Introduction to Biomedical Ethics - Course Readings at a Glance


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August 26th, 2004

No Reading - First Class

August 31st, 2004

Blackburn. Being Good, pages. 9-42.

September 2nd, 2004

Blackburn. Being Good, pages 43-55.

Singer. Practical Ethics. "Chapter 1: About Ethics" pages 1-15.

September 7th, 2004

Singer. Practical Ethics. "Chapter 2: Equality and Its Implications," pages 16-54.

September 9th, 2004

No Reading.

September 14th, 2004

Kagan. "Doing Harm" (Course Packet)

September 16th, 2004

Rachels. ''Death and evil" (Course Packet)

September 21st, 2004

Handout on Abortion (Course web page)

Roe v. Wade (Course web page)

September 23rd, 2004

Noonan. 'An Almost Absolute Value in History' (Course Packet)

September 28th, 2004

Thomson. "A Defense of Abortion" (Course web page)

Essay on Thomson due.

September 30th, 2004

Thomson. "A Defense of Abortion" (Course web page)

October 5th, 2004

Warren. "On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion" (Course Packet)

October 7th, 2004

Singer. Practical Ethics. "Chapter 6. Taking life: The Embryo and the Fetus," pages 135-174.

October 12th, 2004

Marquis. "Why Abortion is Immoral" (Course Packet)

October 19th, 2004

Mid-term

October 21st, 2004

Singer. Practical Ethics. "Chapter 7. Taking Life: Humans," pages 175-217.

October 26th, 2004

Kass. "Neither for love nor money: Why doctors must not kill" (Course Packet)

October 28th, 2004

Dworkin, Frey, Bok. Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide. Introduction & Chapters 1 & 2.

November 2nd, 2004

Dworkin, Frey, Bok. Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide. Chapters 3 & 4.

November 4th, 2004

Dworkin, Frey, Bok. Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide. Chapters 5 & 6.

November 9th, 2004

Dworkin, Frey, Bok. Euthanasia and Physician-Assisted Suicide. Chapters 7 & 8.

November 11th, 2004

Rawls, Thomson, Nozick, Dworkin, Scanlon, Nagel. "The Philosopher's Brief" (Course web page)

November 16th, 2004

Singer. Practical Ethics. "Chapter 5: Taking Life: Animals," pages 110-134.

November 18th, 2004

LaFollette. "Animal Rights and Human Wrongs," (Course web page)

November 30th, 2004

No Reading - Discussion of Animal testing

December 2nd, 2004

No Reading - Discussion of course themes

December 7th, 2004

No Reading - Exam Review

December 9th, 2004

No Reading - Exam Review



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