Readings for Bev Gray:
http://www.guttmacher.org/presentations/abort_slides.pdf
http://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/FB-Unintended-Pregnancy-US.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/us/politics/personhood-amendments-would-ban-nearly-all-abortions.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
Readings for Steve Warshaw:
http://spot.colorado.edu/~heathwoo/Phil160,Fall02/thomson.htm
http://www.guttmacher.org/presentations/abort_slides.pdf
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/26/us/politics/personhood-amendments-would-ban-nearly-all-abortions.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1
Readings:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/06/26/us/justices-bar-mandatory-life-sentences-for-juveniles.html
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/cert/10-9647 (you need only read the Introduction and "Facts" section)
http://www.law.cornell.edu/supct/cert/10-9646 (you need only read the Introduction and "Facts" section)
Session Leader: Dilip Barman readings:
Readings from Tom Regan and Andrew Linzey's 2010 book "Other Nations" (ISBN 978-160258237-8). I would like students to read: > * pp. 117-124, "The Dead Body and the Living Brain" by Oriana Fallaci
Web-based reading:
Animal Research
About Research
http://www.ncabr.org/aboutresearch/
Ignoring the Role of Animals in Medicine is Shortsighted
http://speakingofresearch.com/2011/08/30/ignoring-the-role-of-animals-in-medicine-is-narrow- minded/
http://static.userland.com/userLandDiscussArchive/msg019844.html
http://static.userland.com/userLandDiscussArchive/msg019851.html
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/free-sw.html
And some websites you might find interesting:
Open Source Initiative: opensource.org
Free Software Foundation: fsf.org
Creative Commons: creativecommons.org
opensource.com
Readings (and videos):
Principles of Sustainability: (Video) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FFCNCQleCuk&feature=player_embedded
Greenwashing: http://www.howstuffworks.com/greenwashing.htm
Choose one of the essays from this page: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2012/04/20/magazine/ethics-eating-meat.html
Readings for “Euthanasia”: David Klein
Is This Euthanasia?
Setting aside any legal prohibitions that might exist where you live, consider the following:
A 70-year-old man has cancer, is bed-ridden, and is in severe pain every day. Nothing further can be done to treat his cancer, and he desperately wants to die. He is admitted to the hospital with pneumonia, which could end his life, but which could be cured by antibiotics. As his physician, are you willing to withhold antibiotics and let him die? If he survives the pneumonia, would you be willing to provide him with pills that he could take to end his own life? If he is too weak to take the pills himself, would you be willing to help him do it?
Terry Schiavo – 2005
In 1990 at age 27, she suffered a cardiac arrest and was left in a persistent vegetative state. As a consequence, with no improvement after 15 years and multiple trials of non-conventional as well as conventional treatment, her husband, who was legal guardian under Florida law, sought to remove her feeding tube and allow her to die, as an end he felt she would have wanted, according to her prior statements. Her parents and sibs opposed this, and the ensuing series of legal maneuvers came to national attention. The cause was picked up by “right to life” advocates, and it became a national political and religious issue. What do you think the courts should decide in this case? Why?
Readings for Anthony Deangelo
URL(s) for the students to read prior to your session (3-5 pp.):
http://www.nature.com/scitable/topicpage/ethics-of-genetic-testing-medical-insurance-and-651
Readings for Allison Ashley-Koch and Blair Anderson:
"The Ultimate Genetic Test" and "Informed Consent for Whole Genome Sequencing" (attached pdf files)
Ashley-Koch Blair readings 1.pdf
Ashley-Koch Blair readings 2.pdf
no reading assisignments
Readings for Ershela Sims:
Belmont Report : http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/humansubjects/guidance/belmont.html
Belmont Report Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W7sfIA1dIGQ
Nuremburg code: http://www.hhs.gov/ohrp/archive/nurcode.html
Reading:
Doctors say pedophile lost urge after brain tumor removed
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2003-07-28-pedophile-tumor_x.htm
Video/audio resources:
1. The Great Debate: Can science tell us right from wrong?
http://thesciencenetwork.org/programs/the-great-debate
(See presentations by Sam Harris and Simon Blackburn)
2. Marilyn McCord Adams on Evil
http://philosophybites.com/2009/07/marilyn-mccord-adams-on-evil.html
URL(s) for the students to read prior to the session
http://pewforum.org/Gay-Marriage-and-Homosexuality/A-Contentious-Debate-Same-Sex-Marriage-in-the-US.aspx
http://www.balancedpolitics.org/same_sex_marriages.htm
no readings
http://www.gsusignal.com/2.14076/foreign-language-should-not-be-required-for-high-school-1.1952306?compArticle=yes#.UDuRwvnlt8G
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/opinion/sunday/is-algebra-necessary.html?_r=1
http://blogs.ajc.com/momania/2009/08/31/should-students-forget-the-classics-choose-own-books/
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/06/california-assembly-votes-to-further-dilute-arts-in-high-school-graduation-requirements-.html