Approximate Weekly Schedule
Summer 2010

 

 

 

 

 

Week	Date	Work
1	Jly 1-7	• Definitions • Case studies • Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill
2	Jly 8-12	• Ethical relativism and ethical essentialism • Erskine Caldwell, "Saturday Afternoon" • Lisa Belkin, First Do No Harm • Research projects approved
3	Jly 15-21	• Freeman & McDonnell, Tough Decisions (selections) • Codes of medical ethics • Midterm Self Evaluation due Tue of week 3
4	Jly 22-28	• Freeman & McDonnell, Tough Decisions (selections) • Codes of medical ethics
5	Jly 39-Aug 4	• Feldshuh, Miss Evers' Boys • The Nuremberg Code • Universal Declaration of Human Rights
6	Aug 5-11	• 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
7	Aug 12-18	• Environmentally Induced Illnesses • Research projects discussed
8	Aug 19-23 Highly Compressed Week	• Ibsen/Miller, Enemy of the People • Wilson, Fear in the Fields • Final exam • Project Self Evaluation and Final Self Evaluation • class ends this Monday