Questions January 23

Questions pertaining to the assigned reading will normally be posted prior to each class.Always share your thoughts in the comments space below each day's post (at least three comments per class, so you can shade the whole diamond on the scorecard when you come to class and receive full participation credit each time... more than that gets you extra credit). Give yourself a base on the scorecard for every question you posted a response to before class. (You can also respond to your own questions(s) or your classmates' posted comments. Respond not merely with the authors' textual statements but also with your own thoughts & reflections.) 25 exam questions will pertain to the required texts. Additional bonus questions pertaining to the recommended texts will also appear. 

What is Bioethics? (Basics 1); Premonition Intro/prologue/1

1. "Bioethics" just means what?
2. What 40-year U.S. study denied information and treatment to its subjects?
3. What did Ivan Ilich warn about in Medical Nemesis?
4. In what issues has the WHO been very active?
5. How has Bioethics broadened its horizons?
6. Bioethics has broken free of what mentality?
7. With what must the main method of Bioethics be concerned?
8. Are there any important bioethical issues you think Campbell has neglected to mention in ch.1 

1. Lewis's previous book asked what question?
2. What did The Lancet point out about the COVID death rate in the U.S.?
3. Bob Glass learned what, that he'd had no idea of, in The Great Influenza? Did you know that, before COVID?
4. How did young Charity Dean cheer herself up?
5. (Your Premonition questions)

A Bioethics MOOC-

 

Some Bioethics TED Talks - https://www.ted.com/topics/bioethics

Michael Lewis on The Premonition-

In 2018, Michael Lewis published “The Fifth Risk,” which argued, in short, that the federal government was underprepared for a variety of disaster scenarios. Guess what his new book is about? Lewis visits the podcast this week to discuss “The Premonition,” (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/06/bo...) which recounts the initial response to the coronavirus pandemic. 

“It wasn’t just Trump,” Lewis says. “Trump made everything worse. But there had ben changes in the American government, and changes in particular at the C.D.C., that made them less and less capable of actually controlling disease and more and more like a fine academic institution that came in after the battle and tried to assess what had happened; but not equipped for actual battlefield command. The book doesn’t get to the pandemic until Page 160. The back story tells you how the story is going to play out.”