| SES # | TOPICS | KEY DATES |
|---|---|---|
| Power, Knowledge, Practice, and the Body | ||
| 1 | Course Introduction: Biopolitics and Bioethics | |
| 2 | Bio-Medical Ethics and Biological Citizenship | |
| 3 | Creating Doctors | |
| 4 | Medical Students in Malawi | |
| (Un)ethical Medical Care and Experimentation | ||
| 5 |
Medical Research and Ethical Medical Experimentation Screening: The Lynchburg Story: Eugenic Sterilization in America | Paper 1 due |
| 6 | Contemporary Approaches to Autonomy, Consent, Disclosure, and Culture | |
| 7 |
Biological Citizenship? Cancer and AIDS in Africa Screening: It's My Life | |
| 8 |
Human Subjects Research, Pharmaceuticals, and Resource-Poor Settings Screening: Uganda – Your Money Or Your Life | |
| The(Bio)Politics of Intervention | ||
| 9 |
Reproduction, Contraception, and Abortion Screening: Skin Deep: Norplant in Poor Communities and 12th & Delaware | Paper 2 due |
| 10 |
Race and Reproduction Guest Lecturer: Khiara M. Bridges, Associate Professor of Law and Associate Professor of Anthropology, Boston University | |
| 11 |
New Reproductive Technologies and International Reproductive Tourism Guest Lecturer: Burcu Mutlu | |
| 12 |
Representing Medical Humanitarianism in Film Screening: Living in Emergency: Stories of Doctors Without Borders | |
| 13 | Medical Humanitarianism Redux | Paper 3 due |