Questions Apr 5-7

Beyond 32-34, Lifelines 12-13... No class Tuesday, but you can see faculty candidate Gregory Slack discussing "the value of philosophy" in Peck Hall 318 at 3:30 if you like. 

1. How did James Rockwell and his subject cohorts sabotage their drug study?

2. Why is speed critical in getting drugs approved and on the shelves as early as possible?

3. What motivated homeless alcoholics to participate in trials for Eli Lilly, according to its director of clinical pharmacology?

4. Guinea pigs rely mainly on what to insure their safety?

5. The target audience for the jobzine Guinea Pig Zero was who?

6. DARPA projects include research on drugsto keep soldiers awake and fed for how long?

7. Radiation exposure from nuclear testing on American soil in the '50s was comparable to what?

8. Fear of chemical weapons during the Gulf War led to the administration of what vaccine prior to FDA approval?

9. Gulf War vets and their children have been diagnosed with what?

10. What percentage of DARPA projects fail?

11. How did New York city law enforcement officials help researchers in the mid '90s?

DQ

• Should "guineau-pigging" be a job?
• For how long should drug patents be issued?
• Have you participated in any drug trials? Do you want to?
• "What happens when both parties involved in a trial see the enterprise primarily as a way of making money?" 292
• Are for-profit IRBs inherently compromised?
• COMMENT on the Susan Endersbe case. 295
• How should test subjects be procured? Should there be a cap on how much doctors can earn for procuring them?
• How would you fix our "patchwork regulatory system"? 300
• Should medical research aimed at enhancing soldiers' competence, stamina, and endurance be held to different ethical standards?  Is all really fair in (love and) war?
• Is there an ethically-defensible military rationale for "race-based" or "man-break" tests? 302
• What's your response to any of the questions at the top of p.302?
• Should all soldiers be required to sign waivers allowing the administration of any drugs deemed necessary or appropriate? Does military service tacitly allow drug experimentation in the interests of "national security"?

Lifelines

1. What is CFR and what does it remind Dr. W of?

2. What are ACEs and what have studies shown about them?

3. What is the concept of "going upstream"?

4. What are the ABCs of Safe Sleep?

5. What's one unintended consequence of school closures in places like Baltimore? 203

6. What taught Dr. W the lobbying power of big moneyed interests?

7. What letter did health commissioners around the country write to te Trump transition committee, and what was the response?

8. What's personal about the Trump administration's immigration policies for Dr. W?

9. What lawsuit did Baltimore win against Trump?

10. Women without prenatal care are seven times more likely to what?

11. From whom did Dr. W learn more about babies than in med school?

DQ

• Why do so many social service agencies fail to protect children? Are they negligent, or do parents simply remain the first and last line of defense?
• How can we do a better job of encouraging irresponsible people not to become parents?
• Do you like the "dam" metaphor? Is there a better one?
• Why is SIDS still a mystery? 195
• Should every state adopt a version of Vision for Baltimore? Should the country? 200-01
• If you were given $millions for public health, where would you invest it? 202
• Can Planned Parenthood ever be de-politicized?
• What do you think of the "conscience clause" meant to protect the religious liberties of health professionals? 212
• Do you agree with Dr. W's views on "the nature of the healing professions"? 212
• Do working moms still not have enough positive role models? 218
• Should guaranteed, extended maternity leave be legislated nationally?

Health news... Weekly health quiz

And speaking of DARPA...

Beyond 35-36, Lifelines 14-15

1. "Gen IVF women" like Miriam Zoll began thinking what, in the 70s and 80s, about their prospects for motherhood?

2. Women who experience failed fertility treatments often exhibit symptoms of what?

3. The ART failure rate for American women over 40 in 2012 was what?

4. How much does surrogacy typically cost in the U.S.?

5. Zoll and her husband were "aghast" at what, during their search for an egg donor?

6. What has become a cultural expectation for many LGBT people?

7. What's the Internet's role in fashioning "queer intimacies"?

8. Who fills the need of outsourced surrogacy?

9. Artificial gametes and cloning would not help who, but would negatively impact who?

10. New reproductive technologies provoke a rethinking of kinship markers while raising what questions?



DQ

• Why do so many couples have an "obsession to procreate"? Would they be well-advised to try and re-direct that obsession to parenting (and perhaps adopting)?
• COMMENT on any of the "ten things I wish someone had told me..." (323 f.)
• COMMENT on the "new grounding assumption..." (329)
• COMMENT on any of the questions at the bottom of p.334.

Lifelines
1. When first contacted by Planned Parenthood Dr. Wen first thought her work was in public health, not what? But on further reflection she realized that PP is part of what?

2. Why were PP clinics providing proportionally more abortions and fewer other health services?

3. What was Dr. Wen's vision for PP, and her "mantra"?

4. One of Dr. Wen's main points was that health care shouldn't be what?

5. What drove abortion rights groups to resist all restrictions?

6. PP's advocacy was fully aligned with what?

7. What did Dr. Wen learns about the search committee that had hired her?

DQ

• Was the PP board right to be hyper-sensitive about stigmatizing abortion?
• Do most women have generally-negative thoughts about abortion as a necessary recourse? 239
• Was the physicians' way of formally complying with the state-legislated inaccurate script appropriate? 242
• Should an organization that runs health centers be involved in ideological political fights? 247