Weekly academic essays: Starting with week two, May 31, a short (800 words) essay that reflects upon the week’s assigned readings. The essays are to be submitted on Canvas prior to the beginning of each class (together 45% of the final grade).
The intent of the weekly academic essays is to assure that you and your fellow students will come prepared to actively participate in the class. Appropriate content to include in the essays are:
• How do the readings assigned for this week fit in with the course overall? How do they relate to material already covered?
• Did something confirm what you already knew, believed, or suspected? What was the source of the information you brought to the material? How do the readings relate to your own life experience and background?
• Was anything surprising to you? Why?
• Was anything completely new to you? Does this build on what you already knew, or does it challenge strongly held beliefs? Does it make a difference? Why?
• What questions did the readings raise for you that you would like to see discussed in class? Can you propose some possible answers to your questions based on what you already know?
In their essays, students will properly reference the reading materials and sources using proper APA citations
Tuesday, August 9, 2021 – WEEK TWELVE: Medicine, Socialized and not. From
Private to Group Practice. Medical Ethics.
Read as preparation for class discussion:
Porter. Greatest Benefit. Pp. 628-718. “Medicine, State, and Society,”
“Medicine and the People,” and “The Past, the Present and the
Future”
“Hearings before the Senate Subcommittee on Health: Quality of Health
Care—Human Experimentation,” pp 330-340 in Medicine & Western
Civilization.
Pius XII. “The Prolongation of Life,” pp 417-420 in Medicine & Western
Civilization.
“A Definition of Irreversible Coma: Report of the Ad Hoc Committee of the
Harvard Medical School to Examine the Definition of Brain Death,”
pp 421-426 in Medicine & Western Civilization.
Write and submit academic essay
