Ethics in Science - Fall 2014
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THEME: Science Ethics-General (Topics 1-2)
TOPIC 1: Ethics and Responsibility in Scientific Research and Practice
M, Aug 25 - LECTURE
W, Aug 27 - FILM: “Dear Scientists...” and “Silent Spring”
W, Sep 3 - DEBATE CLASS
REQUIRED READINGS (Copy-Center Package)
[1] Bernard E. Rollin, Science and Ethics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006): pp. 1-10 (Ch. 1); pp. 11-30 (Ch. 2); pp. 247-274 (Ch. 10)
[2] Jessica Wang, “Ethics and Social Responsibility in Science,” in Marc Rothenberg (ed.), The History of Science in the United States: An Encyclopedia (New York: Garland Publishing Inc., 2001), pp. 190-193.
TOPIC 2: Authorship, Publication, and Peer Review
M, Sep 8 - LECTURE
W, Sep 10 - TUTORIAL ON COMPOSITION of ARTICLE REVIEW / PRACTICUM ASSIGNMENTS / CITI Certificate Due
REQUIRED READINGS (Available through Blackboard)
[3] Lecture Notes[4] CITI - Collaborative Institute Training Initiative
THEME: Experimental Subjects-Animals and Humans
(Topics 3-6)
(Topics 3-6)
TOPIC 3: The Case of the Human Radiation Experiments
M, Sep 15 - FILM: “The Day after Trinity”
W, Sep 17 - LECTURE and SHORT FILMS: “The Atom and You” and "Human Radiation Experiments"
M, Sep 22 - DEBATE CLASS
REQUIRED READINGS (Copy-Center Package)
[5] Eileen Welsome, The Plutonium Files: America’s Secret Medical Experiments in the Cold War (New York: Delta-Random House Inc., 1999): pp. 1-11 (Prologue); pp. 42-54 (Ch. 4); pp. 75-81 (Ch. 7); pp. 120-123 (Ch. 12); pp. 189-228 (Ch. 19-Ch. 22); pp. 383-402 (Ch. 38); pp. 447-470 (Ch. 42-45); pp. 481-489 (Epilogue).
TOPIC 4: The Case of the Syphilis Experiments
W, Sep 24 - LECTURE
M, Sep 29 - FILMS: “The Deadly Deception” & “Tuskegee”
W, Oct 1 - DEBATE CLASS & DUE ONE-PAGE POSITION STATEMENT
REQUIRED READINGS (Copy-Center Package)
[6] James H. Jones, Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment (New York: The Free Press-Simon & Schuster Inc., 1993): pp. 1-15 (Ch. 1); pp. 113-131 (Ch. 8); pp. 151-170 (Ch. 10); pp. 171-187 (Ch. 11); pp. 206-219 (Ch. 13).
TOPIC 5: The Case of the Stanford Prison Experiment
M, Oct 6 - LECTURE and FILM: “ABC News Primetime Basic Instincts 5: The Milgram Experiment
Re-Visited”
W, Oct 8 - DEBATE CLASS
REQUIRED READINGS (Available through Blackboard)
[7] Lecture Notes
TOPIC 6: Current Practices: Animal and Human Subjects
M, Oct 13 - LECTURE
W, Oct 15 - TUTORIAL ON COMPOSITION of IRB & IACUC APPLICATION
M, Oct 20 - PANEL DISCUSSION: IRB-IACUC serving members share insights
REQUIRED READINGS (Available through Blackboard)
[8] Lecture Notes
THEME: Technological and Engineering Disasters
(Topics 7-8)
(Topics 7-8)
TOPIC 7: The Case of the Atomic Energy Commission and the Civilian Nuclear-Power
W, Oct 22 - LECTURE
M, Oct 27 - FILM – “Meltdown at Three-Mile Island” & “Three-Mile Island Revisited”
W, Oct 29 - DEBATE CLASS
REQUIRED READINGS (Copy-Center Package)
[9] Allan M. Winkler, Life Under a Cloud: American Anxiety about the Atom (Urbana, IL: University of Illinois Press, 1999): pp. 136-164 (Ch. 6)[10] J. Samuel Walker, Three Mile Island: A Nuclear Crisis in Historical Perspective (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2004): pp. 1-33 (Ch. 1 & first few pages of Ch. 2)
[11] Jerome Price, The Antinuclear Movement (Boston, MA: Twayne Publishers-G.K.Hall & Company, 1982): pp. 65-83.
[12] Ioanna Semendeferi, “Legitimating a Nuclear Critic: John Gofman, Radiation Safety, and Cancer Risks,” Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 38:2 (May 2008): pp. 259-301 (Available through Blackboard)
TOPIC 8: The Case of the Challenger Space-Shuttle
M, Nov 3 - LECTURE
W, Nov 5 - FILM: “Challenger: The Untold Story”
M, Nov 10 - DEBATE CLASS & DUE ONE-PAGE POSITION STATEMENT
REQUIRED READINGS ([13] on Copy-Center Package and [14] on Library-Reserve)
[13] Diane Vaughan, The Challenger Launch Decision: Risky Technology, Culture, and Deviance at NASA (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1997): pp. 1-32 (Ch. 1)
[14] Richard P. Feynman, “What Do You Care What Other People Think”? Further Adventures of a Curious Character (New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc., 2001): pp. 113-237 (Part 2)
THEME: Public-Health Hazards (Topics 9-10)
TOPIC 9: The Case of Tobacco
W, Nov 12 - LECTURE & SHORT FILMS: “Your Health vs. the Tobacco Industry” & “Tobacco Industry’s Campaign to Hide the Hazards of Smoking” & DUE PRACTICUM REPORT
M, Nov 17 - FILM: “Tobacco Wars” & “The Nicotine War”
W, Nov 19 - DEBATE CLASS & DUE ONE-PAGE POSITION STATEMENT
REQUIRED READINGS (Copy-Center Package)
[15] Allan Brandt, The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America (New York: Basic Books, 2007): pp. 131-157 (Ch. 5); pp. 159-207 (Ch. 6); pp. 211-239 (Ch. 7)
TOPIC 10: The Case of Lead
M, Nov 24 - LECTURE and FILM: “David Rosner and Gerald Markowitz on Toxic
Disinformation, Bill Moyers”
W, Nov 26 - NO CLASS - HOLIDAY
M, Dec 1 - FILM: “Trade Secrets”
W, Dec 3 - DEBATE CLASS
REQUIRED READINGS (Copy-Center Package)
[16] Gerard Markowitz and David Rosner, Deceit and Denial: The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003): pp. 1-11 (Introduction); pp. 12-35 (Ch. 1); pp. 36-63 (Ch. 2); pp. 108-138 (Ch. 4).
THEME: Hazardous Technological Waste
W, Dec 10 - FILM: “Into Eternity” & DUE FINAL EXAM (Take-Home Essay)
SUGGESTIONS FOR FURTHER READING
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• 1. Bernard E. Rollin, Science and Ethics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006)
• 2. Adam Briggle and Carl Mitcham, Ethics and Science: An Introduction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)
• 3. Adil E. Shamoo and David Resnik, Responsible Conduct of Research (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2009)
• 4. Ian G. Barbour, Ethics in an Age of Technology: The Gifford Lectures 1989-1991, Vol. 2 (San Francisco: Harper Collins Publishers Inc., 1993)
• 5. David Resnik, Environmental Health Ethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)
• 6. Kristin Shrader-Frechette, Ethics of Scientific Research (London: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers Inc., 1994)
• 7. Peter Singer and A. M. Viens (eds.), The Cambridge Textbook of Bioethics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2008)
• 8. Peggy Connolly, Becky Cox-White, David R. Keller, and Martin G. Leever, Ethics in Action: A Case-Based Approach (West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2009)
• 9. Marianne Talbot, Bioethics: An Introduction (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)
• 10. Deni Elliott, Ethics in the First Person: A Guide to Teaching and Learning Practical Ethics (New York: Rowman & Littlefiled, 2007)
• 11. Allegra Goodman, Intuition (New York: Dial Press, 2006)
• 12. Ibo van de Poel and Lamber Royakkers, Ethics, Technology, and Engineering: An Introduction (West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2011)
• 13. Laura Stark, Behind Closed Doors: IRBs and the Making of Ethical Research (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2012)
• 14. David Kaspar, Intuitionism (New York: Bloomsbury, 2012)
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• 15. Naomi Oreskes and Eric Conway, Merchants of Doubt: How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming (New York: Bloomsbury Press, 2010)
• 16. Sarah K. A. Pfatteicher, Lessons Amid the Rubble: An Introduction to Post-Disaster Engineering and Ethics (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010)
• 17. Kristin Shrader Frechette, What Will Work: Fighting Climate Change with Renewable Energy, Not Nuclear Power (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2011)
• 18. Dorothy Nelkin and Susan Lindee, The DNA Mystique: The Gene as a Cultural Icon (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2004)
• 19. Robert Proctor and Londa Schiebinger (eds.), Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008)
• 20. Jacob Darwin Hamblin, Poison in the Well: Radioactive Waste in the Oceans at the Dawn of the Nuclear Age (New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2008)
• 21. Robert Proctor, Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2011)
• 22. Susan Lindee, Moments of Truth in Genetic Medicine (Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 2005)
• 23. Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner, Lead Wars: The Politics of Science and the Fate of America’s Children (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2013)
• 24. Jacob Darwin Hamblin, Arming Mother Nature: The Birth of Catastrophic Environmentalism (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013)
• 25. Angela N.H. Creager, Life Atomic: A History of Radioisotopes in Science and Medicine (Chicago: Chicago University Press, 2013)
• 26. Audra J. Wolfe, Competing with the Soviets: Science, Technology, and the State in Cold War America (Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 2013)
• 27. Matthew Wisnioski, Engineers for Change: Competing Visions of Technology in 1960s America (Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2012)
• 28. Matthew H. Hersch, Inventing the American Astronaut (New York: Palgrave MacMillan, 2012)
• 29. Jessica Wang, "Physics, Emotion, and the Scientific Shelf: Merle Tuve's Cold War," Historical Studies in the Natural Sciences 42 (November 2012): 341-388
• 30. Andrew Jewett, Science, Democracy, and the American University: From the Civil War to the Cold War (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012)
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• 31. Stephen K. Henn, Business Ethics: A Case Study Approach (New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, 2009): pp. 73-88 (Ch. 6).
• 32. Philip G. Zimbardo, The Lucifer Effect: Understanding How Good People Turn Evil (New York: Random House, 2007)
• 33. Michael Pettit, The Science of Deception: Psychology and Commerce in America (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013)
• 34. Jason A. Nier, Taking Sides: Clashing Views on Controversial issues in Social Psychology (2004).
• 35. David Rosner, “Trials and Tribulations: What Happens when Historians Enter the Courtroom,” Law and Contemporary Problems 72: 1 (Winter 2009), 137-158
• 36. Thomas O. McGarity and Wendy E. Wagner, Bending Science: How Special Interests Corrupt Public Health Research (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2008)
• 37. Kristin Shrader Frechette and Naomi Oreskes, “Symmetrical Transparency in Science,” Science 332 (May 6, 2011), 663-664
