Approximate Weekly Schedule
Spring 2009

 

 

 

 

 

Week	Date	Work
1	April 9-15	• Definitions • Case studies • Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill
2	April 16-22	• Ethical relativism and ethical essentialism • Erskine Caldwell, "Saturday Afternoon" • Lisa Belkin, First Do No Harm
3	April 23-29	• Freeman & McDonnell, Tough Decisions (selections) • Research projects approved • Midterm Self Evaluation due
4	April 30-May 6	• Freeman & McDonnell, Tough Decisions (selections) • Codes of medical ethics
5	May 7-13	• Coughlin & Soskolne (eds), Case Studies in Public Health Ethics
6	May 14-20	• Feldshuh, Miss Evers' Boys • The Nuremberg Code • Universal Declaration of Human Rights • Midterm exam (details in classroom)
7	May 21-27	• Ethics Review Committees • Edward Jenner's vaccination experiment • WHO/CIOMS International Ethical Guidelines for Biomedical Reserach Involving Human Subjects • Jenner on Trial • Human pesticide studies • Research projects posted
8	May 28-June 3	• Environmentally Induced Illnesses • Research projects posted
9	June 4-10	• Environmentally Induced Illnesses • Research projects discussed
10	June 11- 17	• Ibsen/Miller, Enemy of the People • Wilson, Fear in the Fields • Final exam • Project Self Evaluation and Final Self Evaluation