write a 1,000-word final reflection on an ethical health issue of their choice.
Moral, Medical, Political, cultural issues.
Rubric
Thesis
Reflection has a clear thesis statement that follows throughout the entire piece.
Dilema
Moral and/or ethical dilemma(s) is clearly defined and explained.
An understanding, analysis, and evaluation of key medical ethical concepts is demonstrated.
Class theme
Reflection analyzes dilemma in terms of class themes (like “local moral worlds”).
Evidence
Reflection uses at least 2 sources from class readings, one of which must be Moral Laboratories. ( I can provide all the reading)
Reflection uses at least 3 academic or scholarly sources from outside of class readings.
Reflection is properly cited according to the Chicago Manual of Style-Author Date format.
Writing
Includes appropriate organizational pattern and a writing quality based on recommendations given throughout the term by the professor and teaching assistant.
Course Schedule and Readings
Day 1, June 18: Medical Anthropology, Health, Healing, and Ethics
Bioethics and Medical Anthropology
Harris, John. 2001. “Introduction: The Scope and Importance of Bioethics” in John Harris, ed. Bioethics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Geertz, Clifford. 1973. “Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture” in The Interpretation of Cultures: Selected Essays. New York: Basic Books.
Marshall, Patricia. 1992. “Anthropology and Bioethics.” Medical Anthropology Quarterly 6(1): 49–73.
Sargent, Carolyn and Carolyn Smith-Morris. 2006. “Questioning our Principles: Anthropological Contributions to Ethical Dilemmas in Clinical Practice.” Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 15(2): 123–134.
Day 2, June 19: Power/Knowledge
Health Technology
Epstein, Steven. 1996. Impure Science: AIDS, Activism, and the Politics of Knowledge. Berkeley: University of California Press. Chapter 6 and Conclusion.
Berk, Elizabeth. 2018. “A Kind of Disassembled and Reassembled, Post-Modern, Personal and Technical Self: Agency and the Insulin Pump.”
Inhorn, Marcia. 2016. “Religion and Reproductive Technologies.” In Understanding and Applying Medical Anthropology, edited by Peter Brown and Svea Closser. New York: Routledge. 274-276.
Stahl, Devan. 2018. Imaging and Imagining Illness: Becoming Whole in a Broken Body. Eugene, Oregon: Cascade Books. Chapter 1.
Day 3, June 20: Pharma
Petryna, Adriana, Arthur Kleinman, and Andrew Lakoff. 2006. Global Pharmaceuticals: Ethics, Markets, Practices. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. Chapters 2 and 9 (“Globalizing Human Subjects Research” and “Treating AIDS”).
Day 4, June 21: Bioethics and Science and Technology Studies
Hamdy, Sherine. 2013. “Not Quite Dead: Why Egyptian Doctors Refuse the Diagnosis of Death by Neurological Criteria.” Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics 34(2): 147–160.
Scheper-Hughes, Nancy. 2000. “The Global Traffic in Human Organs.” Current Anthropology 41(2): 191–224.
Day 5, June 24: Human Subjects Research
Philippe Bourgois. 1999. “Theory, Method, and Power in Drug and HIV-Prevention Research: A Participant-Observer’s Critique.” Substance Use and Misuse 34(14): 2155-2172.
Benatar, Soloman. 2001. “Justice and Medical Research: A Global Perspective.” Bioethics 15(4): 333-340.
Day 6, June 25: Disaster Ethics
Fink, Sheri. 2009. “The Deadly Choices at Memorial.” The New York Times Magazine.
Day 7, June 26: Moral Laboratories
Mattingly, Cheryl. 2014. Moral Laboratories: Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life. Berkeley: University of California Press. Chapters 1 and 3.
Day 8, June 27: Moral Laboratories
Mattingly, Cheryl. 2014. Moral Laboratories: Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life. Berkeley: University of California Press. Chapters 5 and 7.
Day 9, June 28: Moral Laboratories
Mattingly, Cheryl. 2014. Moral Laboratories: Family Peril and the Struggle for a Good Life. Berkeley: University of California Press. Chapter 8.
