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  • Health & Science
    Moral Choices with Ruth Macklin (Part One)
    May 19, 1990 | A World of Ideas
    Bill Moyers' talk with Ruth Macklin about the health-related philosophical problems we can face.
  • Health & Science
    Evelyn Fox Keller: The Gendered Language of Science
    May 6, 1990 | A World of Ideas
    The scientist and writer considered why the language of science reflected patriarchal, masculine metaphors and values — and what it meant for the discipline.
  • Health & Science
    Jonas Salk on Searching for the Next Medical Miracle
    February 18, 1990
    | BillMoyers.com Staff
    The doctor who invented the polio vaccine believed that medical solutions are not invented, but rather revealed from nature.
  • Health & Science
    Patricia Churchland: A Conversation With the Philosopher and Writer on the Brain
    February 11, 1990 | A World of Ideas
    Patricia Churchland brings together philosophy and neuroscience to deepen our understanding what goes on inside our heads.
  • Health & Science
    Robert Lucky (Part Two)
    February 4, 1990
    | BillMoyers.com Staff
    In this 1990 interview, the Bell Labs scientist tells Bill that studying computers makes him realize how beautiful it is to be human.
  • Robert Lucky (Part One)
    January 28, 1990
    | BillMoyers.com Staff
    Scientist Robert Lucky on how technology will impact our future lives.
  • The Truth About Lies
    November 29, 1989 | The Public Mind
    Bill Moyers examines how deception has influenced some of the major events of our recent past and how self-deception shapes our personal lives and the public mind.
  • Society
    Vartan Gregorian: Living in the Information Age
    November 15, 1988 | Updated April 1, 2015 | A World of Ideas
    Brown University President Vartan Gregorian discusses the rate at which knowledge increases in the information age, and how education must connect this information and life.
  • Mary Ann Glendon: Law of Abortion and Divorce
    November 11, 1988 | Updated April 1, 2015 | A World of Ideas
    The Harvard Law professor and author compares abortion and divorce policy in the United States and Europe.
  • Health & Science
    Maxine Singer: Ethics and Scientific Progress
    November 2, 1988 | A World of Ideas
    The geneticist discusses her concerns with the ethics of science and genetic engineering, the dilemmas of choice, and the consequences that so often accompany scientific progress.


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