Class Schedule:
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Date |
Topic |
Required readings | Recommended |
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Thursday 1/27 |
Introduction |
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Tuesday 2/1 |
What is Medical Ethics? Method and Logic |
Cases 123-151 | What is Philosophy / Feldman (pdf) |
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Thursday 2/3 |
Logic (cont.)
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Cases 123-151 (re-read) |
2) Klement - logic lecture notes (pdf) 3) Roe v. Wade |
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Tuesday 2/8 |
Abortion: The Kenneth Edelin Case |
1) cases 1-25 |
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Thursday 2/10 |
RAJFA (pdf) | Jim Pryor's Guidelines on Reading Philosophy | |
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Tuesday 2/15 |
A Defense of Abortion / Thompson |
Works 153-168 | |
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Thursday 2/17 |
Why Abortion is Immoral / Marquis |
Works 183-200 | |
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Tuesday 2/22 |
Letting Impaired Newborns Die: Baby Jane Doe |
Cases 216-243 | polls on abortion |
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Thursday 2/24 |
Extracting and Evaluating Arguments on Abortion |
1) Opinion Editorial: Abortion Providers Are No Strangers To Terrorism | |
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Tuesday 3/1 |
Class canceled |
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Thursday 3/3 |
Exam unit 1 (NEW DATE!!!) |
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Tuesday 3/8 |
A Death of One's own (documentary) | Bill Moyers' Film |
Sixth Annual
Report on Oregon's Death with Dignity Act March 10, 2004 |
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Thursday 3/10 |
Oregon's Legalization |
Cases 89-120 | |
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Tuesday 3/15 |
No Class - Spring Break |
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Thursday 3/17 |
No Class - Spring Break |
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Tuesday 3/22 |
Playing God: A Problem for Physician Assisted Suicide? / Fred Feldman (pdf) |
PG | |
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Thursday 3/24 |
Active and Passive Euthanasia / Rachels |
Works 21-26 | |
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Tuesday 3/29 |
On Killing Patients with Kindness: An Appeal for Caution /Weisbard & Siegler |
Works 27-34 | Voluntary Active Euthanasia / Brock (Works 45-66) |
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Thursday 3/31 |
The Terri Schiavo Case |
Karen Quinlan and Nancy Cruzan (Cases 29-56) | |
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Tuesday 4/5 |
review session |
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Thursday 4/7 |
Exam Unit 2 | ||
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Tuesday 4/12 |
The Case for Involuntary Hospitalization of the Mentally Ill |
Works 287-298 | |
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Thursday 4/14 |
Involuntary Mental Hospitalization: A Crime against Humanity |
Works 299-311 | |
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Tuesday 4/19 |
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Thursday 4/21 |
No Class – Univ. Monday Schedule |
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Tuesday 4/26 |
Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment: Joyce Brown |
Cases 369-394 | |
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Thursday 4/28 |
All Animals are Equal / Singer |
Works 231-243 | Cases 247-269 |
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Tuesday 5/3 |
TSL | Cases 330-344 | |
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Thursday 5/5 |
Alcoholics and Liver Transplantation | Works 262-269 | |
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Tuesday 5/10 |
CitAoA | ||
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Thursday 5/12 |
review session |