Philosophy 195-02
Global Bioethics
Winter 2009
Tues, Thurs 4:25 – 5:40 Professor Gopal Sreenivasan
Friedl 126 207 West Duke
Reading Schedule
January 8 Introduction.
Jan 13 Singer, “Famine, Affluence, and Morality,” Philosophy and Public Affairs 1 (1972), pp. 229-243.
Jan 15 Miller, “Beneficence, Duty, and Distance,” Philosophy and Public Affairs 32 (2004), pp. 357-383.
Jan 20 Hardin, “Living on a Lifeboat,” Bioscience (1974), pp. 36-47;
Rosenfield and Schwartz, “Population and Development -- Shifting Paradigms, Setting Goals,”
N. Engl. J. Medicine 352 (2005): 647-9.
Jan
22
Sen, “Fertility
and Coercion,”
Jan 27 Pogge, World Poverty and Human Rights (Blackwell, 2002), ch. 8.
Jan 29 No new reading.
February 3 Sreenivasan, “International Justice and Health: A Proposal,” Ethics and International Affairs 16 (2002),
pp. 81-90;
Sreenivasan, “Health and justice in our non-ideal world,” Politics, Philosophy and Economics 6 (2007): 218-36.
Feb
5
Shue, Basic Rights, second ed. (
Feb 10 Rachels, “The challenge of cultural relativism,” Elements of Moral Philosophy, 4th ed. (2003), ch. 2;
Williams, Morality (Harper and Row, 1972), pp. 20-25.
Feb 12 Kausikan, “Asia’s Different Standard,” Foreign Policy 92 (1993), pp. 24-41;
Sen, “Human Rights and Asian Values,” Morgenthau Lecture, 1997.
Feb 17
The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights (
Feb
19
Chan, “A Confucian Perspective on Human Rights for Contemporary
The East Asian Challenge for Human Rights (
First essay due.
Feb 24 No new reading.
Feb
26 The Body Hunters.
Article 1. Article 2. Article 3. Article 4. Article 5. Article 6.
March 3 Emanuel et al., “What Makes Clinical Research in Developing Countries Ethical?,” J. Infectious Diseases
189 (2004): 930-37.
March 5 No new reading.
March 9 Spring break.
March 17 Levine, “Informed consent: some challenges to the universal validity of the Western model,”
Law Medicine and Health Care 19 (1991): 207-213;
Ijsselmuiden and Faden,
“Research and informed consent in
N. Engl. J. Medicine 326 (1992): 830-834;
Gostin, “Informed Consent, Cultural Sensitivity, and
Respect for Persons,” Journal of the American Medical
Association 274 (1995): 844-45.
March 19 Love and Fost, “Ethical and Regulatory Challenges in a Randomized Controlled Trial of Adjuvant Treatment
for Breast Cancer in
March 24 Ekunwe and Kessel, “Informed Consent in the Developing
World,”
(1984): 22-4;
Préziosi et al., “Practical Experiences in Obtaining Informed Consent for a Vaccine Trial in Rural Africa,”
N. Engl. J. Medicine 336 (1997): 370-73;
Lynoe et al., “Obtaining Informed
Consent in Bangladesh,” N. Engl. J. Medicine 344 (2001): 460-61;
Fitzgerald et al., “Comprehension during informed consent in a less-developed country,” Lancet 360 (2002):
1301-02.
March 26 Freedman, “Equipoise and the Ethics of Clinical Research,” N. Engl. J. Medicine 317 (1987): 141-145;
Freedman, “Placebo-Controlled Trials and the Logic of Clinical Purpose,” IRB 12 (1990): 1-6;
Rothman and Michels, “The Continuing Unethical Use of Placebo Controls,” N. Engl. J. Medicine 331
(1994): 394-398;
Ethical and Scientific Issues,” Annals of Internal Medicine 133 (2000): 455-463.
March 31
Angell, “The
Ethics of Clinical Research in the Third World,” N. Engl. J.
Medicine 337 (1997): 847-49;
Lurie and Wolfe, “Unethical Trials of Interventions to Reduce Perinatal Transmission of the HIV in Developing
Countries,” N. Engl. J. Medicine 337 (1997):
853-856.
April 2 Crouch
and
Second essay due.
April 7 Hawkins, “Justice and Placebo Controls,” Social Theory and Practice 32 (2006): 467-96.
April 9 No class.
April
14
Wertheimer, “Exploitation,”
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy;
Glantz et al., “Research in Developing
Countries: Taking ‘Benefit’ Seriously,”
(1998): 38-42;
Shapiro and Meslin, “Ethical Issues in the Design and Conduct of Clinical Trials in Developing Countries,”
N. Engl. J. Medicine 345 (2001): 139-142.
April 16 No new reading.
April 21 El Setouhy et al., “Moral standards for research in developing countries: from ‘reasonable availability’ to
‘fair benefits’,” Hastings Center Report 34
(2004): 17-28;
End of lectures.
Assignments
There will be two 5-6 page essays in this course and a final examination.
The three assignments will each be worth 30 percent of the final grade. Participation in class is worth the final 10 percent.
Office hours
Wednesdays, 3-4 p.m., in the
March 17, 2009