Read the Module 13 Readings (listed as “M13: Readings”). This includes two (2) brief news videos, one (1) news article, and one (1) Ted Talk on choice. You’ll need to decide how best to read the required texts before class.
This homework/reading selection assignment asks you to take notes on what you read/see. You should have at least 2 full pages of typed notes. Headings and references do not count toward this 2 page total. They can be double-spaced, 12 pt font.
For this week’s reading, address the following:
1.Write at least two sentences for each of the following (A-C), which identifies an ethical issue for each of the following (A-C).
The ethical issue should be in the form a question about what the right thing is to do about some problem which you identify. And explains why it is an ethical issue.
To explain, you can identify biomedical ethical principles which may be violated or are in conflict with each other.
A) The monetary price of a Coronavirus vaccine
B) Vaccine equity
C) Vaccine passports
If you decided to swap out one of the additional readings, you would then identify an ethical issue on Human challenge trials and/or The creation of or marketing/sale of experimental vaccine.
2. What are at least one analogy or dis-analogy between Barry Schwartz’s (from the Ted Talk) jeans example and medical treatment?
3. Take at least the remainder of two pages of notes on the week’s readings. Be sure to use quotation marks and citation when you refer to a text word-for-word. Be sure to use citation when you refer to a text by paraphrasing (in your own words).
People takes notes in a variety of ways. You can cover main topics, points of fact, arguments, questions you have, vocabulary, etc.
1. “Should drug companies profit from Coronavirus vaccine?” PBS News Hour, 9/17/2020, 10m21s, https://www.pbs.org/video/cost-of-vaccine-1600371004/ (Links to an external site.)
2. “Vaccine Equity.” begin broadcast at 20:48 time. Report concludes at 28:11.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6Bp7Up91iw (Links to an external site.)
(from “PBS NewsHour,” Public Broadcasting Service, air date: February 24, 2021).
3. “The Ethics of ‘Vaccine Passports’.” You can listen or read the transcript of the 4-minute report:
https://www.npr.org/2021/04/06/984829952/the-ethics-of-vaccine-passports (Links to an external site.)
(from “All Things Considered,” National Public Radio, air date: April 6, 2021).
Some additional sources, on different topics. You may swap out one of these sources for one above, if you wish. : )
A. “Meet people volunteering to be exposed to COVID-19 for vaccine research.” PBS New Hour, 6/15/2020, 7m40s, https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/meet-people-volunteering-to-be-exposed-to-covid-19-for-vaccine-research (Links to an external site.)
B. “These Scientists Are Giving Themselves D.I.Y Coronavirus Vaccines.” by Heather Murphy, for The New York Times, published 09/01/2020: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/01/science/covid-19-vaccine-diy.html (Links to an external site.)
