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Draft syllabus for Ethics / Professional Practice
class for BME grads and senior undergrads at Yale - Spring 2011 |
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Class time: Friday, 1:30-3:20pm |
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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) |
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Fridays |
Instructor |
Class period |
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Subtopics |
Readings |
In class reading/handouts |
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read "Intuition" by A
Goodman (finish by start of second class) |
(Good place to find required books online,
click here) |
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Assigned reading for FOLLOWING week |
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1/21/2010 |
Morris |
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The Practice of Science |
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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? |
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Autism and
MMR data fraudulent, NYT 2010 |
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Denial of
Services to Homeless as Experiment? NYT 2010 |
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1/28/2010 |
Morris |
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Moral Reasoning applied to
"Intuition" and in-class case-studies |
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Ethical Theories, Ethics of
Engineering Practice |
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Guidant Case |
Excerpts from Baura,
"Engineering Ethics" ch 1 and The Guidant Ancure Endograft System |
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2/4/2010 |
Morris |
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Fraud and Self-Deception in
Science |
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Darsee Case, |
1. Excerpt from Kohn, The Darsee case |
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"Self-deception and
gullibility" by Broad and Wade |
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2/11/2010 |
Morris |
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Defects in the Practice of
Science, can scientists police themselves? |
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Feder and Stewart, The Integrity fo the Scientific Literature, Nature 327 Jan
15 p207 |
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2/18/2010 |
Morris |
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Whistle blower protection |
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Sarbanes-Oxley |
Movie: The Insider |
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2/25/2010 |
Morris |
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History of Human Experimentation |
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Tuskegee, Nazi Experiments |
Eugenics (excerpt from
"In Reckless Hands" by Nourse |
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Tuskeegee: excerpt from
"Bad Blood" by Jones |
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3/4/2010 |
Morris |
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Rules for Ethical
Experimentation with Human Subjects |
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Nuremberg Code, Belmont Report,
IRB |
Ethics
and Clinical Research, Henry Beecher NEJM June 16, 1966 p1354-60 |
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3/11/2010 |
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SPRING |
read "The Immortal Life of
Henrietta Lacks" |
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3/18/2010 |
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BREAK |
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(Good place to find required books online,
click here) |
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3/25/2010 |
Morris |
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Conflict of Interest /
Commercialization of Science |
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Articles and case studies from
special issue of Cleveland Clinic Quarterly, Suppl 2, vol 74, 2006 |
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read "Cantor's
Dilemma" |
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Case
Study 3 - Managing Innovation |
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(Good place to find required books online,
click here) |
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4/1/2010 |
Morris/guest |
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Authorship |
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4/8/2010 |
Morris/guest |
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Peer Review |
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Chapters from "Steyle and
Ethics of commincation in Science and Engineering" by Humphrey and
Holmes |
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4/15/2010 |
Morris/guest |
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Data recording/lab notebook |
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Humphrey
and Holmes, and "On Being a scientist: a guide to responsible conduct of
research" |
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4/22/2010 |
Morris/guest |
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Mentorship |
Good Friday - classes meet Mond Apr
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Chapters from "The Art of
being a scientist: a guide for students and their mentors" by Snieder
and Larner |
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4/29/2010 |
Morris/guest |
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Ownership of ideas, data |
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Revisit "Cantor's Dilemma" |
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5/6/2010 |
Final Challenge |
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"Ethics Bowl" |
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See how your Ethics training
matches up against a team of "experts' |
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Classes will be 110 min - once per week. |
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Reading will be moderate to demanding and will be
the basis for discussion |
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Speed writing exercises at beginning of each class
to work on skills |
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Possible Final projects: book reviews,
Pre-proposals... |
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Grading will be based on (very short) weekly writing
assignments, in class writing exercises, and class participation |
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