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Part One: Foundations of Bio-Medical Ethics and Modern "Bio-Politics"
1Section One: Introduction: Bio-Medical Ethics and Bio-Politics: From Clinical Practice and Medical Research to Crisis of Medical Humanitarianism in the Field
2Section Two: Principles of Ethical Medical Practice and Research: Autonomy, Justice, Beneficence, and Nonmaleficience

What is Bio-Medical Ethics?
3-4Section Three: Competing Discourses on Bioethics and Bio-Medical Practice - Anthropology, Feminism, Theology, and Law
5-7Section Four: The Creation of Doctors and the Clinical Gaze or "Whose Body Is It, Anyway?"Reflection paper 1 (Lecture 7)
8-9Section Five: Ethical Issues in the Practice of Medicine: Confidentiality and Disclosure; Patient Autonomy and Informed Consent
10-11Section Six: Dilemmas of Public Health Practice: The Limits of Resources and its AllocationReflection paper 2 (Lecture 10)
Part Two: Medical Technologies, the Body and the State
12-13Section Seven: Medical Research and Ethical Medical Experimentation - from Eugenics to Anti-Retroviral Drug TrialsDraft of first paper due (Lecture 12)
14-15Section Eight: Race, Contraception, and Family Planning: Contemporary Eugenics?First paper drafts returned with comments (Lecture 14)

Reflection paper 3 (Lecture 15)
Part Three: Globalizing Bioethics - The Politics of Reproduction
16-17Section Nine: The Politics of Gender, Reproductive Technologies, and Family Planning across CulturesRevised version of paper 1 due (Lecture 17)
18Section Ten: Infertility, Assisted Reproduction, Kinship, and Citizenship across CulturesReflection paper 4 (Lecture 18)
19-20Section Eleven: State Politics of Human Genetic Engineering, Stem Cell Research, Cloning, and "Surplus Embryos"

Lecture 20

Guest Speaker: Dr. James Sherley, MIT Assoc. Professor of Biological Engineering
Reflection paper 5 (Lecture 20)
Part Four: Playing God? Life, Death, Bodies, and Spirits
21-24Section Twelve: Organ Transplantation, End of Life Issues, and Death across CulturesDraft of second paper due 1 day after lecture 24
Part Five: Human Rights, Infectious Disease, and the Global Medical Commons
25-26Section Thirteen: Clinical Dilemmas, Public Health, and Global PharmaceuticalsPapers returned with preliminary grades (Lecture 25)

Final version of second paper due (for those who revise) 2 days after lecture 26

 








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