Topic

Casebook (& Supp.) pages / handouts

Chap. 1:
Introduction to the Study of Bioethics

1. 1-35;
2. hypo (be prepared to discuss the hypo in light of the assigned reading); also: read Course Guidelines

Chap. 2:
Human Reproduction & Birth
1. When Does Human Life Become a Person?

1. 36-51 (end of note);
2. Pub. L. No. 108-212/H.R. 1997 (Apr. 1, 2004);
3. Tx. SB 319 (2003)

1. 71-86;
2. Pub. L. No. 108-105 (Nov. 5, 2003)

1. 102-09, 111-26;
2. Tex. Fam. Code, subch. H (substitute for 109-11)
3. Supp. 5-11

     surrogacy

1. 126-47; 150-51
2. Supp. 12-16;
3. Tex. Fam. Code, subch. I (substitute for 148-50)
4. Lawrence v. Texas

1. 151-53;
2. NewsHour with Jim Lehrer;
3. Washington Post article;  
4. President's Council on Bioethics, Human Cloning and Human Dignity: An Ethical Inquiry, ch. 8 ("Policy Recommendations");
5. H.R. 534

PowerPoint presentation (HTML version)

1. Jefferson v. Griffin Spalding Co.;
2. 157-70;
3. Pemberton v. Tallahassee Mem. Reg. Med. Ctr.
4. Boston Globe, May 19, 2004, "Court Cases Revive Debate About Rights of Mothers During Childbirth," by David B. Caruso

Optional: Ruth Hubbard, The Politics of Maternal-Fetal Conflict

Ch. 3:
Legal, Social and Ethical Issues in Human Genetics
1. Introduction
2. Privacy, Confidentiality & Discrimination 
     a. Privacy

     b. Discrimination
     c. Creating DNA Databases

3. Genetic Screening

1. 187-98;
2. Supp. 18-23;
3. 42 U.S.C.A. § 241(d);
4. NIH Background Document re: Certificates of Confidentiality

Ch. 7:
Regulation of Human Research, Ethics Committees & Advisory Committees
1. Regulation of Research Upon Human Subjects
     a. Nuremberg Code & Declaration of
     Helsinki
     b. History of Research Upon Human
     Subjects in the United States

This class will consist of a 60-minute "Nova" (PBS) report about the Tuskegee syphilis study, "The Deadly Deception" (IVS 03212)

     c. Current Regulation of Research
     Upon Human Subjects in the U.S.

1. Seattle Times series (83 pp.) (large print, wide margins);
2. Bodenheimer op-ed
3. DHHS: Final guidance document: Financial Relationships and Interests in Research Involving Human Subjects, 69 Fed. Reg. 26393 (May 12, 2004)

3. The 'Dead Donor' Rule
4. Religious and Other Objections

1. 210-27
2. N.Y. Times, April 20, 1997, "Beyond Science: When Death Begins," by Gina Kolata

Same

This class will consist of a 58-minute film about "Dax" Cowart (IVS 03342).

4. The “Right to Die” - Patients Without Decisional Capacity 

Texas Advance Directives Act: living wills; be prepared to discuss the study questions in the handout

1. Tx. Advance Directives Act, §§ 166.001-.053
2. Study questions

Durable power of attorney for health care; Texas Advance Directives Act - medical power of attorney; be prepared to discuss the study questions in the handout

1. 283-88
2. Tx. Advance Directives Act §§ 166.151-.166
3. Study questions

Patients without prior directives; futile care

1. 288-305
2. Texas medical decision making statute
3. Tx. Advance Directives Act §§ 166.046 (see handout for Class 13B)

The role of the courts

1. Schiavo timeline
2. 305-24
3. Supp. 26-36

DNR orders; patients who have never been competent

1. 324-32
2. Tx. Advance Directives Act  §§ 166.081-.101

Children and newborns

1. 332-46
2. Supp. 37-43
3. Miller ex rel. Miller v. HCA

Criminal and civil liability in “right to die” cases; physician-assisted death; Physician-assisted suicide 

Euthanasia, death with dignity initiatives

1. 373-83
2. State of Oregon v. Ashcroft
3. Supp. 43-56
4. Raich v. Ashcroft

Ch. 6:
Organ Transplantation
1.  Allocation

Supp. 57-59

2.  Increasing the supply

Supp. 59-61

N.Y. Times, April 13, 1997: "Controversy Erupts Over Organ Removal," by Gina Kolata

N.Y. Times, May 23, 2004: "Tracking the Sale of a Kidney on a Path of Poverty and Hope," by Larry Rohter

Optional: the award-winning "Scenes from a Transplant," from This American Life (NPR), 5/29/98 (requires RealAudio, available for free here)