Mason Institute Investigates

About Mason Institute Investigates

Being healthy is simple. Or is it? It’s very easy to take health and wellbeing for granted. But how many of us stop to consider questions like: Who gets to be healthy? How much control over my health and wellbeing do I really have? Join us every fortnight, as we investigate important current issues of ethics, law and policy in the fields of health, medicine and the life sciences. If you want to understand how to advocate for your own health and the health of others, this podcast is for you. Mason Institute Investigates is a podcast series produced by the Mason Institute and funded by the Edinburgh Law School at the University of Edinburgh.

Publisher

The University of Edinburgh

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

13 Sept 2022

Latest episode

25 Oct 2023

Latest episodes

12 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   25 Oct 2023

   Celebrating 40 years of Mason and McCall Smith's Law and Medical Ethics

   On this very special episode of the Mason Institute (https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/research/research-centres-and-networks/mason-institute) podcast series we celebrate the seminal textbook, Mason and McCall Smith's Law and Medical Ethics (https://global.oup.com/ukhe/product/mason-and-mccall-smiths-law-and-medical-ethics-9780192866226?cc=gb&lang=en&), which was born and nurtured here at Edinburgh Law School. Forty years ago Professor Ken Mason and Dr Alexander McCall Smith developed the idea for a textbook that would combine their disciplines in medicine and law, and offer guidance where none had been before. It broke new ground and continues to do so today. Now in its 12th edition, we wanted to look back at how far the textbook has come and understand what the future may hold. On this episode you'll hear from Professor Anne-Maree Farrell, Director of the Mason Institute and Chair of Medical Jurisprudence at Edinburgh Law School, as she introduces co-editor Doctor Edward Dove, as well as contributors past and present to the textbook. The podcast looks at how the textbook came about in the first place, what contributions have been made to the current 12th edition published in 2023, and what the future may hold for the book. The final word on the podcast goes to (the late) Professor Ken Mason, one of the original authors. He reminds us of the importance of the relationship between medical law and ethics, which has been a hallmark of the textbook from the time it was first published to the present day. The Mason Institute (https://www.law.ed.ac.uk/research/research-centres-and-networks/mason-institute) would like to extend its thanks to: Edinburgh colleagues who contributed to the 12th edition of Mason and McCall Smith’s Law and Medical Ethics (https://global.oup.com/ukhe/product/mason-and-mccall-smiths-law-and-medical-ethics-9780192866226?cc=gb&lang=en&) (Oxford University Press 2023) - lead editor/author: Professor Anne-Maree Farrell and Dr Edward Dove; chapter contributors – Dr Murray Earle, Dr Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra, Dr Emily Postan, Dr Catriona McMillan, Ruby Reed Berendt and Dr Annie Sorbie; foreword is by Professor Graeme Laurie. All editors and authors who contributed to previous editions of Mason and McCall Smith’s Law and Medical Ethics, including Professor Graeme Laurie, Dr Shawn Harmon, and Dr Gerard Porter. A special thanks to the late Professor J Kenyon Mason and Emeritus Professor Alexander McCall Smith for their seminal contribution to initial publication of the textbook in 1983, and many editions that followed. The Mason Institute, Edinburgh Law School and the University of Edinburgh. Their financial and other support is gratefully acknowledged. Oxford University Press, the publisher of the current 12th edition, 2023, as well as previous editions of the textbook. This podcast was produced and edited by Kelly Crichton.

2. 

   9 Aug 2023

   Mason Institute Investigates - Season 2 Episode 5: Listening to Children: Children’s perspectives on surrogacy law

   Welcome back for another episode of the Mason Institute Investigates podcast. In this episode, Dr Katherine Wade, Dr Kirsty Horsey and Dr Zaina Mahmoud talks about their project called “Children’s Voices in Surrogacy Law”.

3. 

   20 Jul 2023

   Mason Institute Investigates Season 2 Episode 4: Under Pressure: Impact of COVID-19 ‘easements’ on adult social care provision

   Welcome back for another episode of the Mason Institute Investigates podcast. In this episode Professor Jean McHale from Birmingham Law School and Director of the Centre of Health Law, Science and Policy at the University of Birmingham; and Dr Laura Noszlopy from the University of Birmingham’s School of Social Policy, discuss their Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) funded project called, “The impact of Covid-19 social care ‘easements’: Removing rights from the vulnerable?”

4. 

   6 Jun 2023

   Mason Institute Investigates Season 2 Episode 3: Peace by Piece: Legal Regulation of Cosmetic Procedures

   The description for this episode is: Welcome back for another episode of the Mason Institute Investigates podcast. In this episode, our guest is Professor Jean McHale, healthcare lawyer and Director of the Centre of Health Law, Science and Policy at the University of Birmingham. Professor McHale talks about the main themes of the regulation of cosmetic surgery explored in her book co-authored with Dr Melanie Latham, called “The Regulation of Cosmetic Procedures: Legal, Ethical and Practical Challenges”.

5. 

   18 May 2023

   Mason Institute Investigates Episode 8: Clinician-Led Evidence-Based Activism

   Welcome back for another episode of Mason Institute Investigates. In this episode Dr Piyush Pushkar and Dr Louise Tomkow from the University of Manchester talk about their research on clinician-led evidence-based activism (CLEBA), a form of activism that utilises the clinical authority of doctors to challenge various political issues concerning healthcare.

6. 

   2 May 2023

   Mason Institute Investigates Episode 7: Longevity for me, but not for thee? Longevity protocols and the ethics of healthy ageing.

   Welcome to a new season of the Mason Institute Investigates podcast. Starting off this season, we have Dr Ilke Turkmendag, Senior Lecturer in Law, Innovation and Society from the University of Newcastle. In this episode, Dr Turkmendag talks her recent research into longevity protocols and the ethics of healthy ageing

7. 

   5 Apr 2023

   Mason Institute Investigates Episode 6: Ethics of vulnerability: Lessons from Just Emergencies

   Leyla Noury from the Edinburgh Law School shares the best parts of Just Emergencies; a podcast produced by Rebecca Richards from the Edinburgh Law School. The Just Emergencies podcast series is the result of a Wellcome Seed Award Project called “Vulnerability and justice in global health emergency regulation: developing future ethical models”.

8. 

   19 Jan 2023

   Episode 5: Clinical decision making: Evidence based, or Values based?

   Welcome to the fifth episode of the Mason Institute Investigates podcast. This episode's guest is Professor Jonathan Michaels, ex-NHS consultant in vascular surgery and now Honorary Professor of Clinical Decision Science at the School of Health and Related Research at the University of Sheffield. In this episode, Professor Michaels talks about evidence-based decision making in medicine.

9. 

   7 Nov 2022

   Episode 4 - Clinical Negligence and Patient Safety

   Welcome to the fourth episode of the Mason Institute Investigates podcast. This episode's guest is Dr Sarah Devaney (https://www.research.manchester.ac.uk/portal/en/researchers/sarah-devaney(4096c342-d68c-4c40-80cf-0840234d53d4).html) (University of Manchester). Dr Devaney and Professor Anne-Maree Farrell draw on their backgrounds as previous lawyers with clinical negligence experience to discuss reforms targeting costs of clinical negligence claims and their implications for patient safety.

10. 

    26 Oct 2022

    Episode 3 - DNACPR decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic

    This episode's guest is Upeka de Silva, the Policy Officer for the national charity Compassion in Dying. Upeka talks to us about the Care Quality Commission's (CQC) review into DNACPR decision-making during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the role Compassion in Dying had in the CQC's report, as well as the trends and problems surrounding DNACPR decision-making before and during the pandemic discovered by Compassion in Dying in their independent report.

11. 

    4 Oct 2022

    Episode 2 - Bad Apple Surgeons: The role of criminal law in non-fatal surgical harm

    Welcome back for our second episode of the Mason Institute Investigates podcast. Today's guest is Dr Alex Mullock (University of Manchester). Dr Mullock discusses with Professor Anne-Maree Farrell (Edinburgh Law School) about her research into non-fatal surgical harm caused by bad apple surgeons and the potential role of criminal law in addressing these harms. This podcast is a joint production of Edinburgh Law School and the University of Manchester.

12. 

    13 Sept 2022

    Episode 1 - Public Health, Ethics and Law Research Network (PHELN): COVID-19 Vaccination Programmes in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland

    This is the first episode of the Mason Institute Investigates podcast. Professor Anne-Maree Farrell (Edinburgh Law School) is joined by Professor Mary Donnelly (University College Cork) to discuss Covid-19 vaccination programmes in Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland. The podcast is also part of their work with the Public Health, Ethics and Law Research Network (PHELN), an academic cooperation between the University of Edinburgh, University College Cork and Queen’s University Belfast.

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