Conclude Midterm report presentations, begin Final report presentations... Martha, Aidan
1. The greatest advances in health and longevity should go to what?
2. Why was BiDil removed from the market?3. What broad consensus now obtains regarding health differences between and within groups?
4. Funding in 2014 was 50% greater for research areas including the word gene (etc.) than for those including the word _____.
5. Name an "unthinkable" medical experiment to which incarcerated individuals have been subjected.
6. Creating ethical standards for medical research is the flip-side of what "coin"?
7. Most viewers of The Constant Gardener would probably conclude what, mistakenly, about its fictional drug company?
8. Apart from being extraordinarily lucrative for the local doctors who procure test subjects in developing countries, what's another important reason why so much human research is conducted in Africa and other poor regions outside the U.S.?
9. Research in Nigeria for Pfizer was compromised by an apparently fraudulent claim involving a nonexistent what?
10. What two questions should be prerequisite to conducting research in the third world? What should precede human research anywhere in the world?
CB 7-8
- With what deep moral and spiritual questions will we have to wrestle in the coming decades, and what's the continuum conundrum? 336-7 What categories of genetic modification might we want to add to treatment and enhancement? 339
- What does the complexity of sickle-cell anemia remind us of, when we're contemplating "messing with Mother Nature"? 343
- How is the moral status of deafness different from skin color and sexual orientation? 348
- What DARPA enhancement project is already underway with Doudna's lab? 351
- What does Isaacson say about Nozick's Experience Machine thought experiment? 353=4
- What was John Rawls's position on genetic engineering? What was Nozick's response? 358
- What was Michael Sandel's argument against "playing God"? 365
- Doudna became more sympathetic to what view about gene-editing? 369
- Should Steve Jobs have thought differently? 371
- What's Feng Zhang's objection to making enhancements? 376
- What became of Isaacson's edited gene? 383
- How did James Watson cross a line? What's the Jefferson conundrum? 386, 390
DQ
- Do you have a duty to be your best self? To whom?
- Is aging a "scourge worse that smallpox"? 265
- How can emergent biomedicine be suitably tailored to public (not just personal & profitable) health?
- COMMENT: "Health is determined by far more than health care." 269
- What forms of preventive medicine/health care do you think would have the greatest constructive impact on health in the U.S.?
- Is there any rationale for ever using human "guinea pigs" for research?
- Are adequate safeguards in place to prevent future research abuses targeting prison populations?
- What do you think of South Carolina's kidney proposal 278
- What's wrong with offering incentives to imprisoned women to donate their eggs?
- Have you read and/or seen The Constant Gardener? What's your review? (If you haven't, are you mad at Marcia Angell for her spoilers)?
- What do you think of CG's Hollywood ending (in the film)?
Is aging a "scourge worse that smallpox"?
ReplyDeleteI don't think so, especially these days. Aging has always been difficult, but ethical and technological advancements have made aging in America easier. Technology and knowledge have made the physical part of aging easier, with face creams and medicines that help a person look and feel younger. Our ethical considerations for older people seem to have improved as well. The media is much kinder to older individuals. Portraying people over a certain age as sexy would have been taboo in past years, but now we relish sexy older individuals in shows like the golden bachelor or the later daters.
What's wrong with offering incentives to imprisoned women to donate their eggs?
ReplyDeleteBecause you're dealing with a population who can't gain those incentives in other ways, it is immoral to offer incentives to female prisoners for their eggs. Female prisoners might feel their only way to get perks is to donate eggs, but this could be very detrimental to a prisoner who wants to know and bond with her child that is the fruition of that egg.
COMMENT: "Health is determined by far more than health care."
ReplyDeleteThis is one of the few areas I agree with MAHA. There should be a much stronger focus on health outside of healthcare. For most people, the greatest contributors to longevity and active mobility are eating right and getting exercise. Healthcare providers often become frustrated by patients lack of commitment to do anything other than come to the doctor to address their health concerns.