Further information: Karen Gervais, Issues in Bioethics: Clinical and Public Health Ethics
Readings:
Reading materials for this course will be mailed to each class member by Priority Mail.
- Reading Packet ($11.15)
- Free copy of Gervais, Redefining Death, Yale University Press, 1986
Total cost for Reading Packet and mailing: $25.00. This amount will be added to tuition upon registration for the course.
Schedule:
ALL PAGE NUMBERS REFER TO PAGINATION IN THE PACKET OF READINGS
Week 1: Introduction to Public Health and Clinical Ethics
Bioethical Positions Inventory 1-2
Article, “Please Don’t Tell” 3-4
Public Health Ethics: Cases Spanning the Globe, Barrett et al ch 1 5-22
Week 2: Introduction to Public Health and Clinical Ethics (continued)
Public Health Ethics: Cases Spanning the Globe, Barrett et al ch 1 22-37
***Clinical Ethics Consensus Statements 38-40
Ethical Dimensions 1 pager 41
Homeless Patient Decision-making Case (Gervais) 42-45
Week 3: Infectious Disease Pandemic
“For the Good of Us All,” Minnesota Pandemic Ethics Project 2010 46-98
COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation: National Academies Press, chapter 3 99-123
“Is it Lawful and Ethical to Prioritize Racial Minorities…?” Schmidt et al 124-25
“Guidance for COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation,” Hastings Center, 1/21 126-37
Pandemic Scenarios for Discussion (3) 138-40
Week 4: Culturally-Responsive Health Care
Review Clinical Ethics Consensus Statements (*** above)
Article, “Bioethics and Society” Gervais 141-45
Hmong cases from Healing by Heart
Infant with Down Syndrome and a Heart Defect and Commentaries 146-59
Vawter: Applying Healing by Heart Model 160-68
Pregnant Woman with Brain Hemorrhage and Commentary 169-76
Week 5: Disease-Specific Decision-making: Dementia
Review Clinical Ethics Consensus Statements (*** above)
John Arras article 177-85
Week 6: Death: A biological fact or a social construct?
Redefining Death, Gervais (free book)
Encyclopedia of Bioethics article on Def’n of Death, Gervais 186-97
Dead Donor Rule, Rodriguez-Arias 198-201
Week 7: Organ Donation and Procurement
Verheijde et al 202-14
Issue 19: Troug, Miller, Veatch 215-19
Week 8: Dying Well: Palliative Options
Repeat Bioethical Positions Inventory, compare to answers 8 weeks ago – COMPARE TO YOUR RESPONSES AT BEGINNING OF COURSE
“Palliative Care Options of Last Resort” (article) 220-25
Case for discussion 226
“When the Personal Becomes the Professional,” Rebecca Dresser 227-31