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BIOMEDICAL ETHICS

Text: Gregory Pence, Classic Cases in Medical Ethics, Fourth Edition (McGraw-Hill, 2004)

Assignments: Chapter assignments below are from the text.  Additional readings will be handed out in class for the next session.   Before each session, email me at least three discussion points: concepts, passages, or arguments you do not fully understand, questions you would pose for discussion, etc.  Send these to me by 1:30 on class day at  (hacklerchris@uams.edu)

The topics discussed will be determined in part by student interest. Below is a typical schedule.

 Provisional Schedule:

Session 2:

 

Concepts and Theories of Ethics

Handout from Rachels

Session 3: 

 

Comas

Chapter 2

Session 4: 

 

Withdrawing Treatment and Suicide

Chapter 3

Session 5:

 

Medical Futility and Inappropriate Care

Handouts

Session 6:

 

Physician-assisted Dying

Chapter 4

Session 7:

 

Hospital Ethics Committees

Handouts

Session 8: 

 

Ethics Consult Service Meeting

Room TBD; 12 noon (lunch served)

Session 9:

 

Distribution of Vaccines During a Pandemic

Arkansas Disaster Rationing Committee Report

Session 10:

 

Reproductive Issues: abortion, IVF, stem cells, cloning

Chapters 6-8

Session 11:

 

IRBs and Human Research

Chapter 11

Session 12:

 

Psychiatric Issues: commitment, homelessness

Chapter 15

Session 13:

 

Health Care Reform

Chapter 18

 

Remaining 

TBD 

 

For more information please contact:
University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences
Department of Medical Humanities

Email: humanities@uams.edu
4301 West Markham Slot# 646
Phone: (501) 661-7970
Fax: (501) 661-7967