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Bioethics Reading Schedule

Read each of the readings assigned for the day before you come to class! The links on this page will take you directly to the reading, though you will need a password for some of them, which I'll provide to you in class. Readings with no link are to be found in Being Mortal by Atul Gawande, which you'll need to purchase (e-books are fine!).

Week Starting Tuesday Thursday
The Professional-Patient Relationship and Its Complications
27-Aug Introductions and Overview (1) Hippocratic Oath
(2) Four Models of the Physician-Patient Relationship - Emanuel and Emanuel
3-Sept Continue Four Models (No New Reading) How do patients know? - Kukla
10-Sept (1) Epistemic Injustice and Illness - Kidd and Carel

(2 - Optional) Epistemic Injustice - McKinnon

 (1) Black Mothers Keep Dying After Giving Birth. Shalon Irving's Story Explains Why
(2) Black Mothers Share the Devastating Impact of Racism in Maternal Health Care
17-Sept Form Podcast Groups in Class

 

 (1) There Is a Hidden Epidemic of Doctors Abusing Women in Labor, Doulas Say
(2) Domesticating Bodies: The Role of Shame in Obstetric Violence - Shabot and Korem
(3 - Optional) Kate Manne on The Ezra Klein Show
24-Sept (1) Racial Cognition and the Ethics of Implicit Bias - Kelly and Roedder

(1) Pain and Ethnicity - Wyatt
(2) Reducing Racial Bias Among Health Care Providers - Burgess, et.al.
(3) How can providers reduce unconscious bias?
The Opioid Crisis and The Medical Profession
1-Oct First Essay Due (1) The Agony of Opioid Withdrawal (TED Talk) - Rieder
(2-PRIORITIZE) Addiction and the Brain Development, Not Disease - Lewis
(3 - Optional) Q: Is Addiction a Brain Disease or a Moral Failing? A: Neither - Heather
(4 - Optional) The Neuroscience of Addiction with Mark Lewis (YouTube)Opioid Epidemic PPT
8-Oct Podcast Topic Chosen

(1-PRIORITIZE) Addiction and the Brain Development, Not Disease - Lewis

(2) Opioid Crisis: No Easy Fix to Its Social and Economic Determinants - Dasgupta, et. al.
(3 - Optional) Raj Chetty on The Ezra Klein Show

 (1) The value of harm reduction for injection drug use: A clinical and public health ethics analysis - Vearrier, Laura
(2) What are Supervised Injection Sites? (YouTube)
(3) Benefits of Supervised Injection Sites (YouTube)
(4) Doing Drugs (Research) Right - Dan Ciccirone (TED Talk)
(5 - Optional) Treating Addictions: Harm Reduction in Clinical Care and Prevention - Drucker, et.al.
On the Choice to Have a Child
15-Oct Fall Break - No Class Paper for Podcast Selected

Opioid Epidemic Wrap-Up
 22-Oct Why it is Better Never to Come into Existence - Benatar Why it is Better Never to Come into Existence - Benatar
Aging and Dying
29-Oct  

(1) Should we be having kids in the age of climate change?
(2) Population Engineering and the Fight Against Climate Change - Hickey, et.al.

(3) Whose job is it to fight climate change - Kukla and Kukla-Manning'

Climate Change PowerPoint

Second Essay Prompt Posted

 Catch-up Day
5-Nov Draft Podcast Outline Due

Gawande, Being Mortal, pp. 1-54

 Gawande, Being Mortal, pp. 55-111
12-Nov Gawande, Being Mortal, pp. 111-148 Gawande, Being Mortal, pp. 149-190

Second Essay Due (Thursday, Nov 14)
19-Nov Gawande, Being Mortal, pp. 191-230 Assisted Suicide Reading TBD
26-Nov Student Podcast Presentations NO CLASS - Thanksgiving Break
3-Dec Student Podcast Presentations Student Podcast Presentations