Medical Ethics
What are the ethical standards that guide medicine? What forces
threaten these standards and how have they evolved over time?
Influence of Race and Social Class in
the Distribution of Healthcare
How does race and socio-economic status impact access to
healthcare? Is healthcare a basic human right that society
should provide regardless of income?
Impact of the Death of a Parent on
Children
How do families carry on after a parent dies? What are the long
term consequences on a child? How do single parents carry on,
and how do children without parents carry on?
Spiritualism in Understanding Life and
Death
The Lacks family views Henrietta as an angel who lives on helping
people. How does spiritualism help us cope with death? How does
spiritualism give us a framework for dealing with life's events?
Methodology of Medical Research
How does medical research make progress? What is used for
evidence in the creation of knowledge? How do we understand
medical "facts" and how do these facts change?
Public Health and Individual Rights
What is the balance we strike between the need for broad public
health, medical advancement and the need to protect individuals?
Should the government be able to mandate treatments or vaccines
to protect the wider population even if the individual does not
want the treatment?
Living with the Legacy of the Past
What responsibility do we hold for decisions that were made 50 or
100 years ago? When we benefit from unethical acts of the past,
what responsibility do we have to make reparations?
The Journalist and their Sources
Skloot had to earn the trust of the Lacks family in order to
tell their story. What is the ethical responsibility of the
journalist to sources? How do journalists earn the trust of
their sources and what constraints do sources place on
journalists?
Overviews
Home page of Rebecca Skloot: Contains links to
reviews, interviews and FAQs
http://rebeccaskloot.com
Q&A How Henrietta Lacks Cells Fueled Medical Breakthroughs
-- overview of issues associated with book
http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2010-03-09-lacks09_ST_N.htm
HeLa Cells 50 years on: the good the bad and the ugly
http://0-search.ebscohost.com.library.morainevalley.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=9061183&site=ehost-live
(Moraine Valley ID Required from off campus)
Gene Patents
Judge Invalidates Human Gene Patent
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/business/30gene.html?emc=eta1
After Patent on Genes is invalidated, taking stock
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/business/31gene.html?hp
Lawsuit attacks patent giving company control over genetic
test for cancer risk
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/01/AR2010030102925.html?wpisrc=nl_tech
Journalism
Society of Professional Journalists: Code of Ethics
http://www.spj.org/ethicscode.asp
Desperately Seeking Ethics: a Guide to Media Conduct
http://library.morainevalley.edu/record=b229764~S0
Medical Ethics
Code of Medical Ethics American Medical Association
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/physician-resources/medical-ethics/code-medical-ethics.shtml
Commercial Use of Human
Tissue
American Medical Association
http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/physician-resources/medical-ethics/code-medical-ethics/opinion208.shtml
Classic cases in medical ethics : accounts of the cases and
issues that define medical ethics
http://library.morainevalley.edu/record=b239772~S0
Penn Center for Bioethics
http://www.bioethics.upenn.edu/about.shtml
Medical Tourism
Medical Tourism: A New Role for Nursing?
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Ethnocentrism Is an Unacceptable
Rationale for Health Care Policy: A Critique of Transplant
Tourism Position Statements
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Health Care Disparity
Access to Health and Health Care: How Race and Ethnicity
Matter
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2008 National Healthcare Quality and
Disparities Reports Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
http://www.ahrq.gov/QUAL/qrdr08.htm
At the Front Lines of Medicine: How the
Healthcare System Alienates Doctors and Mistreats Patients ...
and What We Can Do About it
http://library.morainevalley.edu/record=b230758~S0
Health, Luck, and Justice
http://library.morainevalley.edu/record=b257767~S0
Impact of the Death of a
Parent on Children
Helping a Child or Adolescent Deal with Death
http://0-search.ebscohost.com.library.morainevalley.edu/login.aspx?direct=true&db=aph&AN=32636013&site=ehost-live
Evidence-Based Practices for Parentally
Bereaved Children and Their Families
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