Phil 303
Medical Ethics
Schedule of Topics and Readings
The Catholic University of America
Spring 2007
Dr. Angela McKay
IR = Intervention and
Reflection
LR = Library
Reserve
WEB = Located on my website, at: http://faculty.cua.edu/mckay/additionalreadings.htm
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Week # (beginning) |
Topics |
Readings |
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1 (Aug. 27) |
Introduction; The
possibility of doing ethics; |
Th: LR –
James Rachels, ÒThe Challenge of Cultural RelativismÓ |
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2 (Sept. 3) |
Abortion |
Th: WEB -- ÒAbortion: Making a DecisionÓ and Tacelli, ÒWere You a Zygote?Ó |
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3 (Sept. 10) |
Abortion |
Tu: IR 586-594; WEB -- Spaeman, ÒIs Every
Human Being a Person?Ó Th: IR 576-586 |
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4 (Sept. 17) |
Principle of Double Effect,
Defining Death |
Tu: LR Elizabeth Anscombe, ÒAction, Intention and
Double Effect.Ó Th: WEB -- Government Report on Death pp. 13-30 |
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5 (Sept. 24) |
Euthanasia Part I: Killing
and Letting Die |
Tu: IR – 725-729;
handout Th: Exam I |
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6 (Oct. 1) |
Euthanasia Part II: Suicide, Autonomy and
Voluntary Euthanasia |
Tu: WEB – Thomas Aquinas, Summa Theologica
Second Part of the Second Part, q.64 a.5; David Hume, ÒEssay on Suicide.Ó Th: LR – Hadley Arkes, ÒAutonomy and Quality
of LifeÓ |
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7 (Oct. 8) |
Euthanasia Part II
continued; |
Th: LR – John Arras, ÒPhysician-Assisted
Suicide: A Tragic ViewÓ |
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8 (Oct. 15) |
Euthanasia Part III: Non-Voluntary
Euthanasia |
Tu: IR 630, 646-651; Th: video
IR 639-646 Written Assignment
Due |
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9 (Oct. 22) |
Physician-Patient
Relations: Medical Research |
Tu: IR 3-25; 55-60 Th: IR
61-65; 65-69 |
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10 (Oct. 29) |
Physician-Patient Relations:
Paternalism |
Tu: IR 184-188; 194-198 Th: IR101-25; 125-133 |
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11 (Nov. 5) |
Stem Cells and Cloning |
Tu: IR 152-160 Th: IR 271-276; 312-316; 318-320 |
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12 (Nov. 12) |
Genetic Control |
Tu: IR 277-309; Th: Exam II |
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13 (Nov. 19) |
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Tu: IR 320-333; Th: Thanksgiving Break |
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14 (Nov. 26) |
Allocation of Resources |
Tu: IR
455-75; 477-483 Th: IR 484-487; 489-491 |
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15 (Dec. 3) |
Allocation of Resources |
Tu: IR
510-530 Th: open |