The assignments for this
week are similar to the last two weeks' assignments, except that
this week we begin to consider ethical issues in public health more
than those in clinical medical practice. The differences will become
evident as you start to discuss these cases. You will stay in the
same small
groups and this week discuss and
submit
reports
on two different groups of case studies. During the first half of
the week your group will discuss the group of case studies in chapter
7 and submit a Group Report summarizing your discussion; and in the
second half of the week you will discuss and submit a report on the
group of case studies in chapter 12 and then submit a Group Report.
Please complete your reading
of chapters 1 and 7 by Friday if possible. Your assignment is to
discuss the cases in that chapter on Friday and Saturday. Then on
Sunday your group will submit a summary of its discussions on any
of the cases and on the general topic of conflict of interest. Please
use the Discussions Questions provided in the book at the end of
each case to start your discussions. It will not be necessary to
answer every single discussion question, but you should address at
least one DQ from each case.
Your reading of chapter
12 and the news article should be completed by Sunday.
Your assignment is to discuss the four cases
in that chapter, plus the news article, on Sunday, Monday
and Tuesday so that on Tuesday your group can submit a summary
of
its discussions on any of the cases and on the general topic
of research
in vulnerable
populations. Please use the Discussions Questions provided in
the book at the end of each case to start your discussions. It
will not
be necessary
to answer every single discussion question, but you should address
at least one DQ from each case.
And again this week your
discussions will take place in your same Group folder. After discussing each chapter
thoroughly, you will put
together
a summary of the main themes you have discussed. Your summary
should include items you had agreement about and items you had
disagreement
about. You will post the summary into the Whole Class Group
folder. Again, decisions about how that group
report
will
be written, who will compose it, what it should say, etc, will
be left
to your own group.
Any discussing you might
like to do of the extra chapter you read can be done right there
in your small group discussion
folder.
Again, everyone in class
will be able to read (if they want to, it's not required) any or
all of the other groups' discussions,
but please
post messages only into your own group, and to the whole class
group.
This week is still a little
light on the required reading (unlike some coming weeks), so you
might take advantage of the time
to work
on your research project.