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.
Do you have a duty to be your best self? To whom?
ReplyDeleteI think you have a duty to be your best self both for the people around you and for yourself. I think in order to do good in the world you need to first respect yourself enough to want to be happy and fulfilled in life.
COMMENT: "Health is determined by far more than health care." 269
ReplyDeleteThis is true, because health care is where we go when we have a problem with our health, and in order to maintain health you need to eat right and get enough activity. Mental health is also important both intrinsically and also because it can directly impact physical health.
Is aging a scourge worse than smallpox?
ReplyDeleteI really don't think so, because smallpox interrupts an otherwise healthy life and can kill children, but aging is expected and not going to go away at least for now, so we can better prepare for it and make peace with it.
9. Research in Nigeria for Pfizer was compromised by an apparently fraudulent claim involving a nonexistent what?
ReplyDeleteThe Pfizer Scandal in Nigeria was compromised by an apparently fraudulent claim involving a nonexistent ethics approval document.
Do you have a duty to be your best self? To whom?
ReplyDeleteYes, to yourself and those you have committed yourself to.
You get one life, and on my death bed I would rather look back and feel I was the best boyfriend, husband, father, son, friend, person I could be. I want to live a life I can feel proud of, not one where I of regret like I am living now.
How can emergent biomedicine be suitably tailored to public (not just personal & profitable) health?
ReplyDeleteEmergent biomedicine can serve public health by prioritizing equitable access and open research to ensure innovations benefit all, not just the wealthy.
Offering incentives to imprisoned women to donate their eggs is ethically problematic because it exploits a vulnerable population that may not be able to give truly voluntary.
ReplyDeleteIs aging a "scourge worse that smallpox"?
ReplyDeleteYes.
There is little worse than losing those you care about. It eats at you and the whole they leave never truly heals, you just learn to live with it.
Smallpox is a terrible disease that took many too soon, but aging takes us all. Watching the once strong parents and grandparents become little more than shells of their former selves is akin to torture.
I call my grandparents at least once a week. Hearing their voices become more feeble as time goes on, hoping that it won't be the last time I get to talk to them.
Smallpox is a bullet, terrible but fast.
Aging is being flayed, one square inch at a time.
Is there any rationale for ever using human "guinea pigs" for research?
ReplyDeleteOnly if they agreed to it.
The use of criminals is often brought up, however if there is even an inkling that they may innocent (and there always is) they should not be used without agreement.
2. BiDil was removed from the market because it showed lacking evidence that race made any difference to its effectiveness, despite it being labeled as a drug for African Americans. It’s odd to me that they didn’t simply market the drug as a medication for the general populace.
ReplyDelete5. An "unthinkable" medical experiment to which incarcerated individuals have been subjected to includes the injection of live cancer cells. Experiments of this nature lasted until relatively recently, only having been halted in the 1970s. It is shocking to me that such barbaric practices have only stopped recently.
6. Creating ethical standards for medical research and vesting internationally agreed upon human rights in every person are two sides of the same coin. It is important that human rights are solidified and understood while we work to establish the ethical standards involved.