Episodes From 2022

The Common Good: An Exploration of Health, Law, and Ethics

Through interviews with experts and deep dives on a variety of subjects, host Leigh E. Rich examines health care, history, philosophy, and law in relation to our present times and the past (as well as our possible futures).

These Common Good conversations consider the nature of health, justice, and morality … and how we should live our lives in relation to others.

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July

A speech bubble asking "Dude, where's my mask?" hovers over a safety mask covered by clouds. (Photos © FreeImages/werdok and andyculpin)
Dude, Where’s My Mask? (July 8, 2022)
A gold frame surround a neon sign that reads "Art" on a background of different colored rectangles. (Photos © FreeImages.com/iansparks, nettadi, and gul791)
The Artful Good (pt. III, July 1, 2022)

June

A gavel smashes the words "Equal Justice" under the cornice of the U.S. Supreme Court. (Photos © FreeImages/davidlat and gmarcelo)
Holding Pattern: Roe v. Wade (June 24, 2022)
The Deep Center logo, a blue circle with the word "Deep" in white, sits atop a blue and brown field of typed writing.
Digging Deep (June 17, 2022)
A Hartford Courant headline -- "Birth Control Law of State Nullified" -- hovers over a black-and-white photo of Dr. C. Lee Buxton and Estelle Griswold. (Photos © Planned Parenthood of Connecticut and the Hartford Courant)
Holding Pattern: Griswold v. Connecticut (June 10, 2022)
The Savannah Comedy Revue logo "stands" on a stage next to a microphone. (Logo © Savannah Comedy Revue)
Living for Laughs (June 3, 2022)

May

A gavel issues a holding about contraception. (Photos and images © WolfGordon and FreeImages/windchime and creationc)
Holding Pattern: Contraception and CT (May 27, 2022)
A coronavirus looms in the background of the logo for the TV show "Mission: Impossible."
(Pandemic) Predictions: Impossible (May 20, 2022)
A stack of books sits in a library, where a curved wall of books can be seen in the background.
Libraries and Literacy (May 13, 2022)
Image of Plato’s allegory of the cave, © 4edges, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
Crawling Out of the Cave (May 6, 2022)

April

Henry Knowles Beecher, 1962. Images © Massachusetts General Hospital Archives and Special Collections and The New England Journal of Medicine.
Reviving Our Virtue (April 29, 2022)
A line drawing of a tweed jacket hangs over a chair in an office filled with books, papers, and coffee cups. (Image © Savannah Simmons)
The Thin Tweed Line (April 22, 2022)
A coronavirus wears headphones. (Photos © FreeImages/0GuaRDiaN0 and ugaldew)
The Pitch of the Pandemic (April 15, 2022)
A marijuana plant and pills sit atop U.S. currency. (Photos © Jamesy0627144 and FreeImages/willsun and zager)
Drugged Up (Marihuana Tax Act, April 8, 2022)
A Harrison Tax Stamp hovers over a field of poppies. (Photo © FreeImages/Gansoman)
Drugged Up (Harrison Narcotics Tax Act, April 1, 2022)

March

The Collier's Weekly cover of "The Great American Fraud" by Samuel Hopkins Adams
Drugged Up (Patent Medicines, March 25, 2022)
The colors of the Ukrainian flag decorate a fence. (Image © Unsplash/Tina Hartung)
Coming From Ukraine (March 18, 2022)
The "She Has a Name" logo, from Georgia Southern University's "History of Costume" class exhibit, hovers over two dress forms from the show. (Photos © “She Has a Name” Fashion Exhibition)
She Has a Name (March 11, 2022)
A photo of Americans protesting Nazi Germany is part of the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum's "Americans and the Holocaust" traveling exhibit.
Americans and the Holocaust (March 4, 2022)

February

A dental mirror evaluates a set of teeth. (Photos © FreeImages/qr5 and plex)
To the Teeth (February 25, 2022)
A slide from a red apple stands out in a stack of slices from a green apple. (Photos © FreeImages/bizior and jsandsuhr)
The Nature of Prejudice (February 18, 2022)
Two green apples, one with a blemish, sit underneath the word "stigma" taken from Erving Goffman's seminal 1963 work. (Photo © FreeImages/b_heyer)
The Making and Markings of Stigma (February 11, 2022)
The novel coronavirus hovers over the U.S. flag and map of the nation. (Image © FreeImages/salingpusa)
The State of the Pandemic (February 4, 2022)

January

A vaccine vial and syringe and needle fight off the coronavirus in front of the U.S. Supreme Court. (Photos © FreeImages/davidlat and zeathiel)
To Vax or Not to Vax (January 28, 2022)
A broken heart is wrapped in gauze and put back together with a plaster bandage. (Photos © FreeImages/wgroesel and mckenna71)
Patching Up Our Public Health (January 21, 2022)
An eye, with the globe as the pupil, looks through a plastic model of the human head. (Photos © FreeImages/Avolore and joey26)
Pop Culture Presents … the Body (January 14, 2022)
The logo for the American Traditions Vocal Collection rides a wave of musical notes. (Images © FreeImages/fangol)
Sing It Proud, Savannah (January 7, 2022)