| Week Starting |
Monday |
Wednesday |
| The Professional-Patient Relationship and Its Complications |
| 27-Aug |
(1) New Orleans Hospital Staff Discussed Mercy Killings
(2) 'Five Days' Of Ambiguous Morality At Katrina-Hit Hospital
(3) Optional: The Deadly Choices at Memorial |
(1) Hippocratic Oath
(2) Four Models of the Physician-Patient Relationship - Emanuel and Emanuel |
| 3-Sep |
NO CLASS - Labor Day |
How do patients know? - Kukla |
| 10-Sep |
Epistemic Injustice and Illness - Kidd and Carel |
(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-Sep |
(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 |
Catch Up Day - No Reading |
| 24-Sep |
(1) Racial Cognition and the Ethics of Implicit Bias - Kelly and Roedder
(2 - Optional) Race, Ethnicity, and Pain Treatment: Striving to Understand the Causes and Solutions to the Disparities in Pain Treatment - Bonham
(3 - Optional) Finding Good Pain Treatment Is Hard. If You’re Not White, It’s Even Harder. |
(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 |
(1) The Agony of Opioid Withdrawal (TED Talk) - Rieder
(2) Optional: In Opioid Withdrawal, With No Help In Sight - Rieder |
First Do No Harm - NAM Special Report |
| 8-Oct |
MEET ON TUESDAY instead of Monday: Q: Is Addiction a Brain Disease or a Moral Failing? A: Neither - Heather |
Opioid Crisis: No Easy Fix to Its Social and Economic Determinants - Dasgupta, et. al. |
| On the Choice to Have a Child |
| 15-Oct |
What you can't expect when you're expecting - Paul |
Why it is Better Never to Come into Existence - Benatar |
| 22-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. |
Whose job is it to fight climate change - Kukla and Kukla-Manning |
| On the Choice to End a Pregnancy |
| 29-Oct |
Dworkin, Life's Dominion, pp. 9-35 and 68-101 |
Bun or Bump? - Finn |
| Aging and Dying |
|
Continue abortion discussion |
Gawande, Being Mortal, pp. 1-54 |
| 12-Nov |
Gawande, Being Mortal, pp. 55-111 |
Gawande, Being Mortal, pp. 111-148 |
| 19-Nov |
Gawande, Being Mortal, pp. 149-190 |
NO CLASS - Thanksgiving Break |
| 26-Nov |
Gawande, Being Mortal, pp. 191-230 |
PODCAST DISCUSSIONS
Group 1 Reading: Human dignity and the creation of human-nonhuman chimerasGroup 2 Reading:
https://bioethicsarchive.georgetown.edu/pcbe/background/workpaper6.html
https://www.geneticsandsociety.org/internal-content/reproductive-cloning-arguments-pro-and-con |
| 3-Dec |
PODCAST DISCUSSIONS (3, 4, & 5)
Group 3: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3890262/pdf/nihms495616.pdf
Group 4: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0024059&type=printable
Group 5: https://journalofethics.ama-assn.org/article/ethics-organ-transplantation-brief-history/2012-03; https://www.thehastingscenter.org/briefingbook/organ-transplantation/; https://sites.ualberta.ca/~pflaman/organtr.htm; https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0263931917300790 |
PODCAST DISCUSSIONS (6 & 7)
Group 6: http://annals.org/aim/fullarticle/2654458/ethics-legalization-physician-assisted-suicide-american-college-physicians-position-paper
Group 7: https://search-proquest-com.mutex.gmu.edu/docview/210637496?accountid=14541 |
