Approximate Weekly Schedule
Spring 2008

 

 

 

 

 

Week	Date	Work
1	Apr 3-9	• Definitions • Case studies • Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill
2	Apr 10-16	• Ethical relativism and ethical essentialism • Erskine Caldwell, "Saturday Afternoon" • Lisa Belkin, First Do No Harm
3	Apr 17-23	• Freeman & McDonnell, Tough Decisions (selections) • Research projects approved • Midterm Self Evaluation due
4	Apr 24-30	• Freeman & McDonnell, Tough Decisions (selections) • Codes of medical ethics
5	May 1-7	• Coughlin & Soskolne (eds), Case Studies in Public Health Ethics
6	May 8-14	• Feldshuh, Miss Evers' Boys • The Nuremberg Code • Universal Declaration of Human Rights
7	May 15-21	• 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 22-28	• Environmentally Induced Illnesses • Research projects posted
9	May 29-June 4	• Environmentally Induced Illnesses • Research projects discussed
10	June 5-11	• Ibsen/Miller, Enemy of the People • Wilson, Fear in the Fields • Final exam • Project Self Evaluation and Final Self Evaluation