Monday, April 23, 2018

Final Study guide

Please comment if I missed anything. Also, sorry about any formatting errors or inconsistencies I was in a rush. I did not include the quiz questions from any post two as we never received those answers in class.
-Zach Nix


Eugenics
2. T/F  In the near future will our DNA determine  everything about us?
4. How is success determined?
6. How many cells do we share a day?

Human Experimentation
1.  How old was the child Edward Jenner infected with smallpox? 
2.  What was being tested in the Porton down Experiments?
3. (T/F) Research involving humans is intrinsically dubious.
4.  What year did a U.S government funded trail treat pregnant HIV patients with placebos?
5.  What does REC stand for and what is its purpose?
6.   Under what circumstances is it necessary to experiment on vulnerable subjects such as children, or the cognitively impaired.
Effects of hormone injected meats
2. Name an illness linked to the exposure of FDA approved hormones.
4/6. /5./6. Name 3 of the six different hormones currently approved by the FDA.
8. . Lifetime exposure to which hormone is associated with increased risk of getting breast cancer?

Surrogacy
2. What country is the world approaching for surrogate mothers?
4.Who earns the profits?
6. How many orphans live in India?
Hippocratic oath (to tell or not to tell)
2.What has the classical Hippocratic oath been summarized as a solemn promise of (only name two)?
4. What is the seventh point under the domain "Communication, Partnership, and Teamwork"




Me before Euthenasia
2. What did Will choose to do?
4. T/F The option for euthanasia is readily available in all countries.
Autonomy vs Paternal(Parental)ism in Regards to Immunization
2. T/F Vaccinated individuals can still die from vaccines.
4. What would Kant likely say about mandated immunizations?
6. What does MTSU require you provide in order to stay in their dorms?
Guided human evolution
2. The first signs of life happened on Earth how long ago?
4.How long ago did the big bang occur?
6.Evolution does not necessarily favor the what?
8.Neo-evolution as described by Fineberg is not simply natural, but what?
10.What two scientists independently developed techniques to encourage the natural process of evolution to work faster and to lead to desirable proteins in a more efficient way?
Solitary confinement
2. What was the crime did commit? 
4. T/F the prisoners real name was Gregg Marcantel. 
6. Why did he put hisself through this process? 
8. Level six is divided into three separate units where it houses ___ inmates. ( a number) 
10. How many people in total have the inmates killed?
Complications
2.      What does EKG stand for?
4.      What are the letters for the three main waves from an EKG?
6.      Baxt described an “artificial neural network” as a
In Class Video (feel free to answer while the video is playing)
2.      What won’t put the blood back in the patient?
4.      What hour of the surgeon’s rotation was he on?
6.      What happened to the photos taken? 

Abortion
2. What are five characteristics of the "typical woman" who ends her pregnancy early?
4. How many abortions are performed each year in the United States?
6. Some states require the woman planning on getting an abortion to notify their ________ if they are under aged, or their _________ if they have one.
8. What was the first US federal law on the subject?
10. In 1973, the Roe v Wade law, in the opinion written by US Supreme Court justice Harry Blackmun, the court ruled that a woman had a right to an abortion during what part of the pregnancy?

Uglies
2. Who/what are the “Rusties”?
4. True or False: The Operation is an optional cosmetic surgery for the rich caste.
6/8 if you can list 1  thing (separate parts of the surgery) that would be done in the Operation for each number.
10. What is the purpose of the Operation?


Organ Transplantation
2. (T/F) This kind of research is almost impossible to do in the United States.
4. Name one of the reserchers for which the reaction to their study became an object lesson in why doctors avoid this kind of research?
6. What percentage of IRB members thought the trial was human subjects research?




Science awareness
2.)  T/F: 97% of climate scientists agree that human caused climate change is occurring?
4.)  T/F: In 2014, the PEW research institutes conducted an analysis that determined only 37% of Americans thought GMO foods were safe, while 57% thought of them as unsafe
6.)  T/F: The herd immunity goal of the CDC in 2014 was met or exceeded, where the goal was 90%.
8.)  T/F: Only 23% of parents said they had NO concerns about vaccinations
10.) T/F: Dr. Wakefield’s study, published in “the Lancet” was completely legit, with minimal shady undertones. 
Life extension
2. How did my cat die?
4. Does this post assume Body-Swapping will objectify our bodies?
6. Does this post assert that Cybernetics will be popular?
Is autism the next stage in human evolution
2. What was the name of Dustin Hoffman's character in Rain Man?

4. What is the Greek word for self?

6. How did Lorna Wing describe the autistic spectrum or continuum?

8. What year was Asperger's syndrome included as a separate disorder?

10. How much can in-home therapy cost per year for parents with children with an autism disorder?







April 5th Quiz

2. How much revenue did the rotavirus vaccine and Lipitor generate, respectively?
4. What did Jacobsen v. Massachussetts (1905) uphold?
6. What paradoxical emotional state does Biss say is induced by citizenship in this country?
8. Whose errant article "Deadly Immunity" was retracted, but only in its corrected version?
10. What was the bioethicist who said "it's not a matter of if, but when" referring to?

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