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Draft syllabus for Ethics / Professional Practice class for BME grads and senior undergrads at Yale - Spring 2011
Class time: Friday, 1:30-3:20pm
Note: First class (Jan 21. 2011) will meet in Becton 408 Subsequent classes will meet in TAC N207 (with possible return to Becton later in Spring)
Fridays Instructor Class period Subtopics Readings In class reading/handouts
      read "Intuition" by A Goodman (finish by start of second class) (Good place to find required books online, click here)  
Assigned reading for FOLLOWING week
1/21/2010 Morris 1 The Practice of Science Introduction, Case Studies, Potential for Moral Dilemmas in Science ,Philosophy Basics "Moral Reasoning in Scientific Research", Bebeau et al Mendol's Statistics - was any harm done?
Autism and MMR data fraudulent, NYT 2010
Denial of Services to Homeless as Experiment? NYT 2010
E 1/28/2010 Morris 2 Moral Reasoning applied to "Intuition" and in-class case-studies  
T     Ethical Theories, Ethics of Engineering Practice   Guidant Case Excerpts from Baura, "Engineering Ethics" ch 1 and The Guidant Ancure Endograft System
           
H 2/4/2010 Morris 3 Fraud and Self-Deception in Science Darsee Case,  1. Excerpt from Kohn, The Darsee case
"Self-deception and gullibility" by Broad and Wade
I 2/11/2010 Morris 4 Defects in the Practice of Science, can scientists police themselves?   2.  Feder and Stewart, The Integrity fo the Scientific Literature, Nature 327 Jan 15 p207
C 2/18/2010 Morris 5 Whistle blower protection  Sarbanes-Oxley Movie: The Insider
S 2/25/2010 Morris 6 History of Human Experimentation   Tuskegee, Nazi Experiments Eugenics  (excerpt from "In Reckless Hands" by Nourse
Tuskeegee: excerpt from "Bad Blood" by Jones 
3/4/2010 Morris 7 Rules for Ethical Experimentation with Human Subjects Nuremberg Code, Belmont Report, IRB Ethics and Clinical Research, Henry Beecher NEJM June 16, 1966 p1354-60
3/11/2010     SPRING read "The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks"  
3/18/2010     BREAK  
      (Good place to find required books online, click here)  
3/25/2010 Morris 8 Conflict of Interest / Commercialization of Science Articles and case studies from special issue of Cleveland Clinic Quarterly, Suppl 2, vol 74, 2006
P read "Cantor's Dilemma" Case Study 3 - Managing Innovation
R (Good place to find required books online, click here)
A 4/1/2010 Morris/guest 9 Authorship  
C 4/8/2010 Morris/guest 10 Peer Review Chapters from "Steyle and Ethics of commincation in Science and Engineering" by Humphrey and Holmes
T 4/15/2010 Morris/guest 11 Data recording/lab notebook   Humphrey and Holmes, and "On Being a scientist: a guide to responsible conduct of research" 
I 4/22/2010 Morris/guest 12 Mentorship Good Friday - classes meet Mond Apr 25 Chapters from "The Art of being a scientist: a guide for students and their mentors" by Snieder and Larner
C 4/29/2010 Morris/guest 13 Ownership of ideas, data   Revisit "Cantor's Dilemma"
E        
5/6/2010 Final Challenge 14 "Ethics Bowl" See how your Ethics training matches up against a team of "experts'
Classes will be 110 min - once per week.
Reading will be moderate to demanding and will be the basis for discussion
Speed writing exercises at beginning of each class to work on skills
Possible Final projects: book reviews, Pre-proposals...
Grading will be based on (very short) weekly writing assignments, in class writing exercises, and class participation