Law & medicine: bioethics

Rescheduling note:

• There will be NO CLASS on Monday, July 9, or Wednesday, July 18.
  
• We will MAKE UP the above classes on two Tuesdays: June 12 and 26, at 7:50 p.m. in Room 100 Florence.

A. Overview

Bioethics is a three-hour course that examines legal and ethical aspects of death and dying, reproduction, human experimentation, organ transplantation, and selected everyday clinical situations. 

B. First Assignment (May 30)

• Pick up Course Guidelines, Syllabus, and Handouts in Faculty Reception Area or from the course web site.
• Bring calendar to discuss scheduling of make-up class.
• Read for class discussion:
  • Handouts: (1) Gunther & Diekma, "Attenuating Growth in Children with Profound Developmental Disability," and (2) Brosco & Feudtner, "Growth Attenuation"
  • Casebook pp. 1-30