doron Gothelf on Traumatized Israeli Children After October 7th

    Doron Gothelf on Traumatized Israeli Children After October 7th
    Mar 14 2024

    On this episode, Aaron is joined by Doron Gothelf, a professor of child psychiatry at Tel Aviv University and an integral member of the medical team involved in treating Israeli children hostages who have been released. Aaron and Doron discuss childhood trauma, how traumatic events affect the young, and Doron’s work with the victims of Hamas’ violence.
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    1 hr and 1 min
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