Searching for Medicine’s Soul

About Searching for Medicine’s Soul

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.

Publisher

Ethics and Public Policy Center

Category

science · society & culture

Language

en

Explicit

No

First episode

26 Oct 2021

Latest episode

13 Mar 2025

Latest episodes

48 episodes in the feed.

1. 

   13 Mar 2025

   Charles Piller on the Alzheimer’s Research Industry

   In this episode, Aaron is joined by investigative journalist Charles Piller, who writes for Science and covers public health, biological warfare, and infectious disease outbreaks, among other topics. His most recent book, Doctored: Fraud, Arrogance, and Tragedy in the Quest to Cure Alzheimer's is a bombshell story about fraud within the field of Alzheimer’s research.

2. 

   10 Oct 2024

   Carl Elliott on Whistleblowers

   In this episode, Aaron is joined by Dr. Carl Elliott, author and philosophy professor at the University of Minnesota. They discuss how medical education can corrupt character, Dr. Elliott’s experience as a whistleblower, and his latest book, The Occasional Human Sacrifice: Medical Experimentation and the Price of Saying No, which explores the history of medical experimentation.

3. 

   3 Oct 2024

   Charlotte Bismuth on Prosecuting the Opioid Crisis

   On this episode, Aaron is joined by Charlotte Bismuth, author of Killer in a White Coat: The True Story of New York's Deadliest Pill Pusher and the Team That Brought Him to Justice. Bismuth discusses the profit motive behind the opioid crisis and her decision to prosecute Dr. Stan Li, whose criminal medical practice in New York led to 16 overdoses from prescription drugs.

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

Apple Podcasts (US)

5.0 / 5

20 ratings

Spotify

5.0 / 5

9 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 30 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

26

Social presence

0

YouTube

0

Engagement

82

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