Dr Tom Kerns
North Seattle Community College

 

 

Approximate Weekly Schedule
Summer 2011

 

Week	Date	Work
1	June 30-Jly 6	• Definitions • Case studies • Immanuel Kant and John Stuart Mill
2	Jly 7-13	• Ethical relativism and ethical essentialism • Erskine Caldwell, "Saturday Afternoon" • Lisa Belkin, First Do No Harm • Research projects approved
3	Jly 14-20	• Freeman & McDonnell, Tough Decisions (selections) • Codes of medical ethics • Midterm Self Evaluation due Tue of week 3
4	Jly 21-27	• Freeman & McDonnell, Tough Decisions (selections) • Codes of medical ethics
5	Jly 28-Aug 3	• Feldshuh, Miss Evers' Boys • The Nuremberg Code • Universal Declaration of Human Rights
6	Aug 4-10	• 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 11-17	• Environmentally Induced Illnesses • Research projects discussed
8	Aug 18-22 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