BIOETHICS FOR THE PEOPLE PODCAST
“A heroic [podcast] that stands against the tide”—Reviewer 1
“Extremely unscholarly at best” —Reviewer 2
Bioethics for the People Presents: INKED BY FAITH
A new project from the Bioethics for the People team; and it needs you.
We’re collecting first-hand stories from people affected by Operation Tat-Type, a Cold War civil-defense program (1950–1953) that blood-typed and tattooed thousands of American civilians with their blood type; including elementary school children. The program moved through everyday civic life—schools, churches, county fairs, Rotary Clubs—reaching communities across Michigan, Indiana, Utah, and beyond.
If you, or someone in your family, carries a blood-type tattoo from the early 1950s, we want to hear what it meant then and what it means now. Your memories help surface a history that lived quietly on people’s bodies.
If this is you, please share your story HERE!
Bioethics for the People is a podcast for the uneasy questions; the ones that don’t resolve neatly and shouldn’t.
Hosted by Devan Stahl and Tyler Gibb, the show sits at the fault lines where science, medicine, technology, and history collide with law, philosophy, public policy, and lived clinical reality.
Each episode invites listeners into careful, curious conversations about how we decide what counts as right, permissible, or necessary when the stakes are human lives and imperfect systems.
This is not a podcast about tidy conclusions. It’s about how people actually reason under pressure; how institutions justify their choices; and how moral certainty often dissolves on contact with the real world.
Lots of questions.
Lots of discussion.
Few answers.
