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Investigating ethical issues in medicine and nursing: treating dying patients, right to health care, nurse/physician conflicts, health and basic values, new technologies, and medical bureaucracy.
Course Objectives
Course Requirements
Grading
Reading
Web Resources
Class Schedule (updated April 2)
Semester Schedule (html)
Lecture Notes (posted weekly)
Supplementary Reading Material
Types of Ethical Theories
How to Read a Case I
How to Read a Case II
1996 AMA Code
Reading SAL: Wk 3, 4
Court Cases Relevant to Refusing Treatment
Court Cases Relevant to Futile Treatment
Reading SAL: Wk 5
HIPAA regs
California Advance Directive Form
Old Enough: HCR
Reading SAL: Wk 6
Reading SAL: Wk 7
The Case of Baby K
Reading SAL: Wk 8.1, defining death
Reading SAL: Wk 8.2, Physician Assisted Suicide
Rachels on Euthanasia
Rethinking the Ethics of Vital Organ Donation
When is Dead Really Dead?
Fatal Flaw: The current definition of Death
UNOS Allocation Policy
Fairness in Allocation and Delivery
Equality, Justice and Rightness
Sandra Jensen
Reading SAL: Wk 10
Reading SAL: Wk 11
Daniels: International Health Inequalities
Euthanasia and Katrina
Dignitas Personae
Kass: Making Babies (1972)
Kass: The Wisdom of Repugnance
Kass: Preventing a Brave New World
Responsible Use of Cognition Enhancing Drugs
IVF Services
Buchanan: Eugenics as a Case Study
Reading SAL: Wk 12
Reading SAL: Wk 13
Reading SAL: Wk 15
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