New Course Announcement!

(for Spring 2011)

Ethics & Professional Development for Biomedical Engineers & Scientists

Text Box: Who espoused the rightness of acts that produced the most good for the most people? What would Henrik Ibsen have said about the government’s stance on Climate Change? What would Immanuel Kant have said about WikiLeaks? What’s wrong with Gregor Mendel’s math and why should we care? How many college professors say they have ever fudged their data analysis? How many students have? What should you say if your thesis advisor says he’s going to be the first author on your paper? Who discovered the Pulsar? Who discovered the Opiate Receptor? Where is Tuskegee, where is Nuremberg, where is Belmont, where is Helsinki – and why are these places famous and/or infamous in the history of human experimentation? What did the hospital do with the leftovers of the blood they took from you? What’s an Internal Review Board? What is Informed Consent – and is it an oxymoron? If paying volunteers $100 to test a new drug is OK, is paying them $10,000 one hundred times as good? If your company makes a catheter that may cause death, whom you should you tell and when? What about a cigarette? Come to class and find out the answer to these and other important questions!
ENAS 503

 

Details                 Course Time:                Fridays 1:30-3:20pm

First Class:                   Jan 21, 2011

First Class Location:     Becton 408

Regular Location:          TAC N207

Instructor: E Morris

(evan.morris@yale.edu)

 

Text Box: Course Format: A seminar class to explore ethical issues, frameworks for understanding issues, and boundaries of honorable execution of science and engineering. Discussions will be based on readings from fundamental documents, historical nonfiction, novels, case studies, newspaper and magazine articles and other resource material. Lively but respectful discussion is essential. Material will focus on science and engineering with particular attention to special issues that arise in biomedical research and development because human subjects are used in the development of new technologies or in the development of new treatments for disease.

Who should enroll?

Course is open to all graduate students and upper level undergraduates.