| Lec # | Topics | key dates |
|---|---|---|
| Part One: Foundations of Bio-Medical Ethics and Modern "Bio-Politics" | ||
| 1 | Section One: Introduction: Bio-Medical Ethics and Bio-Politics: From Clinical Practice and Medical Research to Crisis of Medical Humanitarianism in the Field | |
| 2 | Section Two: Principles of Ethical Medical Practice and Research: Autonomy, Justice, Beneficence, and Nonmaleficience What is Bio-Medical Ethics? | |
| 3-4 | Section Three: Competing Discourses on Bioethics and Bio-Medical Practice - Anthropology, Feminism, Theology, and Law | |
| 5-7 | Section Four: The Creation of Doctors and the Clinical Gaze or "Whose Body Is It, Anyway?" | Reflection paper 1 (Lecture 7) |
| 8-9 | Section Five: Ethical Issues in the Practice of Medicine: Confidentiality and Disclosure; Patient Autonomy and Informed Consent | |
| 10-11 | Section Six: Dilemmas of Public Health Practice: The Limits of Resources and its Allocation | Reflection paper 2 (Lecture 10) |
| Part Two: Medical Technologies, the Body and the State | ||
| 12-13 | Section Seven: Medical Research and Ethical Medical Experimentation - from Eugenics to Anti-Retroviral Drug Trials | Draft of first paper due (Lecture 12) |
| 14-15 | Section 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 | ||
| 16-17 | Section Nine: The Politics of Gender, Reproductive Technologies, and Family Planning across Cultures | Revised version of paper 1 due (Lecture 17) |
| 18 | Section Ten: Infertility, Assisted Reproduction, Kinship, and Citizenship across Cultures | Reflection paper 4 (Lecture 18) |
| 19-20 | Section 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 | ||
| 21-24 | Section Twelve: Organ Transplantation, End of Life Issues, and Death across Cultures | Draft of second paper due 1 day after lecture 24 |
| Part Five: Human Rights, Infectious Disease, and the Global Medical Commons | ||
| 25-26 | Section Thirteen: Clinical Dilemmas, Public Health, and Global Pharmaceuticals | Papers returned with preliminary grades (Lecture 25) Final version of second paper due (for those who revise) 2 days after lecture 26 |