Spring semester CSEP Journal Club meetings
The has announced the schedule and topics for its bi-weekly journal club meetings. All meetings will be held on Wednesdays in 205 Hermann Hall at 11:25 a.m.
In the first half of the semester, the group will examine the relationships between three foundational issues in bioethics, which include the aims of bioethics, the methods of bioethics, and ownership of (i.e., who should have the final say in) bioethics.
The second half of the semester will begin with an article on two major question at the boundary of bioethics and disability studies: What is the difference between normal and abnormal functioning, and what is the
distinction between medical treatment and enhancement? The club will then discuss two issues to which these major questions can be applied: addiction and ADHD.
The reading schedule is as follows:
- 2/3: Jeremy Garrett, 鈥淭wo Agendas for Bioethics: Critique and Integration鈥
- 2/17: Ethical Case Deliberation on the Ward: A Comparison of Four Methods
- 3/2: Jonathan Moreno, 鈥淒eciding Together: Bioethics and Moral Consensus鈥
- 3/23: Norman Daniels, 鈥淣ormal Functioning and the Treatment-Enhancement Distinction鈥
- 4/6: Hall, Carter, and Morley, 鈥淎ddiction, Neuroscience, and Ethics鈥
- 4/20: Ilina Singh, 鈥淏eyond Polemics: Science and Ethics of ADHD鈥 (2008).
Please email Kelly Laas for copies of the articles.
