Margaret McLean: Making Life and Death Ethical Decisions in the Pandemic and in Life

Voices of Santa Clara Podcast

Margaret McLean is the director of bioethics at the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics. She is also senior lecturer in religious studies and affiliate faculty in bioengineering. She teaches courses on ethics related to healthcare and biotechnology.

In 2017, she was awarded a Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition from the Congress of the United States and the Santa Clara County Medical Association Citizen’s Award in recognition of her significant contribution to the health field.

In this conversation, we discuss how hospitals are making life and death ethical decisions, how the pandemic is impacting vulnerable communities, how normal people can help change unjust systems, how religion impacts ethics, and how working with end-of-life patients has shaped how Margaret thinks about death.

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