Biomedical Engineering Seminar Series: Topics in Medical Ethics and Responsible Conduct in Research, Fall 2005

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Abstract:: Seminars exploring current research and topical issues in the biomedical sciences, addressed at the general theme of innovation. Seminars are organized in blocks with related content, and are presented by prominent outside speakers as well as by HST faculty members and graduate students. Each seminar block includes several semi-weekly presentations, in addition to wide-ranging discussions among speakers, faculty, and students. Discussions involve issues such as relations between presented research areas, requirements for further advances in the "state of the art", the role of enabling technologies, the responsible practice of biomedical research, and career paths in the biomedical sciences.

Subject:: Science and Technology
Grade Level:: Post-secondary
Collection:: MIT OpenCourseWare

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Fundamental Issues In Dissection: Muscle Physiology--A Case Study

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Abstract:: Issues concerning the use and/or sacrifice of living organisms in the laboratory is discussed using a traditional muscle physiology exercise as a case study. The premise is put forth that sacrificing an animal's life is the only way to successfully establish the learning situation necessary to understand the concepts being presented. Instructor responsibilities and possible student reactions to animal use and sacrifice are explored with the intent of developing a consensus statement by the workshop participants.

Subject:: Science and Technology
Grade Level:: Post-secondary
SubTopics:: Animals and Insects
Collection:: Association for Biology Laboratory Education (ABLE)

"Writing on Contemporary Issues: Social and Ethical Issues, Spring 2010"

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Abstract:: " Our best writing happens when we care passionately about our topics. That sense of passion often emerges in relation to social problems, such as poverty, homelessness, injustice, or environmental crisis, that deeply concern us. Writing offers a critical avenue of civic engagement so that we can understand issues more profoundly, communicate that understanding to the public, and advocate for change. This course seeks to provide a supportive context for students to grow significantly as writers by discovering and engaging with issues that matter to them. Writing on social issues, we can see ourselves within a tradition of authors such as Charles Dickens, Frederick Douglass, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, George Orwell, Rachel Carson, John F. Kennedy, and Martin Luther King, Jr., who have used the power of the pen to inspire social change. Throughout the semester, we will read selections from these authors, as well as contemporary writers such as Marion Wright Edelman, Alan Dershowitz, Susanna Kaysen, Jonathan Kozol, and Robert Putnam. 21W.730 also focuses on the visual power of photography and film, which combined with print media, help raise awareness of social problems and advocate for solutions. We will analyze classic documentary photographs by Lewis Hine and Jacob Riis, and will screen some more recent documentary and feature films (e.g., One Woman, One Vote, Dead Man Walking, and Girl, Interrupted). In discussing these texts, we will explore the ways in which an artist's era, biography, political perspective, and rhetorical purpose may influence the choice of topic and style in addressing audiences. During the course, we will often raise the question of how individuals from different gender, racial, generational, religious, political and economic groups may understand the same social and ethical issues."

Subject:: Humanities
Grade Level:: Post-secondary
Collection:: MIT OpenCourseWare

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