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Did you figure out the ethical problem to be solved?
Did you identify the author's primary thesis?
Did you describe the author's main arguments for that thesis?
Did you think of a few discussion questions for the class on this topic?
Did you develop your own opinion on this topic?
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Week 2: Jan 15

2.1		Smart, J. C. 1956. Extreme and Restricted Utilitarianism. The Philosophical Quarterly, 6:344-356.	Chris Maerean
2.2		Johnson, Robert. 2008. Kant's Moral Philosophy. Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy.	Bryan
2.3		Calhoun, Cheshire. 1988. Justice, Care, Gender Bias. The Journal of Philosophy, 85:451-463.	Ravi Patel

Week 3: Jan 23

3.1		Rachels, James. 1998. "Active and Passive Euthanasia." In Classic Works in Medical Ethics, Pence (Ed.), McGraw-Hill, pp. 21-27 (§1).	Diana Pak
3.2		Weisbard and Siegler. 1998. "On Killing Patients with Kindness: An Appeal for Caution." In Classic Works in Medical Ethics, Pence (Ed.), McGraw-Hill, pp. 27-35 (§2).	-
3.3		Fletcher, Joseph. 1998. "The Cognitive Criterion of Personhood." In Classic Works in Medical Ethics, Pence (Ed.), McGraw-Hill, pp. 35-45 (§3).	Matt Zhu

Week 4: Jan 30

4.1		Brock, Dan. 1998. "Voluntary Active Euthianasia." In Classic Works in Medical Ethics, Pence (Ed.), McGraw-Hill, pp. 45-67 (§4).	-
4.2		Motto, Jerome. 1998. "The Right to Suicide: A Psychiatrist's View." In Classic Works in Medical Ethics, Pence (Ed.), McGraw-Hill, pp.67-73 (§5).	Justin Lozano
4.3		Callahan, Daniel. 1998. "Physician-Assisted Dying: Self-Determination Run Amok." In Classic Works in Medical Ethics, Pence (Ed.), McGraw-Hill, pp.73-83 (§6).	Kelly Singel

Week 5: Feb 6

5.1		Rescher, Nicholas. 1998. "The Allocation of Exotic Medical Lifesaving Therapy." In Classic Works in Medical Ethics, Pence (Ed.), McGraw-Hill, pp.247-262 (§18).	Steve Goodnow
5.2		Cohen et al. 1998. "Alcoholics and Liver Transplantation." In Classic Works in Medical Ethics, Pence (Ed.), McGraw-Hill, pp.262-270 (§19).	Joe Ruffo
5.3		Ubel et al. 1998. "Rationing Failure: Ethical Lessons of Retransplantation." In Classic Works in Medical Ethics, Pence (Ed.), McGraw-Hill, pp.270-287 (§20).	Abbe Jackson

Week 6: Feb 13

6.1		Johnson et al. 2006. "Preferences of Patients." In Clinical Ethics: A Practical Approach to Ethical Decisions in Clinical Medicine, 6th ed., McGraw-Hill, pp.65-83.	Amy Surti
6.2		~~Pence, Gregory E. 2004. "Involuntary Psychiatric Commitment." In Medical Ethics: Accounts of the Cases that Shaped and Define Medical Ethics, 5th Ed, McGraw-Hill, pp.369-395 (§15).~~	-
6.3		Singer, Peter. 1998. "All Animals Are Equal." In Classic Works in Medical Ethics, Pence (Ed.), McGraw-Hill, pp.231-246 (§17).	Kelsey Jakobowski

Week 7: Feb 20

7.1		Macklin, Ruth. 1998. "Moral Issues in Human Genetics: Counseling or Control?" In Classic Works in Medical Ethics, Pence (Ed.), McGraw-Hill, pp.324-341 (§24).	Jodi Gigler
7.2		Pence, Gregory E. 2004. "Testing Adults for Genetic Disease" In Medical Ethics: Accounts of the Cases that Shaped and Define Medical Ethics, 5th Ed, McGraw-Hill, pp.395-429 (§16).	Chelsea Walter
7.3		Eddy, David M. 1982. "Probabilistic reasoning in clinical medicine: Problems and opportunities." In Judgment under uncertainty: Heuristics and biases, Kahneman et al. (Eds.), Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, pp.249-257 (§18).	Joe Porco

Week 8: Feb 27

8.1		Browner, Warren S. 2005. "Decision Analysis." In Hospital Medicine, 2nd ed., Wachter et al. (Eds.), Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, pp.43-50 (§7).	Cathleen Bressers
8.2		Pence, Gregory E. 2004. "Using One Baby For Another" (pp.276-285). In Medical Ethics: Accounts of the Cases that Shaped and Define Medical Ethics, 5th Ed, McGraw-Hill (§14).	-
8.3		Pence, Gregory E. 2004. "Using One Baby For Another" (pp.285-293). In Medical Ethics: Accounts of the Cases that Shaped and Define Medical Ethics, 5th Ed, McGraw-Hill, (§14).	Tosin Ogunkoya

Week 9: Mar 6

9.1		Thomson, Judith Jarvis. 1998. "A Defense of Abortion." In Classic Works in Medical Ethics, Pence (Ed.), McGraw-Hill, pp.153-169 (§12).	Kaitlin Farrell
9.2		Warren, Mary Anne. 1998. "On the Moral and Legal Status of Abortion." In Classic Works in Medical Ethics, Pence (Ed.), McGraw-Hill, pp.169-183 (§13).	Mari Gasparyan
9.3		Marquis, Don. 1998. "Why Abortion is Immoral." In Classic Works in Medical Ethics, Pence (Ed.), McGraw-Hill, pp.183-203 (§14).	-

Week 11: Mar 20

11.1		Fletcher, Joseph. 1998. "Ending Reproductive Roulette." In Classic Works in Medical Ethics, Pence (Ed.), McGraw-Hill, pp.118-127 (§9).	Thien Le
11.2		Krimmel, Herbert T. 1998. "The Case Against Surrogate Parenting." In Classic Works in Medical Ethics, Pence (Ed.), McGraw-Hill, pp.127-138 (§10).	Tori Wytiaz
11.3		Robertson, John A. 1998. "Surrogate Mothers: Not So Novel after All." In Classic Works in Medical Ethics, Pence (Ed.), McGraw-Hill, pp.138-153 (§11).	Erin Winfield

Week 12: Mar 27

12.1		Pence, Gregory. 2004. "Reproductive Cloning: Should We Clone Humans?" (pp.141-150). In Medical Ethics: Accounts of the Cases that Shaped and Define Medical Ethics, 5th Ed, McGraw-Hill, (§7).	Hema Kodavatiganti
12.2		Pence, Gregory. 2004. "Reproductive Cloning: Should We Clone Humans?" (pp.141-161 & 150-156). In Medical Ethics: Accounts of the Cases that Shaped and Define Medical Ethics, 5th Ed, McGraw-Hill, (§7).	Justin Ott
12.3		Kass, Leon R. 1998. "'Making Babies' Revisited."In Classic Works in Medical Ethics, Pence (Ed.), McGraw-Hill, pp.93-118 (§8).	Alli Rosenthal

Week 13: Apr 3

13.1		Lamm, Richard D. "Saint Martin of Tours in a New World of Medical Ethics." In Classic Works in Medical Ethics, Pence (Ed.), McGraw-Hill, pp.357-367 (§26).	-
13.2		Gutmann, Amy. 1998. "For and against Equal Access to Health Care." In Classic Works in Medical Ethics, Pence (Ed.), McGraw-Hill, pp.367-385 (§27).	Sade Onireti
13.3		Against the Current Health Care Bill: McArdle, Megan. 2009. Why I Oppose National Health Care	Thomas Kessler
13.4		For the Current Health Care Bill: Gawande, Atul. 2009. "Testing, Testing." In The New Yorker, Dec. 14.	-

Week 14: Apr 10

14.1		Mohr, Richard. 1998. "How Society Should Respond to AIDS." In Classic Works in Medical Ethics, Pence (Ed.), McGraw-Hill, pp.385-395 (§28).	Ben Armon
14.2		Pence, Gregory E. 2004. "Preventing the Global Spread of AIDS." In Medical Ethics: Accounts of the Cases that Shaped and Define Medical Ethics, 5th Ed, McGraw-Hill, pp.429-444 (§17).	Brittany Heikes
14.3		Singer, Peter. 1972. "Famine, Affluence, and Morality." Philosophy and Public Affairs, 1:229-243.	Thomas Crews