Description
Dr Erin Gentry Lamb joins Ethics Talk to key ideas from disability ethics that can inform our thinking about age-related biases and Dr Kate De Medeiros describes how medicalizing aging affects our health, relationships, and sense of self.
Erin Gentry Lamb, PhD joined the Department of Bioethics faculty at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, in 2020 to serve as the faculty lead of the Humanities Pathway in the School of Medicine and to direct the undergraduate bioethics and medical humanities minor. Previously, Dr Lamb served as the director of the Center for Literature and Medicine and the Herbert L. and Pauline Wentz Andrews Professor of Biomedical Humanities at Hiram College, home to North America’s first baccalaureate major in health humanities.
Kate De Medeiros, PhD is a a social gerontologist and researcher who explores how attitudes about aging affect our health, relationships, and sense of self.
Interview with Dr Lamb recorded September 22, 2025; interview with Dr De Medeiros recorded September 5, 2025.
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Viewpoints expressed are those of interview participants and do not necessarily reflect the views and policies of the AMA.
